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March Is Public Transit Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Local anti-sexual harassment resource Holla Back D.C. has declared March "Public Transit Awareness Month" in order to "focus on public sexual harassment on our public transportation in the DC metro...
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“I’m Claimed By This Pervert”: One Woman Who Reported Her Grope
Emily Ruskowski isn’t thinking of much as she sits on a concrete bench at the Foggy Bottom Metro stop on a late-summer night in 2009. In a station crowded with loitering commuters, one man makes his...
View ArticleHolla Back DC and the District’s Sexual Harassment Reporting Problem
Holla Back DC—a blog chronicling street harassment in the District–-turns a year old this month. (Make a wish!). One of the reasons that Holla Back has been such a valuable resource over the past year...
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Sexual Harassment By Men In Uniform
This week, local street harassment blog Holla Back DC recorded two incidents of street harassment by local firefighters. In the year that Holla Back has been publicizing sexual harassment in the...
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Ads Encourage D.C. Metro “Love”
This odd ad for Arlington's "Car-Free Diet" initiative, currently appearing in D.C.-area Metro stations, encourages Metro riders to tone up—and get flirting!—on their commutes. Love-themed...
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Metro Sexual: When Transit Employees Harass
According to Metro Transit Police, the sexual comments a bus driver made toward his 16-year-old passenger weren’t explicit enough. At 7:21 a.m. on Friday May 14, according to a report filed with...
View ArticleThe Groper’s Path of Least Resistance
It is a principle of public sexual assault that gropers will follow the path of least resistance. They will gravitate toward situations where their activities will not be discovered, and their assaults...
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