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My best friend is a man and often hears me and my girlfriend complain about the constant, degrading harassment (both verbal AND physical) we’ve experienced while living in DC. I know he struggles with how he can be an effective ally and I think this spontaneous exchange was a pretty good solution: We were walking […]

Last winter I was waiting for some friends outside of a bar. I notice a man and a woman in a verbal altercation not more than 20 feet from me on my left. They’re both quite intoxicated. She’s yelling how she’s going to kick his ass, he says he’d like to see her try and […]

A few Saturdays ago, I was walking up to Adams Morgan from the U Street area with three other girlfriends. We were on 14th heading towards Florida when one guy stops as we walk by and gets just a few feet from my face. He says, “DAMN, take me home with you.” Less then a […]

Cross posted on Stop Street Harassment: I walked out on Columbia Road in Adams Morgan in DC Saturday night at about 9:30 p.m. I was on my cell phone text messaging a friend when a woman in a wheel chair violently wheeled herself up to about I’d say four feet in front of me grunting […]

I was biking into work at 8:30am this morning, wearing gym shorts & a ratty t-shirt. I turned left onto 19th (a quieter, not busy street) from Columbia Road. A guy on a moped was coming from the opposite direction on Columbia and turned right onto 19th at about the same time that I turned. […]