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As I’m walking towards the crosswalk to cross the street, the light changes, not in my favor. Two men are standing there (one older than the other). The older man says, “Excuse me Ms., my friend said you look like a teenager, how old are you?” I smile and say “I’m not in my teens,” […]

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 […]