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This isn’t close to the most offensive thing I’ve heard in the street in this neighborhood, but I was still plenty pissed. I was walking home from a friend’s (a note: I was wearing a lumpy brown sweater covering a shirt in which I was storing my wallet and such in the pockets–I actually looked […]

Every morning I walk from the Judiciary Square metro, at the 4th Street exit, across the way to 3rd Street, and every morning it is a gauntlet of unwelcome “hey baby”-s “damn you lookin fine”-s and “mmmm mmmm”-s from the assorted loiterers outside the buildings. Just the anticipation of it is unnerving, and sometimes I […]

I was coming home after working, I phone bank in the evenings, and it had been a particularly long night, and my friend who lives in Oregon called me as I was wrapping things up at work. I was on the phone with my friend as I got on and off the bus home. As […]

This story isn’t recent, but three years later I am still annoyed and disgusted thinking about it. I wish Hollaback had been around then, so I would have thought to get a photo of the jerk who verbally harassed me or in some way react to the guy rather than just letting it happen. I […]

Sadly, this is the second harassment story I’m posting to this site. I went to Five Guys for a burger and fries on my lunch break in the middle of a week day. I was starving and just wanted to stuff my face with delicious food, but I had an interaction with an employee there […]