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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 […]

Walking home, a man on the porch said, “Good morning, Beautiful.” I responded flatly, “I don’t appreciate that.” He was surprised and I kept walking. One block away, as I was at my door, he rode by on his bike and yelled, “Fuck you, you stuck up bitch!” I yelled back, “Sir, can I explain?” […]

Last evening, I was walking to meet friends for dinner on 14th Street. As I rounded the corner from U St, headed south, I saw a group of men hanging out on the right. One of them seemed to be chasing after another, about to throw something, while a third man was yelling at second, […]

It’s early in the morning and I’m heading to work. As I go up the escalator at the Eastern Market metro a man says “good morning” to me and I say, “good morning” back. He then goes on to say, “I just want to tell you that you have the most beautiful ass I have […]

I get sexually harassed on a daily basis in DC, so for me to post here regularly would get laborious. But I recently had one of the worst episodes so far, and I thought it was worth sharing: It was about 10am in the morning, and I went to my porch to wait for the […]