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A rape on a SEPTA train forced a conversation about how to disrupt assault. Here’s what experts say you should do.

From WHYY: After a rape on a SEPTA train made national headlines, Toby Fraser felt himself asking a lot of questions.

Fraser manages educational programming for Philadelphia’s Lutheran Settlement House and organizes events for a violence prevention initiative that works with men and people who identify as masculine.

Immediately, he dove into a rabbit hole of media coverage of the sexual assault, all the while watching his phone blow up with texts from horrified coworkers and others he knows from his work.

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