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I’ve started to feel so unsafe in DC (and at the workplace, but that’s another story) that I rarely walk around the neighborhood without my boyfriend anymore. He’s rail-thin and nerdy, but apparently as long as I’m holding hands with a male, other men won’t encroach on my personal space. They still make comments, though […]

This has been a banner week for harassment. Was taking the 52 home from a friend’s place tonight, later than usual. It was crowded, and a guy sitting too close to me (I was facing forward, he in the side-facing seats) and smelling boozy started to talk to me. Couldn’t really hear what he was […]

I was on the bus with a group of girlfriends, heading from a restaurant in Columbia Heights down to a bar on U Street. We were sitting in the back of the bus in the seats that face each other. I was in the seat closest to the back row, so I was actually very […]

As usual, the escalator into the Judiciary Square metro station was out, and I had to walk down the steps into the station. I was wearing very high heels, and the handrail was too hot to touch, so I was walking very carefully. As I neared the bottom, a man passed me and said something […]

I was not expecting the bus driver to holla at me. At about 5:40 PM, I boarded the Circulator (1139) at Rosslyn, which was heading towards Dupont Circle. I’m one out of many in a long line waiting to board the bus. Why did the driver feel the need to single me out to say […]