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Location:  Dupont Circle and Dupont Circle Metro Station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Although the story I’m about to share is one of the more extreme stories that has happened to me in Dupont, the overall point of me finally posting publically (sic) about this is that I get harassed almost every day that I come to […]

Location: California & Columbia Road, NW (Adams Morgan) Time:  Night (7:30pm-12am) I was heading back to Dupont on the 90 bus after happy hours on U Street. It was a crowded bus, so I grabbed the last seat open, which was in the very front, next to a seemingly drunk man who kept nodding off. As soon […]

Street harassment affects women, regardless of their looks or socioeconomic status. It doesn’t matter how accomplished I am, or how I’m dressed, or how determined I look when I walk down the street. By “AKD” This post was originally written as a Facebook note. My friend asked me, as a woman, to convey the experience […]

Location: Grassy park; Dupont Circle Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I lived in DC from ’90-’91. On a gorgeous day, which happened to coincide with my day off, I went to Dupont Circle to sit and enjoy the sunshine. After two hours of verbally chasing away and physically moving away from would-be suitors, I gave up. I went down […]

By Nancy Messieh When I moved to Washington, DC, from Cairo last month, I made a mental list of all of the changes that I was going to be met with, many of them positive. I would no longer have to deal with Cairo traffic, with the city’s grime and pollution, with an overly-nosy neighbour, with […]