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Category Archive for "Shaw"

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A Vitamin A day Keeps The Street Harassers Away

Jun 15, 2010

This is a mostly positive story. In fact, it was badass. I was walking North up 7th Street to get lunch. One man, probably in his 50s, said, “Hey beautiful…” and started to try to talk with me as he walked along side me. I looked over at him and said, “I don’t like that. […]

27

“Imma Make You Have My Baby”

Jun 8, 2010

All packed up and heading to the airport to watch my little brother graduate from high school, I walked from Adam’s Morgan to the Columbia Heights metro. I took the back way through my neighborhood to avoid being catcalled by the men generally hanging outside the Christ House on Columbia Road. Even though I have […]

28

Camera Phone

May 26, 2010

A douchebag on the bus took a picture of my tits with a camera phone while I was trying to fix my socks. When I jerked back in surprise, he said, “Smile, big tits!” and took another. Submitted by MV on 5/21/2010 Location: Shaw and Howard University Stop Do you have a personal experience with […]

29

Harassed Six Times in 15 Minutes

May 25, 2010

I was walking alone up Georgia–this walk takes about 10 or 15 minutes. In that time I was harassed 6 times. No one time was particularly scary or mean, but the sum of that walk really upset me. 1. A group of younger men commented commented “hey girl, you don’t have to walk so fast. […]

30

“Can you take you out, baby?”

Mar 12, 2010

Last night I was walking home alone at about 10:00pm along North Capitol Street in the Bloomingdale/Shaw neighborhood. Two men in their late teens or early 20s were walking towards me and another, older, man was walking in from of me and entering his house. As the two younger men walked past me, the one […]

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