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I feel as if I am a magnet for harassers. I could be walking by amongst dozens of people, but harassers feel the need to single me out out of all those people. Yesterday I missed my bus home from Georgetown, so I thought I’d try to catch it from Rosslyn and I walked down […]

[T]his morning on the bus on the way to FT metro there was a 40ish yr old man wearing jeans w/ embroidered images of women tied up and gagged in rape poses included exposed genitalia who was standing w/ the pockets in my face as i sat. The bus was filled w/ 6 yr olds […]

I tend to ride my bike in the city, but a few times a week I take the bus. I generally like the bus as it is more convenient for me than the metro. The one thing I loathe about the bus, however, is waiting at the bus stop near my house. There have been […]

I was walking to the train station, and this harasser starts calling me “baby” and telling me I was “muy sexy.” Unfortunately I couldn’t find my phone right away, and having him standing there was nerve-racking. I finally found my phone and snapped his photo, and then he starts yelling and walking away. What pissed […]

Two Fridays ago, I was headed south from Columbia Heights to the Convention Center. Shortly after I boarded, I realized a group of two girls and two guys (about 18-25 years old) were harassing a trans woman who was in the seat nearest the driver. They were calling her disgusting, telling her she should be […]