Location: L’Enfant Metro Station, waiting for the orange line Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Today I was assaulted at L’Enfant metro station while waiting for an orange train for the second time this year. The platform there is dark and cramped and overrun with the large number of construction projects down there and now also the addition […]
Location: 12th and F St. NW (Metro Center) Time: Late Night (12am-5am) I have lived in this beautiful, vibrant city for nearly 6 years now, and almost every single day, I find a new reason to be thankful for how exciting, convenient, and adventurous it still is to me. Today was one of those rare but necessary […]
Yesterday, DC blog Prince of Petworth (PoP) posted a story in which a reader recounted facing harassment from a group of men in Columbia Heights, asking the question: “What should you do when you’re being harassed?” Though it’s unclear from the original story whether the harassing incident described is gender-based, the behaviors — stalking, verbal […]
A national study released today by our friend and former board member Holly Kearl is the first to quantify the prevalence and harm done by street harassment in our nation. Combined with the innumerable stories shared on the #YesAllWomen hashtag, providing a clear picture of the emotional impact of entitlement and aggression perpetrated across the […]
Location: Bethesda Metro Station Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) Long story – so today I was on an elevator in Bethesda going down to the metro with two women. I heard the normal looking older woman ask the younger woman if her bust was bigger than her waist. I wondered out loud what was going on. The […]