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I am a fifteen-year-old girl. I was walking home from having lunch with my friends after school. I was very close to my home in a very residential neighborhood. As I got to the corner of 2nd and Noyes, I hear a car blasting music pull up next to me. The car honked twice, I […]

This morning I left my house to walk the 3 blocks to my bus stop. It is a particularly hot day in DC, and I am wearing a long red sundress. I sometimes hesitate to wear this dress because it tends to generate attention from men, (which in and of itself is a frustrating statement), […]

There is an extreme harassment experience that I went through about a year and a half ago that still impacts the way I live my life everyday. I walked into a store to grocery shop and left the store thinking I was going to be murdered. Here is my story: On February 25, 2010, I […]

I’m only 15 years old, and I was walking down from my HIGH SCHOOL to Four Corners to wait for my parent to pick me up when I was harassed by two young men. As I walked past a bus shelter to go to the Starbucks, two guys who were sitting there got up, and […]

On Sunday around 5pm one of our housemates was chased down the street on her bike by two men who shouted at her that they wanted her bike and that they were going to take it (among other things). They chased her for over a block until she turned onto Arundel. She was extremely shaken […]