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Location: 15th & N Street NW (Logan Circle) Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I was coming home alone on New Year’s Eve after hanging out with friends in Columbia Heights/Mt. Pleasant. In the walk between the bus stop on 16th St. and my apartment several blocks away, a man ran up to me until he was standing less […]

Location: 10th street NW between O and P streets (Logan Circle) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was walking home from the metro when a man on a bicycle approached me, asking me for the time. I began to explain that I didn’t have my phone and therefore didn’t know what time it was, when I noticed […]

I was going for a jog after work through Logan Circle, up 14th Street, down Florida Ave., and through LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale. On multiple occasions, older men (probably 40+) either made comments as I passed them (one I heard saying “you don’t need to run to look like that”), leered at me, or jokingly […]

I was walking home from work at 16th and 1 block below P Street, NW, when two guys approached me and told me I have a fat ass. I said no thank you and kept walking, at which point they started following me. Fortunately, a bus pulled up and I was able to cross the […]

Speedwalking in a nice dress to my ushering gig at a downtown theater this afternoon, I encountered a carful of grinning guys, who courteously slowed down in the middle of the intersection to greet me with some semi-intelligible but almost certainly charming commentary on my body and movements. Accordingly, I flipped them off and went […]