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I was walking across the street and this car started to turn while I was still in the crosswalk. He came up really close to me, to the point where I thought he was going to hit me. Instead, he rolled down his window and yelled, “Hey sexy!” and then drove off very quickly — […]

I was walking along K Street near the White House at lunchtime on a work day and a man was standing in the middle of the sidewalk. As I approached, I saw him harassing a woman–I thought just for change. She passed me and then I got closer to him. He blocked my path and […]

It was my second day in DC. I was already frustrated, having moved to a new city with no job and no functioning computer. That’s why I was in Columbia Heights. I had just dropped of my laptop at Best Buy, and was walking to back to the metro. As I approached the metro stop, […]

As I’m walking towards the crosswalk to cross the street, the light changes, not in my favor. Two men are standing there (one older than the other). The older man says, “Excuse me Ms., my friend said you look like a teenager, how old are you?” I smile and say “I’m not in my teens,” […]

These stories are from when I first moved to the DC area over five years ago. The first year I lived here I lived in Alexandria. This was before I knew how to truly stand up to harassers and I wasn’t used to being harassed on a frequent basis. In the first case, I was […]