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I was excitedly preparing to get some ice cream then visit my partner for a minute at his job then head home from my own workday. I was wearing big, teal “don’t talk to me” headphones, and just a couple doors down from the desired ice cream shop I see a young, 20 something (my […]

I was out running and waiting at the intersection at 14th and Florida and two men were walking up to the intersection. My instincts told me right away that I was about to be harassed so I subtly changed my body’s stance as the two men approached me. They slowed down, split up, with one […]

I observed the harassment but felt the need to share it because the harassers were two women in a car at a busy intersection light. I was eating lunch outside. I was visiting the Tudor Place and took a break to walk up Q St and turned left on Wisconsin. I stopped at a market […]

I don’t even understand what this was. A metro bus driver walked alongside me for awhile. Then he started talking, ostensibly to me, but I couldn’t understand what he was saying. So, I say: “What?” He responds, “You knew I had to stop and talk to you. You knew I was going to talk to […]

I walked to Whole Foods from my office near Thomas Circle as I often do. On the way back, my coworker and I encountered a man I see quite often on 14th in that general area. He is a older man, short cropped hair, short beard, yellowish eyes. He was wearing a blue long sleeved […]