Street harassment snapshot: January 16, 2011

Story Submissions Recap:

I accept street harassment submissions from anywhere in the world. Share your story!

• Stop Street Harassment Blog: 3 stories from people in Birmingham (UK), Switzerland, and New York City

New stories on:

• HollaBack Berlin
• HollaBack DC!
• HollaBack Israel
• HollaBack NYC

Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:

• The Times of India, “26 eve-teasers arrested in Kanpur“

• ABC News, “Construction Workers Harass Woman: What Would You Do?“
• The Times of India, “Cops help travellers reach home safely“
• The Star, “Female cabbies offer safe passage“
• Ottawa Citizen, “Ottawa woman describes ‘shocking’ daylight attack by mystery assailant”
• The Nation, “Calendars exposing ‘sexual harassers’ launched“
• The City Fix, “Separate But Equal: A Winning Policy for Women in Transit?“
• NZ Herald, “Are Kiwi males vulgar? A Hollywood star thinks so“
• SF Gate, “Mary, Melodie and the Mission district: women brutalized on our sidewalks“
• Monsters and Critics, “Egyptian film urges women to act against sexual harassment“
• Just Femme, “Street Harassment Warrior, Holly Kearl“
• The Cheeseblog, “Spiders and Street Harassment“
• Becca Caddy, “Emily May the hollaback girl“

Events:`

• Jan. 23: BLANK_NOISE Delhi Meet Up http://on.fb.me/dZkUut
• Jan. 23: Anti-Street Harassment Planning Meeting, In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland, OR, 4 p.m.
• Feb. 1: Stop Street Harassment Book Talk, Northern Illinois University, 7 p.m.
• Feb. 12: HollaBack Baltimore Launch Party, Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles Street, 8 p.m.

Announcements:

New:

• ABookishBeemer Call to #Louisville #KY #feminist/s: writing #streetharassment piece & I’d like women to share their stories! For LouisvilleKY.com (DM @ABookishBeemer)
• bibliofeminista Eastern Connecticut feminists! I’m launching a new Hollaback site to end street harassment! Come help/share stories hollabackct.tumblr.com
• hollabackBLN Sendet Eure Geschichte, Erlebnisse, Erfahrungen an berlin@ihollaback.org! #hollabackBLN #Berlin #ihollaback

On-going:

• If you’re in India,  check out Blank Noise’s information for 2011 and how you can get involved with efforts there to address eve-teasing
• Did you miss the Dec. 11th Webinar about writing street harassment op-eds with journalist Elizabeth Mendez Berry? Here’s the recording if so!
• 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!

10 Tweets from the Week:

• JessiDG #wecanallagreethat a compliment that makes you feel bad is not a compliment. #streetharassment
• ZennerBeaner If I get street harassment again, I’m going to snap. Men need to stop being pigs & treat women w/ respect.
• lashcampaign article on assault in current issue of @CosmopolitanUK includes advice from founder @vicky_simister, woo!
• HollaBackBmore was harassed while putting up flyers for the Hollaback Bmore! launch event! I think the site will be a hit!
• HollaBackCzech Stay tuned everybody. The site’s not active yet but the collective voices of the women of CZ will be hollaing soon!
• HollabackMCR Hurray, for @UMSUnion womens officer saying she’ll help with promoting @HollabackMCR. Students get web 2.0 ending #streetharassment
• iHollaback In Mumbai, only 28% of the people on the street are women at any given time bc of safety. HollabackMUMBAI is gonna fix that
• FeministInti A disgrace: #Coke promotes #streetharassment culture in #Argentina. #Piropos = #catcalls. #feminism #hollaback http://plixi.com/p/69360680
• kzmuda Meet the Feminista Barista fighting street harassment in Atlanta @hollabackatl @ihollaback http://ow.ly/3ByW2 #GLOBALhollaback
• wlp1 Study finds women portrayed negatively in newspaper cartoons in #Egypt where #streetharassment is a serious problem http://bit.ly/ho5Ao6#vaw