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:
* The Hairpin, “Snappy Things to Yell Back at Construction Workers“
* India Today, “Bhopal girls organize ‘slut walk‘”
* The Times of India, “Special teams to combat eve-teasing“
* Al Jazeera English, “Afghan women fight back against harassment“
* MSNBC, “Afghan women rally, turning men red-faced with anger“
* Women’s Views on News, “Afghan women march against street harassment – today“
* Relando Thompkins, “It’s Not a Compliment, It’s Harassment“
* Bangalore Mirror, “Mapping city’s mean streets“
* Clutch, “Ladies, Sometimes We All We Got“
* Daijiworld.com, “Students Protest Against Private Bus Operators, Allege Harassment of Girls“
* Tentacles of doom, “Rape, privilege, and stupidity“
* Al Masry Al Youm, “The Sexual Harassment File: Foreign women in Egypt and harassment“
* Al Masry Al Youm, “The Sexual Harassment File: Men overlooked“
* Feministing Community, “What do Slut Walks have to do with street harassment?“
* Feministing, “Afghan women fight for safe streets“
Announcements:
New:
* Do you have a stare that can turn #streetharassers to stone? Then participate in the Medusa Gaze Project! http://tinyurl.com/6fhh3tz
Reminders/On-Going:
* Sign Mend the Gap’s petition to address subway harassment in Delhi, India
* 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. neversent Is today National Street Harassment Day and no one told me?
2. jmcgivering Afghan women just staged first protest against harassment in the street – from insults to sexual assault. Even when wearing burqa.
3. femmeniste Seriously, have ya never seen a pretty lady before? Must you gasp and say “Damn.” GAWD. #StreetHarassment #KeepItToYourself
4. tanyasnarks Creepy dude following me down the street told me he wanted to eat me- in French and English. Double points for dual language harassment?
5. RobynAnnie Prefers White Sox to Cubs based solely on the level of street harassment I’ve incurred from each type of fan.
6. DeeshaPhilyaw Just experienced street harassment while walking w/MiniMe (12). “Mom, is that guy drunk?” “No, he’s just an idiot w/a sense of entitlement.”
7. musingvirtual Does anyone else think it’s weird when people bring God into street compliments and harassment? God didn’t pick out my outfit. #hollaback
8. ryssiebee: I want to write a book about street harassment called “Fuck You” and then…just flash the cover.
9. Leacyyy Whenever guys catcall me I pretend I’m deaf. Not working so well on the car of guys slowly following me. Oh jersey city
10. sassmasterdeane Street harassment is The Worst. I always feel like a sucker if I smile but a bitch if I don’t. #cantwin
