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I walk through Logan Circle every day on my way home from work. It is a popular place for homeless people, mothers/children, and just passerbys. For a long time I was never bothered, but in the past week I have harassed twice. The first time there was an obnoxiously loud man yelling at people in […]

I was sitting at a bus stop in Farragut North waiting on a bus to get to an appointment at Georgetown hospital around 10:30 am during the week. An older man (late 50s, early 60s) came up and said “Would it be wrong if I asked if I could see them” and then gestured towards […]

I was walking my dog outside of my building one Saturday late morning (around 11 am) when an elderly postal worker (late 60s, early 70s) jumped out of his truck to get the mail from a blue mailbox outside the building next door. He started shouting, so I turned to look and he yelled “GIRL […]

I’ve started to feel so unsafe in DC (and at the workplace, but that’s another story) that I rarely walk around the neighborhood without my boyfriend anymore. He’s rail-thin and nerdy, but apparently as long as I’m holding hands with a male, other men won’t encroach on my personal space. They still make comments, though […]

Last night, walking home from U St with a friend who was a survivor of sexual assault and already nervous to be walking anywhere at night–she was coming home with me so I could drive her back to her apartment. Two guys roll up in white pickup and drive slow along side us, the guy […]