Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week and find relevant announcements and upcoming street harassment events.
Street Harassment Stories:
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You can read new street harassment stories on the Web from the past week at:
- Stop Street Harassment Blog
- HollaBack Atlanta
- HollaBack Buenos Aires
- HollaBack Chicago
- HollaBack DC!
- HollaBack France
- HollaBack Israel
- HollaBack London
- HollaBack Mumbai
- HollaBack NYC
- HollaBack Portland
- HollaBack SoCal
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
- Deccan Herald, “‘There is no respect for women‘”
- India Today, “Delhi: Man killed for shielding daughter from harassment“
- Fox News, “Hollaback! at Harassment“
- New American Media, “Letter From India: An “Eve-Teasing” Tragedy Stirs Outrage-and Shame“
- After the harassment and sexual assault of CBS correspondent Lara Logan i Cairo became public, there were many articles and blog posts about street harassment in Egypt and beyond
- Stop Street Harassment, “Street harassment in Egypt and Lara Logan“
- Ms. Magazine, “Lara Logan and Egypt’s Next Revolution“
- CNN, “Egypt’s harassed women need their own revolution“
- Washington Post, “What happened to Logan was unacceptable“
- The Daily Beast, “Egypt’s Women Rally Behind Lara Logan“
- Guardian, “Adding insult to Lara Logan’s injury“
- The Boston Globe, “No rights for women, no freedom in a nation“
- Women’s E News, “Logan Attack Doesn’t Brand the Entire Middle East“
- NPR, “Why Have many Comments About The Attack on Lara Logan Been Removed?“
- Washington Post, “Egyptian women’s issues highlighted by Logan case“
- HR Reality Check, “Women’s Human Rights in Egypt: Cautious Optimism and the Way Forward“
- The Atlantic, “Street Harassment is Everywhere“
- Huffington Post, “Egypt’s Ongoing Problem with Sexual Harassment“
- Slate, “Why Lara Logan’s Sexual Assault is Demoralizing for Egyptian Women“
- All Headline News, “CBS correspondent latest victim of sexual harassment, assault in Egypt“
- The Times of India, “Eve-teasers thrash bus driver, conductor“
- Washington City Paper, “The Needle: Valentine’s Play Edition“
- Clutch Magazine, “Next Time a Street Harasser Bothers You, Hit Him With This“
- FreshOutlook, “Street Harassment in the UK“
- Herald Scotland, “Cat Steward on…hollaback, girls“
- Ms Magazine, “At Last, SoCal Women Can Holla Back“
- Next Magazine, “Under Siege Under Ground“
Events:
- Feb. 24: Stop Street Harassment Book Talk, James Madison University (VA), 6:30 p.m., Miller 1101
- Feb. 26: HollaBack Atlanta’s launch party
- Feb. 26: BLANK_NOISE’s #actionheroes college network meeting in Bangalore, India
- March 10: Town Hall & Community Forum on Mass Transit, NYC, 6 p.m.
Announcements:
New:
- If you’re in London, submit street harassment stories for inclusion in the publication Langdon Oglar
- Participate in a new study for Dr. Kimberly Fairchild
- Check out the Catcaller Form by The Riot
- htownhollaback Remember, we’re giving away a copy of @hkearl ‘s book “Stop Street Harassment” once the Facebook [group] hits 50 members! http://tinyurl.com/4n25j2h
On-going:
- Have an encounter with gender-based violence on NYC mass transit to share? http://tinyurl.com/transitstory (via RightRides)
- If you live in Washington, DC, take a street harassment survey for HollaBack DC!
- If you’re a queer woman of color in New York City, please take this survey about your street harassment experiences for Kimberlynn Acevedo’s work on the topic
- Are you in Egypt? Use HarassMap to report your street harassers
- Have an iPhone? Download the Hollaback iPhone app that lets you report street harassers
10 Tweets from the Week:
- kintoall I’m a bit concerned about the hooplah re-abuses of Muslim women & on street harassment. Come to the USA, & you will see the same. sorry2say
- SarahDobbs Oh, good, street harassment. I thought this day wasn’t going shittily enough.
- HitchDied Nice weather doesn’t make me hate running any less. Street harassment makes me hate it much, much more.
- femmeniste “Damn girl. Mmmm.” Oh, great… looks like #StreetHarassment season came early. #Gross #NYC
- natalieraymond I’d almost forgotten how much worse street harassment gets as soon as the big puffy coats come off.
- Muhammad_J http://bit.ly/fI4yKT ‘Up to 100% of American women suffer street harassment.’ So let’s not bash #Egypt Arab/Muslims for Logan’s ordeal.
- SparkerPants I usually chase aftr thm, proposng marriage. RT @GuyKawasaki: A questionnre 4 men who catcall womn http://is.gd/a1VTsh
- hollyface Wow, in a 10 minute walk I got sleazed on twice. Street harassment is NOT COOL!
- Alyssa4602 The prevalence of sexual harassment and sexual assault in #Egypt is one of reasons a revolution was needed.
- Cairo_On_a_Cone #thistimenextyear THERE WILL BE NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE STREETS OF #EGYPT #Jan25 #tahrir #womenrights
