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Once a week, I work at a basement boutique on U street. We don’t have an official store sign, so my bosses created a banner that we put up and take down as we need to. Last week after we had closed the store, I was standing over our stairs trying to figure out how […]

I was walking home around 4:45 p.m. I’m never home at this time so I’m not sure if my experience was typical or not. I walked past a group of young guys hanging out outside the liquor store at the corner of 14th and Florida NW. I wasn’t going to pay attention to them until […]

Interestingly enough, my experience with harassment was not completely negative. That is to say, the actual harassing was extremely frustrating, but the way my friend and I responded to it made the rest of my day. I am a high school junior who attends an all girls school in the DC area. We have a […]

I was walking out of my house to go to work – it was early and the weekly trash collection was that day. As I turned onto the sidewalk from my walkway, the garbage truck pulled up, the man collecting my trash stepped off, and in a very casual way said to me, “I’ve always […]

Earlier in the summer, I was walking down 13th Street towards the metro mid-morning, dressed professionally and conservatively, when two young men approached me mid-block between V and W with nobody else around. I typically make eye contact and say good morning when I am walking in this neighborhood, as it is the neighborhood I […]