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On Sunday, I went to the drum circle at Malcolm X Park with some friends. I saw this older man in overalls go up to one of my friends and walked over to see what was going on, we get harassed in some manner every week. He sees me walk up and immediately yells “what […]

These are my three most memorable DC harassment incidents… 1.) Was visiting my friend in Columbia Heights, and after finding a parking space, began to walk to her house. I see two guys approaching me, and I just had that feeling, as I know many women do, that something would be said. As I approached, […]

Another Harassment Hill story… I was walking down 14th St. NW coming home from Target on Saturday evening, when a man standing at a bus stop says loudly at me, “Hey, you had better smile and make the world a better place!” He said it as a command, but he also seemed quite amused with […]

Something about the 4th of July drove the harassers out. It seemed as if there was a harasser standing at every corner I turned. Just walking around the U street and Columbia Heights area that afternoon, my girlfriends and I experienced at least five catcallers and had three guys honk their horns at us and […]

We just received a tip from a reader about this post on Prince of Petworth. “This morning around 9:40 a.m. a coworker was walking north on 14th Street near the east side entrance to the CH Metro. As she passed the crowded bus stop at that location a man “sidekicked” her hard in the shin […]