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Location:  Orange Line between Foggy Bottom and Capitol South Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was heading home from campus, seated on the metro near a window, and reading. A man sat next to me and reached down – between my legs – to retrieve something that was on the floor near my feet. It was an old luggage […]

Location:  Virtue Feed & Grain (Old Town Alexandria) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) my partner (white male) and I (woman of color) ate a lovely dinner and were enjoying a coffee at the bar when a late 20s/early 30s man started a generally kind conversation. It quickly turned in to a randomly anti-sematic (sic) conversation with him diving in […]

Location: Franklin Square, NW DC Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was eating lunch on the grass in the park when I noticed a homeless man was masturbating while looking at a group of girls a few feet away. I yelled at him and told him to stop but he ignored me. Then I looked right into the eyes […]

So I’ve been meaning to write about something that happened last weekend, and was just reminded by the fact that for the past HOUR, while I sat in the Caribou Coffee on 18th and M on a conference call, a man at a table near me stared (leered is more accurate) and eventually began touching […]

I was feeling rather down over a breakup, so I went to sit by the fountain at Dupont Circle and just relax a bit. As I walked down Connecticut Ave. and approached the outside of the circle, people leaving the circle and walking toward Connecticut Ave. passed all around me heading in the opposite direction. […]