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While riding the Red line towards Shady Grove, a man gets on at Rhode Island Ave and sits next to me. Right away I notice this is odd, because there are PLENTY of empty seats in the car. I have my book out and am clearly reading, but he starts making small talk. The usual […]

I walk up and down the hill between 14th & U and Columbia Heights several times a week (and sometimes late at night). I have come to call it “Harassment Hill” because there has never been a time that have made this walk and not been harassed.  Once I was harassed six times! Most of […]

I was on a bus going by the corner of 15 and U Streets. As it waited for passengers to unload and load, I saw a man standing near the corner but not at the stop, ogling women as they walked past. As far as I could tell, he wasn’t saying anything. But as women […]

The name of Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station needs to be changed into “Harassment Island Metro Station,” because walking through it to get to the train platform is a gauntlet of harassment. Yesterday, I was walking through it and this creepy guy sidles past me and says “Hey, mama!” Ew! I told him that’s not […]

I’m walking home from Brookland Metro and it’s wet and gross outside. Brookland is a nice neighborhood with good people, but there are some sketchy parts and sketchy people that don’t know to leave well enough alone. I wear my MP3 player as a way to deter street harassers from bothering me. I keep it […]