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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). […]

Location: “E” bus from Friendship Heights to Petworth Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I was rushing to the Friendship Heights bus stop after work around 11:30pm but slowed down once I saw that the driver was still standing outside the bus. As I approached I reached into my bag to pull out my metro card and a slip of […]

Location: Fort Totten Metro Station – Green/Yellow Line Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) As I was walking down the metro platform (after leaving training for volunteering at a rape crisis center no less), a man felt the need to tell me he was going to “eat my pussy” and that he was sure I “must be very wet.” When […]

Location: Columbia and 18th St NW (Adams Morgan) Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I was walking next to a male friend of mine and coming from the other direction was a man stumbling a bit was walking straight towards me and I could tell he was going to say something to me. He said to me as we passed […]

Location: Blue Line, Pentagon Metro Station Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) This happened a year ago. My friend and I were riding home on Metro after class, around 10pm. Across the aisle from us (the seats that face each other) was a girl who had a little too much fun at happy hour. She was barely staying awake. As we […]