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My roommates and I were walking to Mt. Pleasant to celebrate our friend’s birthday when a group of three men walked by. One of the men slipped his hand under my dress and up my thigh as he passed by. I was in shock and could do little more than turn around say “What the […]

I was sitting on my front stoop reading my email on my phone, taking a break from my darling daughters who were inside coloring. I saw a twenty-something man cross the street in the middle of the block towards me, and asked me something like ‘hey, baby, wanna go out tonight?’ I responded simply, ‘no […]

I was biking hard west on Florida Ave Sunday night, and as I was going through the intersection at 10th, there was car full of men idling east-bound. The driver hollered out to me, “I bet you have soft thighs.” I just ignored the gross comment and kept going at my furious pace, insecure that […]

Harassment happens here by drivers so frequently that this post is simply an amalgamation of them all. I am walking to the metro on busy Blair Rd wearing work clothes, ie dress pants or a business skirt. I am honked at and ogled by drivers and passengers. Sometimes they wave this cutesy wave that makes […]

I was walking home around 9 pm, a block from my house, in my residential neighborhood. Although I often wave and say hello to neighbors on their porches and they do the same, a man on a porch decided to take it further. He yelled out to me, “Man, are you pretty. I want to […]