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Northeast Seattle
November 27, 2017

Link Light Rail

I had just gotten back from the airport after Thanksgiving, where a man had already called me a tramp in front of a group of people. On the ride back I felt extremely uncomfortable because I kept getting glances from men on the Link, and this lasted for an entire hour. When I got off of the train a man walked by, looked me up and down and said “you’re…
Bremerton
October 17, 2017

Repeat Offender

Verbal harassment EVERY time I walk by. Sexual invitations, comments about my body, and he calls me a bitch when I confront him.
West Woodland
September 23, 2017

A Girl Walks Home Alone at…

9/22/17 I was walking home around 8:30 on a Friday night in Ballard, and as I passed the O'Reilly Auto Parts on 15th, some guy in the parking lot started yelling "hello" at me. I kept walking, saying to myself that I was going to let this one go, just keep walking and carry on with my life. But as I did, he kept yelling "hello" and something else I…

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Leave My Ass Alone

There is a homeless shelter very close to where live that I pass by every day. Often, I get leers and comments about my body from the men hanging around outside of it as I pass. Today, one of them said, “damn, look at that ass” and I decided I’d had enough. I’d previously held … Continued

Was that Street Harassment?

It’s hard to share your story about street harassment if you don’t know that you’ve experienced street harassment. So, here’s a handy article from stopstreetharassment.org that helps define it. There is not yet an official, standardized definition, but here are a few, each of which is correct: Definitions   Here are just a few examples of … Continued