Location: 7th Street and S St NW Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I noticed a cab driver shouting and honking at me when I was passing Shaw Library on 7th Street NW. I walked on 7th St toward Uprising Muffins on S Street, and he continued to sexually harass me, but I was heading in the opposite direction, […]
Location: 5th & O NW Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) A guy yelled from his car while he followed me down the street two blocks about how tight my jeans were and how good looking at me made him feel. Submitted 7/16/16 by “MW” Do you have a personal experience with gender-based public sexual harassment […]
Location: Shaw-Howard Metro Stop, Washington, DC Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) A group of three men were yelling after a woman in front of me. They were trying to get her attention by yelling, “black tank top, black tank top!” When she didn’t respond, they yelled, “What, are you too cute to turn around?” One of their friends […]
By Ramin Katirai A weekday morning this fall, I was walking back from the mailbox in DC’s Shaw neighborhood when I heard a woman yelling at this dude. At first I couldn’t understand what they were saying, so I slowed down walking and started to listen and watch. He was yelling something like “baby sister […]
Location: 9th & Rhode Island Ave. NW (Shaw) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I had an incident that happened last Thursday around 8:15 pm. I was walking east on Rhode Island and was almost to 9th street when I saw a man quickly approaching from behind. Something seemed off, so I ran across Rhode Island to give myself some distance. […]