Story Submissions Recap:
I accept street harassment submissions from anywhere in the world. Share your story!
- Stop Street Harassment Blog: 6 new stories from people in South Wales, UK; Minneapolis, MN; Jakarta, Indonesia; London, UK; Quebec, Canada; and no location indicated.
- HollaBack DC!: 3 new stories
- HollaBack NYC: 6 new stories
- HollaBackLDN: 6 new stories
In the News, On the Blogs:
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour did a segment about street harassment- El Diario, “El acoso callejero” (English: “The Uncomfortable Walk Home“)
- Guardian, “Sexual harassment is not just a problem for Ines Sainz“
- Guardian, “Women in Egypt get hi-tech aid to beat sexual harassment“
- New German periodical focused on street harassment, “Street Harassment – Machtprozesse und Raumproduktion“
- The Intersection of Madness and Reality, “Street Meet: Black Women, Black Men, & Everyday Sexual Harassment“
- My Retail Heaven, “Oi Sexy! Nice Rack“
- Women’s Views on News, “Oi darlin’! Not many of them to the pound! Street harassment: the right of men to tell women what they think of them.”
- The Post, “Fema-what?: Three Things Women Wish Men Knew About Street Harassment”
- A Black Girl’s Guide to Weight Loss, “Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, & Weight Gain: Facing Facts“
- HollaBack DC!, “Literacy and street harassment“
Announcements:
- Welcome HollaBack PGH, a site for folks living in Pittsburgh, PA, to share their street harassment stories
- If you live in London, take a survey about street harassment on the London Anti-Street Harassment Campaign’s website and help influence mayoral policy
- The book Stop Street Harassment is available online!
- HollaBack NYC is looking for interns
- RightRides is looking for interns & volunteers in NYC
10 Tweets from the Week:
- PiperYAnderson Wearing tights for the first time in over 10yrs. Stopped wearing shorts or tights after a traumatic experience. #streetharassment
- lillyheart: Decided: I would rather tithe to @iHollaback than the church until it recognizes my humanity.
- accostherwilde A new taste of street harassment: dudes holla-ing @ me from their cars as I sit on my porch. Now they know where I live
- MissNabokov Men probably don’t realise what a big issue street harassment actually is (unless they’re the ones doing it). It really needs addressing.
- gyraff Why tweet abt st. harassment? Was told all my life to feel “grateful” and “appreciated” for getting catcalls . Actually, it feels yucky.
- mgeils One of the many things I don’t miss about public transit/busing/walking is street harassment and catcalling #fuckyou #shutup
- Mdotwrites DC streets be quiet on Redskin Sundays. Mean less street harassment for me. Ain’t THAT some shit.
- CTrouper Had my eyeballs on a copy of glamour mag. Q&a on street harassment article on summer of mainstream misogyny. Heart.
- smanamana I also hate this RT @karennattiah: Street harassment is one thing I hate about New York
- clembastow Here’s a hint, guys: street harassment does not make women want to “spend some time” with you.
Resource of the Week:
Check out these new button, stickers, and magnets you can use to declare your dislike of street harassment and to brand/shame street harassers!!
Golden Silence says
In the one link about black men, black women and harassment, I commented in response to one guy who claimed that black women were dismissive of brothas that it wasn’t a woman’s responsibility to say hi to men she didn’t know nor was it to uplift their bruised egos. This fool claimed that I’d end up “lonely” for not talking to strangers. Are you kidding me?!
And on the one about gaining weight, one guy chimed in saying that the woman was “driving a wedge between the brothas” by telling her story. I’d like men for once to stop butting in when women tell their stories. They also need to stop telling women how to react.
Don’t get me started on the comments on the Ines Sainz pieces…