Location: Metro Center (13th & F St NW) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) My friend (visiting from out of town) was coming to meet me at my office on F St. Walking from the metro to my office, a man on a bike approached her and tried to get her attention. When she removed her headphone, he started […]
Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Location: Between McPherson Sq and Metro Center I’m 5 months pregnant and was happy to find one empty seat on the metro train. I sat down next to a man who promptly started rubbing himself over his jeans. Submitted 11/23/16 by “BL” Do you have a personal experience with public harassment […]
“Oh my god – what the hell is that? Looks like every thunderstorm and earthquake ever.” I had just left my office at 16th & K to grab lunch down the block when a man sitting on the curb shouted this at me. In just a few words, I had become a “that,” and my […]
Location: 16th & L St NW, Washington, DC Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Last week I was walking from the Metro to work and a white man was sitting on the sidewalk with a tin can. I had a mug in my hand, and, as I passed, he yelled at me: “I will knock that right out of […]
Location: Newseum, NW DC Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) A teenage boy smirkingly blocked my way and asked if I knew what a camel toe was. I told him he knew perfectly well what it was and got security and the chaperone from his school group. The chaperone had my back and let me know he’d be held accountable. […]