We just got word of two gender based public sexual attacks in Georgetown thanks to DCist, both individuals were attacked based on their sexual orientation. From DCist The Georgetown University Department of Public Safety has the details on the second bias-related assault in the last few days near the school. Early this morning, a Georgetown […]
My friend and I were walking back from the Kennedy Center up New Hampshire the night before Halloween. We were coming from the opera and both wearing the clothes we’d worn to the office that day with coats over – we weren’t dressed up at all. We passed a rotund guy with […]
Last Thursday, around 8:30pm, I was walking up 14th Street (A.K.A Harassment Hill) in order to go to my boyfriend’s house. Around Florida and 14th a man who I have been harassed by before as well as witness him harass other women started yelling at me from the opposite side of the street. This kept […]
Let it be known that I am the biggest male cheerleader (no pun intended) for this blog, and I fully support its aims. I read it regularly and find it to be empowering not just to women, but for the community at-large. We want to create a culture of community that practices full inclusion and […]
Yesterday I was crossing the street coming home from the drugstore, and this guy in a van was trying to be slick and run a red light by creeping up slowly. This is the street I was trying to cross so I could’ve been hit. I shook my finger at him and started yelling […]