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Location: Red Line metro, at Silver Spring Time:  Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I want to share a positive experience. Today on the metro a man struck up a conversation with me. I did not have a book out nor was I listening to an ipod. He was polite and kept his distance. We ended up casually chatting for the […]

Time:  Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Location: Queens Chapel and Belfast Road (Maryland) I walk with a baby girl in the stroller every morning. Every day for the past couple of weeks, one or two cars beep at me, someone hollers something, and yesterday, a man slowed on his bike to catcall me. I just keep walking, but […]

Time:  Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Location: Navy Yard Metro Station/USDOT Building Last Friday, I was riding the metro elevators when I noticed two teenaged boys had stopped next to me and were staring. I gave them a dirty look, which seemed to incite them to make lewd comments. They continued to stare at me and I was […]

Time:  Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Location: Chinatown Metro Station At 7am one Sunday morning, a friend and I were heading home dressed in our outfits from the night before (mini dresses and stillettos). The Chinatown metro station was fairly deserted. As we began going down the escalators we only saw one man behind us. As we got […]

Time:  Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Location: 1250 Connecticut Ave. NW (Dupont) I was walking up Connecticut Ave. in the early evening trying to locate a ZipCar parking lot when I was approached by a man. He walked along side me and said,  “are you following me?” I responded in my most sarcastic tone (because I was clearly […]