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I was walking home from the Columbia Heights metro on 3/10/10 around 9:30 p.m. and I noticed a middle aged man walking really closely behind me. After about a block, he says, “Hey, girl.” I ignore him and walk faster, he catches up to me, “I’m gonna walk you home.” At this point there are […]

Last night I was walking home alone at about 10:00pm along North Capitol Street in the Bloomingdale/Shaw neighborhood. Two men in their late teens or early 20s were walking towards me and another, older, man was walking in from of me and entering his house. As the two younger men walked past me, the one […]

Surprise! Women often feel unsafe while taking public transportation and even change their routes to avoid the spaces they fear.In her latest study, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris looks at what women fear the most when taking public transportation, what women need, and what innovative solutions are out there. In 2006, Loukaitou-Sideris and team did a survey of […]

While we know that WMATA doesn’t always responded well to  sexual harassment and assault reports, we do believe that it is important to report incidents and file complaints in order to document its prevalence.  Sexual harassment and assault on our Metro trains and buses is very underreported.  According to The Sexist, in 2009, there were 47 […]

A few weeks ago my friends and I were on our way to Pasha Lounge in DC. It was around 11:30 pm-12 ish and we parked right in front of APEX nightclub and got out to take pictures of each other. As we were taking pictures, a group of guys drove by (I didn’t see […]