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:
* Psychology Today, “‘Hey Baby’ Hurts“
* Essence, “Real Talk: Protecting Our Girls From Predators“
* NPR, “‘Holla Back DC!’ Calls Out Street Harassment“
* Bell Bajao, “Don’t Call Me, ‘Eve’”
* Richmond.com, “Hollaback! Network Comes To Richmond“
* The Third Estate, “Walk this way?“
* Te Waha Nui, “Women harrassed in the street start to holler back“
* Queens Chronicle, “A different groper in Jackson Heights” and YourNabe.com, “Lawmakers warn residents of E. Elmhurst groper“
* Jezebel, “Woman-Only Earphones are Strong Enough for Him But Made Just for Suckers“
* Yahoo News, “American girl in Italy: 60 years later” and my response on Stop Street Harassment, “‘American Girl in Italy’ DOES Depict Street Harassment“
* Groundswell Voices, “Jonell on Sexual Harassment, Street Harassment and “Hey Shorty!””
* Tip of a Tongue, “Open Letter #2.“
Announcements:
New:
* Are you in Baltimore, MD? A Goucher College student is looking for focus group participants to talk about street harassment as part of her thesis research. Details.
Reminders/On-Going:
* Do you have a stare that can turn #streetharassers to stone? Then participate in the Medusa Gaze Project! http://tinyurl.com/6fhh3tz
* Sign Mend the Gap’s petition to address subway harassment in Delhi, India
* 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. shani_o: No, old guy on the street that I do not know, I would not like to go to lunch with you
2. wardasahra @e_Chill I speak as a girl, and those street ‘flirts’ never make me smile or grin. They are never welcome and I view it as harassment.
3. sydmosley Despite the fact that #streetharassment sucks, there is a sisterhood, comraderie, mutuality in shared experience that is empowering.
4. femmeniste “Man, I need to get me a white girl,” says guy on the street while pointing at me. #Subtle #streetharassment #comeahhhhhhn
5. clairesgould Thursday night with a side of #streetharassment. Ugh. Come on, DC. The count is getting a bit high for August.
6. sallyzohney Been told harassment verbal n physical in #hussein skyrocketing in ramadan,almost no tourists around,street beggars all around. Sad!@EngyG
7. Salencita Still can’t describe how sad, yet comforted, I am that this tumblr exists howmanywomen.tumblr.com Street Harassment Sucks.
8. FeistyFeminist1 Don’t stare at me until I’m uncomfortable, say “Hey, Baby”, and then chuckle as I scoff & walk away. Asshole. #streetharassment
9. CharriseRenee It’s definitely not polite to beep your horn incessantly or catcall a young lady… #NoBueno
10. evachen212 Just heard a guy catcall a girl (not me, thank god) by shrieking “hey, sugar booger”. men, please note: that is not at all appealing
