Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week and find relevant announcements and upcoming street harassment events.
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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can read new street harassment stories on the Web from the past week at:
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In the News, on the Blogs:
* Mid-Day, “Vengeful eve-teaser’s gang kills youth, injures two“
* Good Intentions Co., “An Open Letter to All Cat Callers“
* Ses Turkiye, “Turkish women organise against harassment“
* Pakistan Today, “Harassment on public transportation a daily ordeal for women“
* CNN, “Covert peepers try to skirt Hong Kong police“
* Wall Street Journal India Real Time, “Mumbai Journal: You Are Being Watched — And Snapped“
* Youth and Culture, “Nasawiya and YCC on a roll-up-your-sleeves campaign to stop sexual harassment“
* Jezebel, “Women Told They Must Ride In The Back Of The Bus In Brooklyn”
* EcoSalon, “Handling Street Harassment Like Thelma and Louise“
* The Times of India, “Stress on tough measures to curb crime against women“
* Fem2.0, “What Steven Greenstreet Doesn’t Understand About Space, Gender, and Occupying Wall Street“
* Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, “Taking back our power: SAFIRE talks about street harassment“
* Amy Elizabeth, “The One With All The Street Harassment“
* SWSL, “Stop Whistling, Start Listening”
* Time, “Emily May, Harassment Avenger“
* CNN, “One of two suspects released in connection with sex attacks“
Announcements:
New:
* Participate in a “Taking Back Halloween” contest and show off your creativity for creating non-sexy costumes
Reminders:
* Donate to Students Active for Ending Rape so they can mentor and teach students to advocate for safer campuses!
* If you’re in London, help a Ph.D. student out with her dissertation research by meeting to share your street harassment stories.
* Contribute to the Monday “Street Respect” series that highlights the type of stories we want to see instead of street harassment stories!
* Call for men to share views/stories about street harassment
* 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. Femmeniste Getting catcalled while wearing oversized raincoat w/my hood up. #streetharassment is about gender, power, not clothing
2. MediaCupid All I heard was “young lady! Can I pay you for..” before I completely tuned out. #streetharassment
3. NadaHKandil Standing in Makram Ebeid waiting for the uni bus makes me feel like a cookie around a bunch of ants. :/ #EndSH
4. amarshabby Walking on talaat harb, a bunch of men started singing love song to 3 women who don’t no them. #endSH in Cairo
5. SpookSquad It is too f*!king early in he morning for this. Stop Street Harassment at gas stations at 5 something in the F’ing morning.
6. toriaar Teaching young boys to reaffirm their masculinity through harassing women makes for a pretty pathetic male population. #Egypt #EndSH
7. amarshabby Some guy just tried chatting me up and wouldn’t go away. #EndSH in #Egypt
8. UrbanBedu does co-ed education help men develop emotional maturity and in effect help reduce sexual harassment on the street?
9. kiranmanral RIP Keenan Santos. You stood up for what is right. You protested against street sexual harassment. You didn’t deserve to lose your life.
10. Karnythia How many of you have been terrified by #streetharassment? How many have had to resort to fight/flight?”
