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So the metro was a disaster today and I was an hour late to work – -I work in Rosslyn, so I had to get off at farragut north and walk to farragut west. As I walk into the station there is a newspaper guy passing out papers. He corners me and asked if I […]

A few months ago, I was with some friends heading home after a party. We were at the SW Waterfront Metro waiting for a train. We were just standing there chatting when this young guy walked past us, turned all the way back around, leered, and then started telling us how great he thought we […]

I am a guy and I honestly have never had to think about being sexually harassed before, as smug as that sounds. On 9/3 at Jazz in the Garden, I had just gotten a pitcher of beer and I was chatting it up with my girlfriend and her friend at the Pavilion Café. All three […]

I was walking from the bus stop to my house, and I heard someone yelling. All of a sudden this man on a bike rode up behind me and yelled “Oh I wanna take a bite out of that,” and I jumped because I was so startled. He noticed and he slowed down and said […]

Actually, this was one of my more positive street harassment experiences (as if! but I say that because I felt good about how I responded–even though I did it without thinking). I was walking east on T St., away from Dupont Circle, thinking my thoughts, when I realized two men across the street were yelling […]