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:
I accept street harassment submissions from anywhere in the world. Share your story! You can read new street harassment stories on the Web from the past week at:
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
1. SaraEileen.com, “A Many-Headed Serpent (on street harassment)“
2. Der-Morgenstern, “Seething“
3. Gender Across Borders, “Anti-Street Harassment and the DC Community Safety Audit: Part 2“
4. Bitch Magazine, “Takin’ it to the Streets: Walking Home with Nuala Cabral“
5. Persephone Magazine, “Micro-aggressions, Cat-calling, and Triggers, Oh My! A Record of Harassment“
6. Ms. blog, “Laying the Smackdown on HIS Candy Ass“
7. Small Strokes, “Guest Post: Educators’ Roles in Preventing Sexual Harassment in School“
8. Venus Genus, “A Man’s Perspective on Street Harassment“
9. For the Masses, “Ladies: Warm Weather is Upon Us and So Is The Enhancement of Street Harassment“
10. Mid-Day.com, “Now, ladies special in BEST buses“
11. Deccan Chronicle, “Not so fast but furious“
12. Gender Focus, “Women in Bangladesh: Rejecting Ridicule, Demanding Respect“
Announcements:
New:
* Needed: your feedback on international anti-street harassment day 2011 & your ideas for 2012 http://tinyurl.com/44f7bef
* Fight Street Harassment with Your Spare Change http://t.co/TKeve2e via @swipegood
On-going:
* Help fund the Hey, Shorty! on the road book tour to end gender-based violence in schools and on the streets.
* If you live in Atlanta, Georgia, take a MARTA survey so Hollaback Atlanta can better tackle harassment on public transportation
* College students, enter the Hollaback essay contest, entries due August 1.
* 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:
1. juliezeilinger First experience with New York City street harassment. I am not a fan.
2. kimhorne Ugh. Potentially innocent comments make me insecure. Actual #streetHarassment makes me a wreck. #notFitForOutsideLife
3. FeministLetters Feel angry & negative after more street harassment. I want to live in a world where I can walk the streets as a person not an object.
4. AmberLManning Semi drivers excessively honking at females is a form a cat calling/harassment. #sickofit
5. caracourchesne Just put my car in reverse to tell a #streetharassment dbag to #stfu. Don’t need it today or any other day, friend.
6. hadearkandil Over 80% of women in #Egypt experience sexual harassment. WE NEED TO END THIS. Pls RT. https://stopstreetharassment.org/ via @hkearl
7. Cillygrrl14 Thinking that I left Scotland largely because of street harassment & assault (two friends hospitalised), unsurprised at Edinburgh Council.
8. shannonmarie7 Rainydays are gooddays in NewYork. Women wear more &men have less to catcall @ Rain is not for the plants, it’s for us girls #newyorkcitymen
9. talkingparcel I will never judge women for wearing dark glasses when it’s not sunny again. They’re really handy #preventionisrad #streetharassment
10. musingvirtual #Mystique – if i could change appearance whenever i wanted to, i’d use it to avoid street harassment. /cc @katebornstein @hurlingthecat
