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I was crossing the street and there was a motorcycle stopped at the red light with two guys sitting on it. As I went through the crosswalk and was about to pass right in front of them, the one on the back of the motorcycle started in with the standard “hey baby, how you doing […]

I was waiting at the bus stop on a Sunday morning (around 10 a.m.) and I realized that I was at the wrong bus stop after a few minutes. I started to walk away, looking at my phone to check my directions, towards the bus stop directly on Dinwiddie (I was at the stop on […]

I was walking home from class when a car in a nearby parking lot started moving towards the road. Since the car would have hit me if one of us didn’t stop, I glanced over at the car to make sure it had seen me. Unfortunately, the eye contact was apparently enough to convince the […]

I’m female born and female identified. Maybe it’s my queerness that makes me so intensely sensitive to harassment, because I absolutely DESPISE the idea that I am on this earth for men, for male consumption, to entertain the male gaze. I deliberately dress in shapeless clothes during the day, and only bust out the super […]

 Cross-posted from Stop Street Harassment: Although I am verbally and sometimes physically harassed literally every time I walk to and from the DC metro to my workplace, the most recent incident was the most disturbing. Waiting in the metro station for my train, i heard a male voice saying “Hey sweetie” over and over again while […]