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I was leaving a work function to get on my scooter when a middle aged man came up to me and said hello and asked me about my scooter. I’m used to getting a lot of comments and questions about the scooter, so I didn’t immediately tell him to back off. I started the process […]

two coworkers and i were on the metro heading to a hearing on the hill (to listen in) on international vawa (violence against women act). it was tax day (yay, paying taxes is patriotic!) and a bunch of “tea party” (i like their original name better) folks hopped on with their signs and buttons. one […]

I’ve been harassed on the street many times since moving to DC this fall, but one incident that sticks out in my mind happened in front of the Chop’t restaurant on 12th St. near the intersection with H. It was in September, I had just gotten a salad at Chop’t and had taken it outside […]

While walking to Dupont with two colleagues — S, a woman, and K, a man — a gaggle of various express buses blocked the path across H Street NW from 14th Street. My colleagues and I, attempting to hold a conversation and navigate the crowded intersection, became caught up in the confusion and I, in […]

This was 3 years ago now but it is still one of the worst things that happened to me in DC (which, relative to what other people experience, is not so bad I know). The train was full of seated people and only a few people were standing on the ends, around rush hour time. […]