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Spring in DC is not spring in DC without the rough sounds of construction. And I suppose, it’s also not spring without another cat call. It happens so often that I usually take little note, but this time there were just too many in a row, like a cat call line-up. I was walking with […]

A few evenings ago around 8 or 9pm, I was getting off the bus at Georgia and Irving, and was walking east on Irving back to my house. I was just a few houses away, and a man came up behind me, and kept saying, “hey beautiful. hey beautiful. You have an extra cigarette for […]

On Columbia Rd NW, just west of the intersection with Georgia Ave, I have been harassed multiple times by a group of men on the sidewalk or on the lawn and porch of a house on the north side of the road. 10-20 of them seem to be there at all hours of the day […]

I was on my way to Eastern Market Station after a particularly stressful day at work around 5pm. On my way to the metro stop, I was listening to my ipod and smoking a cigarette when I crossed paths with a group of 5-6 teenage boys. As I was approaching them, instinctively I knew that […]

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 […]