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Location:  14th & U Street NW – Outside McDonalds Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I had been getting a lot of guys calling out to me all night and I was tired of it. I was with 3 friends waiting for a cab when a man called out to my friend from inside his car something along the […]

Location: 9:30 Club, U Street Corridor Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) My partner experiences street harassment on regular basis no matter the time of the day this evening wasn’t any different. We attended a concert at the 9:30 Club with a group of friends and everything was great until a guy that was pretty intoxicated found his way […]

Location: 18th St & U st, NW Time:  Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) At about 7 am on Friday morning I was on U street, approaching 18th, heading west, on a bikeshare bike, when I heard a loud noise. I looked ahead of me and saw a little smoke in the middle of the right turn lane. It […]

Walking down 14th one evening to meet friends, I passed a group of men headed in the opposite direction. I could feel them looking at me before crossing paths, and had already braced myself for an inappropriate comment. You know how you can tell when the way someone is looking at you is inappropriate and […]

I was out with a guy I was casually dating, going to the liquor store to bring some drinks back to a party after dark. A group of four guys outside the store were complimenting my friend on his choice of a girl. They were saying that he’d better marry me, because I was so […]