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:
* Mail Online, “Wolf-whistling workmen face the sack after they ‘intimidated’ distraught woman“
* The WIP, “Young Women Launch Afghanistan’s First Anti-Street Harassment Campaign“
* The Tribune, “Delhi stages Slut Walk“
* Al-Masry Al-Youm “Egyptian rights group rejects ‘women-only’ taxis“
* Clutch Magazine, “Rant: “Your Man Don’t Let You Have Friends?””
* Indian Express, “Unhappy Hours?“
* Venus Genus, “Street Harassment Becoming a Social Norm? Oh Hell No!“
* Mideastposts, “Promise of Arab Spring Failing to Deliver for Middle-Eastern Women“
Announcements:
New:
* Find ideas for creative ways to respond to street harassers
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
15 Tweets from the Week:
1. Kenya_D Until folks understand the ramifications of patriarchy, they will never fully grasp the factors that play into street harassment.
2. KimberlynnAce Wearing the same outfit i wore during the street harassment incident that inspired my thesis. Feeling strong. Here goes…
3. ruthie_dee Street harassment, BNP thugs and now half an hour in the BOILING Barnsley bus station. Save me twitter!
4. skyesidhe Don’t catcall me and say “don’t be shy” when i don’t respond. I’m not shy, I’m just not interested.
5. ljoywilliams Walking frm a mtg, guy comes up to me at a light says “Nice rack, can I touch” and reaches out to touch me.
6. ashcampaign Two builders have been fired for wolf-whistling at a woman. Am on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff Extra today talking about street harassment.
7. MustBol: How to take legal action in cases of Street Sexual Harassment! http://bit.ly/qDPpDI
8. priscillason And then some people screamed at me to look at their car. What do I look like I’m open to cowardly street harassment godamn let me alone
9. ajuonline Bunch of guys hooting and shouting “Hey honey” to a foreigner tourist family with2 possibly minor/teen girls. Street harassment #MeraBharat
10. FrenchieGlobal DC reminds me of Cairo in that pepper spray is a necessity to deal with street harassment from the locals
11. reachoutlk http://twitpic.com/5wj4jb Break The Silence. A forum on culture, domestic violence + harassment on public transport. Join us!
12. hollabackdc know some1 or have u been sexually assaulted after having a drink or two at Logan Tavern? please DM us. thx 4 helping us out
13. j_zimms Having a dog really improves the quality of street harassment. Feel free to yell at me out car windows about how beautiful he is any time!
14. MvIslington News – Women suffer sexual harassment in Finsbury Park street – A charity worker fears for her safety http://bit.ly/owlb7d
15. UroojZia Serious ques: Do we have laws against sexual harassment on the street in #Pakistan? Need to register FIR. Have bike number, 2 eyewitnesses.
