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I’d just gotten off a long closing shift at the coffee shop where I work and was walking home. Coming towards me was a big group of young men that I could hear talking loudly before I even saw them and I remember immediately thinking “oof…trouble.” One guy was walking right at me and I […]

I was excitedly preparing to get some ice cream then visit my partner for a minute at his job then head home from my own workday. I was wearing big, teal “don’t talk to me” headphones, and just a couple doors down from the desired ice cream shop I see a young, 20 something (my […]

About 5 years ago I was leaving a bar in Adams Morgan with a couple of female coworkers. We had a few drinks and were dancing then decided to go to another bar just a block or two away. Admittedly, Adams Morgan is a breeding ground for college-aged or just out of college ex-frat boys […]

I was walking home and a group of about 5 twenty something men were walking down the sidewalk in the other direction. As I get closer one of them says, “Hey, baby. Will you marry me?” A couple of them start snickering. I keep walking fast past them, but was too scared to say anything […]

This morning, I was biking to work and I hit the intersection at Columbia and Connecticut Ave NW. There are three lanes at this intersection. One is right turn only, one is to go straight or turn left, and the last is to turn left only. I came up alongside the second lane because I […]