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I know what happened to my best friend and I was an act of harassment. I know that the real cause for it was sexual. I also know that most people would just brush it off. Two weeks ago my best friend and I were shopping in Adams Morgan. She had seen a dress she […]

While out walking between 10:30 am and 11:30 am on Monday, January 18th a man exposed himself to me twice. The first incident occurred while I was walking into the park as I proceeded under the 16th Street bridge a man was sitting on a bicycle and as he watched me go by he was […]

Cross posted from Stop Street Harassment: In November of 2007 I accompanied my dad on a business trip to DC because he had a companion ticket and I’d never been to DC before. On my last night there, I was at the Pentagon City Mall when this man approached me and started trying to ‘pick […]

Here’s a bystander story. Last night I was riding the Metro home, and it was crowded. A young woman went to sit next to a guy in a suit, and she lost her balance when the train started to move and kind of fell on top of the guy. She composes herself and the guy […]

I’m so glad to have find this site today. I’ve experienced harassment on the streets of several cities, but I had a particularly disconcerting run-in last night. I was riding the bus home from a friend’s house last night around 10pm. I get off at U and 14th, and even at that hour I don’t […]