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I was heading towards the 42 bus stop near the white house. For the first time this summer I was wearing a dress. I had been harassed earlier when two different guys made comments, and I was already wary of men on the street. At the corner of Vermont ave & K street, there was […]

I’m a frequent follower of numerous street harassment blogs (including this one) and I’ve been reading and commenting on the one about the “Boys & Girls Club Scammer.” What will it take to get him caught? Anyway, I just remembered something that happened back in December. I was volunteering for Christmas, and I took the […]

Two incidents in the same day- first, I was coming up out of the McPherson Square metro and the guy behind me on the escalator took went out of his way to brush up against me as he passed. He muttered something about wanting to do something to some part of me that was apparently […]

Josef*, thank you for the work you are doing with Holla Back!…you are amazing. There have been many instances of sexual harassment that I have seen and been a victim of in D.C., but one stands out more than others. I have wanted to get this off my chest for a while. I was walking […]

I’ve been harassed on the street many times since moving to DC this fall, but one incident that sticks out in my mind happened in front of the Chop’t restaurant on 12th St. near the intersection with H. It was in September, I had just gotten a salad at Chop’t and had taken it outside […]