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I usually try to be friendly with cab drivers but not overly familiar, but on this particular occasion I was horrified by my driver’s behaviour. I was taking a cab up to Cleveland park from Capitol Hill, a couple of blocks into the ride I noticed (belatedly) that the light was on in the cab. […]

Cross posted on Stop Street Harassment: I walked out on Columbia Road in Adams Morgan in DC Saturday night at about 9:30 p.m. I was on my cell phone text messaging a friend when a woman in a wheel chair violently wheeled herself up to about I’d say four feet in front of me grunting […]

This was 3 years ago now but it is still one of the worst things that happened to me in DC (which, relative to what other people experience, is not so bad I know). The train was full of seated people and only a few people were standing on the ends, around rush hour time. […]

I was biking into work at 8:30am this morning, wearing gym shorts & a ratty t-shirt. I turned left onto 19th (a quieter, not busy street) from Columbia Road. A guy on a moped was coming from the opposite direction on Columbia and turned right onto 19th at about the same time that I turned. […]

I will finally be out of this neighborhood I have lived in for one and a half years (too long!), to a place where street harassment is minimal to nonexistent (so far). I am counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to when I live in an environment where I can walk from my […]