Weekly Round Up: November 7, 2010 | Stop Street Harassment

Story Submissions Recap:

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In the News, On the Blogs:

Announcements:

Are you in Egypt? Use HarassMap to report your street harassers
Have an iPhone? Download a new iPhone app that lets you report street harassers!
Take a street harassment survey for a Toronto-based group working to address this problem with an iPhone app
Via Change.org: Tell New York City Council to Fund Anti-Street Harassment Advocacy & Services
View/read testimonies from most of the people who testified last week at the first-ever city council hearing on street harassment in NYC

Upcoming Events:

Nov. 8: RightRides fundraiser – whiskey tasting, 6 p.m., NYC
Nov. 8: Everyday Sexism talk at Oxford Gender Equity Festival (Vicky Simister from the UK Anti-Street Harassment Campaign is speaking), 7 p.m., Oxford, UK
Nov. 9: Rally to take rape seriously, noon, NYC
Nov. 11: I’m co-presenting with SAFER about making campuses safer for everyone at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 10:45 a.m., Denver, CO
Nov. 13: Stop Street Harassment book signing at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 12:15 p.m., Denver, CO,
Nov. 14: Intro to self defense with Defend Yourself (ages 16+), 1:30 p.m., Bethesda, MD

10 Tweets from the Week:

harassmap G’Morning! if u experienced sexual harassment today on your way to work, school or university, report the incident on http://harassmap.org/
ricafrankel ‘Catcall’ I just got: “You’re pretty. You Jewish? Your nose is huuuuge.”
meredithnudo As much as I love living in @downtownhouston, there is a SERIOUS #streetharassment problem here. It makes running errands uncomfortable.
lorriehearts On my way home from leaf-stomping. Some street harassment from the bin men threatened to ruin my walk, but no, let http://twitpic.com/341jd2
BLANK_NOISE hurray to #tokyo #actionheroes !!! http://twitpic.com/33u6bg
fleuredeflorida Excited I got through to the @kaneshow during their catcall segment so I could give a shoutout to @hollabackdc
MONTAakaQUEEN Never can understand… when walking down the street why do men harass women???
BatfishLD Apparently it’s “catcall a white girl on Mission” day. In other news, there’s a lot of new graffiti in the hood!
newsaboutwomen: Anti-street harassment campaign HollaBack reaches Israel – http://ow.ly/1rn6w1 // (follow them, @hollaback_il)
RedFeminist @Mmmeg The majority do not have good intentions. Women’s bodies are not public property. Men need to realize that we won’t put up with it.

Young Feminists Speak Out at TEDxYouth « Feminist Teacher says:

November 22, 2010 at 11:09 am

[…] Junior Steven Susaña’s talk focused on self-determination for one’s body whether it be for reproductive reasons, an abortion, or sexual pleasure. Finally, for junior Grace Tobin, sharing her story about street harassment at a recent New York City Council hearing was critical for realizing that her personal experience could make lasting change for women and girls experiencing harassment everyday in our city’s streets and subways. Inspired by Emily May’s work at Hollaback, Tobin was able to leverage her story not only at the council hearing but also for media coverage on CBS and the New York Post. Tobin’s blog post about her experience testifying was so powerful that it was linked to street harassment expert and scholar Holly Kearl’s blog. […]
Top 10 Media Moments for Young Feminists at LREI in 2010 « Feminist Teacher says:

January 2, 2011 at 8:02 am

[…] features Grace Tobin’s testimony on her important Stop Street Harassment site as well as links Grace’s blog post from F to the Third Power. Ms. Magazine blog also quotes Grace in a post about her […]