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I was walking to the bus stop and these guys in a car (I think a red Ford Windstar, but did not get the license number) pulled down their window and started yelling gross things. This happened three times in a thirty minute span. I stayed on the phone with a bus operator and then […]

I was headed to the library when a red car, which had the most loud and obnoxious music coming from it, made a left turn really fast from 18th onto Adams. The driver yells something that sounded like “Yo, beautiful!” at me. I wasn’t in the mood. I rolled my eyes. I was going to […]

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 […]

Last night (June 27) I was at the CVS on Columbia Pike in Arlington near the Drafthouse about 7:30. While I was in there, I noticed a WMATA employee wearing one of those bright yellow/orange vests staring at the woman in line in front of me waiting to check out. I didn’t pay it much […]

A few weeks ago, I was walking and crossed the street at a red light. A horn beeps really loudly, in an aggressive manner that I notice usually happens when someone’s stuck in traffic and experiencing bad road rage. I thought the driver was rushing me to cross, though I had pedestrian right of way […]