Location: Georgia Avenue & Quincy Street NW (Petworth) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) On a Sunday afternoon, I was on my way home from yoga. I’d realized that I’d left my keys inside my apartment (that I share with roommates who were home at the time, luckily). After getting off Metro at the Petworth stop, I was walking up […]
Location: 14th & Spring Rd. (Columbia Heights) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) After a few days of battling a cough, I was tired. Tired of work, tired of coughing every time I laughed, and definitely tired of getting street harassed. So when this old man said, “Damn, baby, is that ALL you’re wearing?” (mind you, I was wearing […]
Location: Taylor St. & Harewood Rd NE Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Some guy started trying to talk to me. I was tired so I didn’t respond. He then started yelling, “Fuck you, bitch!” over and over again. Submitted on 3/13/13 by Anonymous Do you have a personal experience with gender-based public sexual harassment or assault? Submit […]
Location: 17th and Qst NW (Dupont) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Walking back from Safeway down 17th Street, a man catcalls me. For a moment, I consider ignoring it as I always do (I tend to freeze up like a deer in the headlights – as happened to me when I was harassed on 18th and Q not […]
Location: Metro: Yellow line, between Shaw & Gallery Place Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I boarded the yellow line to Huntington at Columbia Heights metro station a little after 6pm. I was seated at one end of the car reading a book. A man, 40s to 50s, wearing sun glasses, started walking over to me while the […]