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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 […]

I was walking home to my apartment which is two blocks from the Clarendon metro station when I passed the Clarendon Grill. A vaguely drunk guy grabbed my arm, wrenched me back towards him, and began painstakingly reciting his phone number at me. Fortunately, part of what I love about living where I do is […]

For the second time this month, a creepy European guy has followed me around VT ave, trying to solicit sex. The first time, he kept poking me in the arm with his business card. I got loud to call attention to us & went a whole other direction. This time, I got loud again, & […]

A man on the metro was wearing a shirt that said “I support single mothers” and in the middle were pictures of strippers sliding around a pole. You know, I am for free speech and clearly he was wearing this shirt for a reaction. I can’t tell him to take it off, but I did […]

I was jogging in Columbia Heights and passed two men. One of them said “slow down, baby.” Slow down? I’m jogging! Sheesh. I firmly said “that’s inappropriate, please don’t say that” and jogged away. The man had a not so happy retort, but I couldn’t hear over the music from my headphones. Submitted by anonymous […]