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On the evening of March 18, after 11:00 pm, I was walking home from the Friendship Heights metro west along Western Avenue, about 1.5 blocks from the metro, when I heard footsteps behind me and then felt a hand up my skirt touching me on my genitals. The man, an African American in his 20s-30s […]

I was walking home from studying at the GWU library and a man was standing in front of Trader Joe’s on my way home. I was across the street and when he saw me, he started walking across the street. Naturally feeling uncomfortable I crossed toward Trader Joe’s to get far away from him and […]

So this is actually not an example of harassment, but a reminder, to me at least, that being polite about it gets you nowhere. I live on a block between the metro and the bars so late at night there are a lot of drunk people walking by. I was out walking my dog tonight […]

About 5 years ago I was leaving a bar in Adams Morgan with a couple of female coworkers. We had a few drinks and were dancing then decided to go to another bar just a block or two away. Admittedly, Adams Morgan is a breeding ground for college-aged or just out of college ex-frat boys […]

I wanted an outlet to reach out to warn other Metro riders about a repeat Metro experience where the same man was rubbing himself against young women. I’ve encountered him twice now. Both times he boarded the Yellow Line toward Huntington at L’Enfant station and gets on the last car. He gets off at the […]