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Cross posted from Stop Street Harassment Blog: I witnessed two guys who were walking behind a youngish women in leggings and high heeled boots and checking her out, then walking quickly to the side of her, presumably to check out her face. After seeing her face, the two of them walked more slowly to end […]

Cross posted from Two-Timing the Cosmos: [Scene: Waiting for light at 14th and U] Old man sidles up to me: “Hey baby. It’s no coincidence the sun just came out. I mean it, you’re so beautiful. And that’s no line, sometimes a girl just needs to hear it…” Me: “Yeah. Don’t you just hate when […]

This isn’t actually a story of harassment, but I thought it might be nice to share some good news. A couple of months ago, I was walking back from the Metro and two different men (that is, at different places) stopped to say “That’s a very nice dress” and “I like your dress.” No hassling, […]

This morning, I was biking to work and I hit the intersection at Columbia and Connecticut Ave NW. There are three lanes at this intersection. One is right turn only, one is to go straight or turn left, and the last is to turn left only. I came up alongside the second lane because I […]

This was a few years ago so I’m not sure if it is even relevant but, I still think about it all the time. It was winter 2004 (? could have been 2005) and I was on the train (red line) riding from Silver Spring station to Van Ness. When I boarded the train, there […]