Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) A guy muttered something under his breath as he walked passed me on the street. It turned out we lived in the same building, but he accused me of not living there when I walked in behind him. He called me a “cunt” when I told him I did live […]
Location: 17th and Mt Pleasant St NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I smiled at an older man on the sidewalk and he said “Hey baby, why don’t you stop and talk to me.” I just kept walking away (quickly) and he shouted “asshole!” Submitted 6/29/16 Do you have a personal experience with gender-based public sexual harassment or […]
Location: Mt. Pleasant St & Kenyon St NW (Mt. Pleasant) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) I was walking home from yoga class on Sunday evening and talking to my mom on the phone when a man on a bike slowed down, looked me in the eye, and said, “camel toe.” I screamed that he was a “disgusting […]
Location: 16th and Irving St NW, near the Columbia Heights metro Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Coming home from a Monday night dance class around 11pm, I was walking towards Mt Pleasant from the Col Heights metro when I noticed a few guys catcalling every woman they walked passed. Just leering and creepily yelling “Hey gorgeous!” and when they finally […]
Location: Mt. Pleasant Street and Park Road NW Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Seeing CASS’s posts in my Facebook feed recently has made me more aware of street harassment and more emboldened to respond. Several days ago, two young men were walking behind me, talking generally about the rear ends of women of a certain race (my race). […]