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I was walking back from a bar crawl with my roommate. It was a Saturday night — still early, around 10:00pm. We walked by a group of people whose party had spilled out onto their front porch. Usually large groups of loud, drunk men make me nervous, but I was with my friend and saw […]

I was running today – wearing running tights and a longish shirt and lovely gentleman called to me “hey, camel toe!” I feel like every time I run, regardless of what I’m wearing, I’m harassed. And I’m not cute when I run — so I can only imagine the jeers other women get. It’s so […]

Last Thursday, around 8:30pm, I was walking up 14th Street (A.K.A Harassment Hill) in order to go to my boyfriend’s house. Around Florida and 14th a man who I have been harassed by before as well as witness him harass other women started yelling at me from the opposite side of the street.  This kept […]

I had just gotten off the metro and was starting my walk home. I was wearing a knee length shirt dress with a full skirt that dropped from the waist. As a gust of wind blew up, I made a quick move to hold the skirt part down so that it wouldn’t fly up and […]

I know this isn’t technically DC, but I was driving on 234 in Manassas early in the morning to get to the commuter lot for the Manassas-DC bus. Waiting at a light, a pick-up truck with 3 workers pulled up next to me on the left. I had my window open because I was smoking, […]