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I was walking up 18th Street at about 10:45 Saturday morning. I was wearing slacks, a rugby tee shirt, and flip flops. I had my ever-present messenger bag slung from shoulder to hip, and I was wearing my big, dark “leave me alone” sunglasses. There was a man sweeping the porch of a restaurant on […]

I was minding my damn business when some a care pulled up to me with two men inside. They started hissing and calling at me. Was I supposed to drop my panties right there? The next morning, two blocks away, some guy on a bike trys to holla at me as he’s riding. “Hey Shorty!” […]

I was walking back from lunch with a friend (a guy) to the Metro at Woodley Park, and just at the bus stop on Calvert St before the bridge, there was a man sitting down on the pavement. I assumed he was waiting for the bus; he was messing with his phone. Friend and I […]

I was in Arlington and walking to the train station. When walking on Quincy Street, I walked past a guy who was loading groceries into his car, which didn’t seem out of the ordinary, until he started calling at me. “‘Scuse me, sweetheart,” he says. I know he’s trying to hit on me, and I […]

On Sunday, I went to the drum circle at Malcolm X Park with some friends. I saw this older man in overalls go up to one of my friends and walked over to see what was going on, we get harassed in some manner every week. He sees me walk up and immediately yells “what […]