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Cross posted from  Stop Street Harassment Blog: I’m a Black woman, and I hate the familiarity some Black men who are strangers use toward me. I had just gotten off the bus to go to work this morning, feeling drowsy and out of it. I see this delivery guy wheeling cartons of liquor into one […]

  Last night I was waiting for my bus when some guy told me “Hey baby, can I be your umbrella?” I was too dumbfounded to give any type of response except to completely ignore him. I wish I had a quicker reaction and smacked him with my actual umbrella. What bothered me about this […]

I was on the bus on the way to work this morning, and out the window I saw an old homeless man sitting in front of Tackle Box. A young woman walked by him, and he stuck his hand out at her. She ignored him and kept on walking, and he turned his head so […]

We just got word of two gender based public sexual attacks in Georgetown thanks to DCist, both individuals were attacked based on their sexual orientation. From DCist The Georgetown University Department of Public Safety has the details on the second bias-related assault in the last few days near the school. Early this morning, a Georgetown […]

I was with some friends at the Georgetown movie theater a few weeks ago and everything was fine until we stepped outside after the movie. As soon as we got out we passed a group of middle-aged men who started yelling after us, “Hey girls, how you doing?” We simply ignored them and walked away, […]