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I was waiting to cross the street, watching for oncoming cars to see when I could scoot across. A ’90s-model green SUV was about to pass me, then I’d be all clear. The dude driving the green SUV, who hadn’t been looking at the road until he was already turning, suddenly looked right at me […]

Location: Kansas Ave. between Blair Rd. and 3rd St., NW (Petworth) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30P-7:30P) Around 6pm on Saturday, June 25, I was riding my bike in the bike lane along Kansas Avenue on my way to Columbia Heights from Takoma. As I passed through the intersection of Kansas Ave. and Blair Rd., NW, a car […]

After driving home from work this evening, I parked my car and started walking toward my building, which about 75 – 100 yards away. A man approached me and started making sexual references about various body parts (i.e. breasts, butt, and “p—y”) and “what [he] would love to do with [me]”, as I approached my […]

I was walking home from visiting a friend at her bartending job and had dropped most of my usual guard after making it through the madness of Adams Morgan. I heard a polite “excuse me” coming from a car that out of the corner of my eye seemed to be braking for a stop light. […]

Two Fridays ago, I was headed south from Columbia Heights to the Convention Center. Shortly after I boarded, I realized a group of two girls and two guys (about 18-25 years old) were harassing a trans woman who was in the seat nearest the driver. They were calling her disgusting, telling her she should be […]