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I was sitting on my bike at the intersection of M & 23, waiting for the light to change. A tall man dressed in a blue suit holding an expandable file-folder walked up to the curb on my right, stopping about two feet from me – “Looking good on that bike, that’s right, you sit […]

Yesterday this happened: Today, as I was emerging from the Court House Metro Station, a man got uncomfortably close behind me on the escalator. I had headphones on, but even so, I heard the familiar fake shutter-click of an obnoxious phone camera, then felt the unmistakable grab of a stranger’s hand under my skirt. I […]

My friend and I were walking to the Dupont Metro Station last weekend. It was around 6 PM, while the sun was still out. Before we approached the station, we came across two men (on bicycles). They had just turned on to the same street and headed in our direction. After a few seconds of […]

As I was walking home the other day after parking my car near my apartment, I passed two men walking the opposite direction on the sidewalk. One of them looked me up and down and then said, “Hi, baby. How are you?” I ignored him and just kept walking past, at which he stopped, turned […]

I was walking to Target this afternoon and a homeless man walked up to me, blocking my path. He told me he wanted to eat me up. He said, “Girl, you thick and juicy like a cheeseburger.” Then he did some kind of bizarre dance, presumably to charm me into allowing him to eat me […]