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Location: Starbucks at Dupont Unit and Connecticut NW Time:  Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was sitting in the upstairs of Starbucks when a man came in who had verbally harassed and followed me before. He waited for a seat next to me to open and then he sat down, pulled the chair closer to be directly facing […]

Location: Walking from Dupont to Howard U Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Walking home from my job in Dupont, I was harassed in varying degrees of lewdness no less than six times — and that’s just what I noticed with my headphones in. Everything from gross sound effects to people singing songs about my ass as I walk by to […]

On Sunday, Collective Action for Safe Spaces took to the streets — or at least the Circle — to help kick off the Second Annual Meet Us On The Street: International Anti-Street Harassment Week (April 7-13). Joined by Stop Street Harassment, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture (which rallied lots of participation for its new photo project on consent), the DC Rape Crisis […]

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 – Blue and Red Lines (Franconia to Dupont); Dupont Area; Cobalt DC Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Got on train at Franconia around 10:30pm on Saturday January 19 and throughout the ride to Metro Center, got undressed with the eyes several times by two men. Upon reaching Metro Center, one of them got up and grabbed the […]