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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Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
Ruth’s Corner, “I’m wearing shorts. Get over it.“
INews880AM, “Slut Walk takes place in Edmonton“
MidDay, “Eve teasers drive girl to consume poison“
BBC News, “‘SlutWalk’ march in Cardiff but what is the message?“
Guardian, “Bidisha’s thought for the day: Charity muggers“
Washington Post, “SlutWalks and the future of feminism“
Women, Women Everywhere, “Street Harassment“
Bitch Media, “Takin’ it to the Streets: The Perfect Victim (Part I)“
Love Matters, “‘No groping’ on Bogota’s buses“
Mustbol, “I flashed a mob and I liked it“
Minneapolitan Mademoiselle, “On Street Harassment“
Love Stutter, “The Window Sex Project“
Mazzie, “To the girl who called me a fatass on the bus“
Announcements:
New:
Watch the new anti-street harassment film out of Nottingham, UK.
On-going:
* Help fund the Hey, Shorty! on the road book tour to end gender-based violence in schools and on the streets.
* 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
* 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
20 Tweets from the Week:
1. mariellagross Street harassment aint no joke
2. kdflygirl No street harassment 2day, bcuz I’m out with male friends. What a difference, loving my city right about now..
3. jennimiller76 it’s summer, which means #streetharassment
4. kaitmacmurray I was sexually harrassed on the street this morning by employees of Alpine Roofing in their company vehicle.RT if you are against harassment
5. HollabackOttawa Here is our obligatory HOLY F*CK IT’S HOT OUTSIDE post. And our obligatory WHY MUST #STREETHARASSMENT BE THE REAL SIGN OF SUMMER post. Ugh.
6. ChantigaloBEroc I need a service animal in the form of a bullmastiff. I think that would drastically reduce my stress and street harassment encounters.
7. RCTuri: I HATE street harassment. And some men have the AUDACITY to approach me when I have my children.
8. dcGirl_202 Street harassment so bad today I had two separate occurrences of dudes actually following me home. One on a bike, one in a minivan. FML.
9. jennpozner Tip: Saying God BLESS you! in a lewd tone doesn’t make your #streetharassment any less obnoxious. Nor more, what, spiritual?
10. FeistyFeminist1 Great. #streetharassment on Georgia Ave. My least favorite way to start a Friday night.
11. nermine_lawyer We should solve the problem of sexual harassment in the streets! I think old cloodbey street was a good solution in 1944! Let’s find one now
12. purplepeace79 Street harassment destroys women’s spirits, their self-esteem, & contributes to why so many women are distrustful of men
13. reagansleepy Yes, I appreciate your sexual harassment, 38 year old fat guy across the street. I totally wanna get in your pants.
14. NvrComfortable Men who see and want to end the harm street harassment does to women should talk to other men. That’s one of the only ways it’ll change.
15. HollabackEP #aintnothingsexyabout yelling “HEY! SEXY!” to women walking by. #aintnothingsexyabout street harassment, period.
16. shotlowr Going 2 #slutwalk la today was wonderful, it almost helped mitigate the #streetharassment I experienced outside my apartment when I got home
17. TheNotoriousYEG Just got sexually harassed on the bus by some fucking creep wearing a northlands security shirt. #streetharassment strong urge to punch…
18. HOLLAs are coming to Brasil, Wellington, and West Yorkshire on 8/10! Follow them now: @HollabackBrasil @hollabackWY @HollabackWgtn
19. thetrudz @sammieolivia @NvrComfortable Agreed. It is rarely safe to be friendly in public as it only heightens street harassment versus deterring it.
20. TheBlueStone It’s not just harassment & z disgusting words they impose on our ears 4no reason than just we happen to be women on the street #egymen #WTF
