I Was Sexually Harassed at the Blood Bank

Alice Garbarini Hurley
5 min readMay 30, 2021

Now I know — unwelcome advances happen everywhere, even in a donor lounge chair with your feet up in the air and a needle in your arm for an 80-minute-plus platelet donation. Or is it especially then, when you’re in a situation like this, in my case at the mercy of the staff and hooked up to a machine?

Blood bank image from HERE. Note, donors’ feet are elevated.

I don’t want to share too many details, because I do not want the man to get fired — I…

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Alice Garbarini Hurley

Magazine maven, craft coffee lover, legal guardian. Passionate about fashion and lipstick — though it may not look that way when I dash to the supermarket.