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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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Diagnosing Groping: New Frotteur Rules Require Three Nonconsensual Rubs
Yesterday, the American Psychological Association released a set of proposed revisions to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, the document that sets guidelines for psychiatric...
View ArticleGroping Victim: A Prompt Assault Report Does Not Guarantee A Prompt Police...
In response to the commenter who thought that her story perpetuated the "myth" that sexual assault victims are too traumatized to report their assaults promptly to police, Fairfax groping victim Emily...
View ArticleVictim Reports “Forcible Fondling” In GWU Library
Over the past school year, the campus of the George Washington University has experienced several public sexual assaults. Back in September, a University of Maryland student entered a G.W. dorm and...
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...
View ArticleGroping, Sexual Assault Policies and the Hypersexualization of College Students
Last week, Wendy Kaminer lambasted Duke University's new sexual assault policy, which is centered upon the idea that "consent is an affirmative decision to engage in mutually acceptable sexual activity...
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When Stalking and Groping Is Hilarious
Did you read this Sexist story about a woman who was cornered in an empty parking garage late at night, forced to surrender her phone number, and then sexually assaulted by a stranger, and wonder,...
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Miss D.C. Meets Grope With Body Slam
This year, I wrote a series about public sexual assaults in the District, and how victims respond to them. I separated typical victim responses into four categories: freezing, talking back, fighting...
View ArticleMiss D.C. Talks Groping; NBC 4 Is Shocked and Confused
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/video. Miss D.C. Jen Corey discusses defending herself against gropers with body-slams and head-locks on NBC4. AWESOME. She also makes some really...
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Miss D.C. Jen Corey on Groping, Cat-Calling, and Smack-Downs
Some consensual touching at the 2010 Capital Pride Parade This weekend, Miss D.C. 2009 Jen Corey graciously agreed to march alongside City Paper at the 2010 Capital Pride Parade. Along with her...
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D.C.’s Street Harassment Confrontation Gap
Five years ago, Emily May started up Holla Back New York City as a "little blog" for friends to share their experiences with sexual harassment on the streets of New York. Back then, May was...
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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Examiner Called On Sexual Assault Coverage, Cites Intern Defense
Last month, Washington Examiner gossip columnists Tara Palmeri and Nikki Schwab drafted a hot little item about Miss D.C. 2009 Jen Corey "kicking some tail at the local bars." Corey, the gossips...
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Examiner‘s Solution to Bad Sexual Assault Reporting: Victim-Blame!
After Miss D.C. 2009 Jen Corey's claim that the Washington Examiner mischaracterized her sexual assault as a simple "bar fight," reporter Tara Palmeri first defended herself by claiming she doesn't...
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The Morning After: Pocket Full of Rubbers Edition
* Some douchebag slapped the ass of a local female DJ; she recounts her experience on Holla Back DC: [I] was doing a gig in a bar in Adams Morgan when an older guy came into the DJ booth . . .The guy...
View ArticleFraternal Order of Police Calls for Investigation into D.C. Police Sexual...
The Fraternal Order of Police—representing D.C.'s 3600 police officers, detectives, and sergeants—has called for an investigation into the D.C. police department's reporting of sexual assault. "The...
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