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Location:  Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Street harassment of any kind is a daily experience for me, but this incident that happened a few weeks ago was particularly disturbing. I was walking by the Rhode Island Avenue metro station when a man, probably a teenager or in his early 20s, asked if […]

My girlfriend and I were sitting in the back of the bus. Two other women were across from us and another along the back row of seats. A guy had been talking loudly at the back door and then came and sat down by one of the seats. He started by telling one of the […]

I’m female born and female identified. Maybe it’s my queerness that makes me so intensely sensitive to harassment, because I absolutely DESPISE the idea that I am on this earth for men, for male consumption, to entertain the male gaze. I deliberately dress in shapeless clothes during the day, and only bust out the super […]

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 […]

Not even two seconds out of the house this morning, a man in a utility vehicle for Castle Sprinkler and Alarm wolf whistles at me. It sounded exactly like a wolf whistle from a Tom & Jerry cartoon. When I turned around, he smiled and waved at me. I took down his license plates: MD […]