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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...
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How Would Copenhagen’s Flirtatious Bus “Love Seats” Work In D.C.?
In Washington D.C., a great deal of sexual harassment is reported within the city's public transit system. But over in Copenhagen, one Danish bus company is concerned that there may be too few...
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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...
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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