3 personal safety tips to help you protect yourself on a night out
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It can be fun to go out on the town at night — to clubs, restaurants, bars and concerts. But for me and my friends, who are mostly women in our early 20s, it can also be scary.
Most of us have been catcalled on the street while walking home, grabbed at while moving through a crowd or pressured into having another drink or staying out later than we'd like.
Because of concerns like these, it can be hard to enjoy going out. In fact, studies have shown that popular nightlife destinations like bars and clubs aren't the safest places to hang — especially for women and girls. According to a 2017 study published in the journal Violence Against Women, this group frequently experiences unwanted sexual touching and persistent advances in these settings.
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The burden shouldn't be on people like me, my friends and others in marginalized communities to protect ourselves — but depending on who you are and what you've experienced, you might feel like you do
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