(Better a day late than not at all, right? 🙂
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:
Stop Street Harassment Blog | “Street Respect” stories
In the News, on the Blogs:
* Spartan Daily, “Catcalling should not be acceptable in our society“
* Coffee Talk, “Police advise girls not to wear school uniform skirts on public transit“
* xo Jane, “It Happened to Me: I Was Groped“
* ABC 7, “Victor McEachin charged with stabbing Metro bus driver“
* The Guardian, “Guatemalan women hail single-sex buses“
* Al Arabiya News, “Moroccan activists launch campaign against sexual harassment“
* The Times of India, “Bikers slash girl for protesting eve-teasing“
* Ses Turkiye, “Turkish women organise against harassment“
* The Financial Express, “Unbearable rise in ‘Eve teasing’“
* Reuters, “”Fight Back” phone app to protect women in India“
* The Good Men Project, “Men May Never Truly Understand a Day in the Life of Women. But Shouldn’t We Try“
* Jezebel, “Girls Told To Stop Wearing School Uniform Skirts To Ward Off Perv“
Announcements:
New:
* 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.
Reminders:
* Two weeks ago Stop Street Harassment launched a new weekly “Street Respect” series highlighting 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. k_mukai Too many gals (me included) ignore street harassment. Kinda proud I just heard a lady say, “im not interested. go away or I will mace you”
2. nelldrik Nothing starts the day off right like a double dose of street harassment! #ohwait
3. UrbanBedu does co-ed education help men develop emotional maturity and in effect help reduce sexual harassment on the street?
4. 01_gav In other news, today my friend & I got some low-level homophobic street harassment. Slightly baffled: I don’t think we looked like a couple.
5. AlizaySteinberg One of the reasons I take cabs is so I can avoid street harassment when walking home at night. Sucks that instead, I get cabbie harassment.
6. EndStHarassment Burlington, VT – Guy wolfwhistled at me from his truck on my walk to work. Left me raw and feeling unsafe all day. #EndStreetHarassment
7. thetrudz Sometimes when ppl are really rude to me I am really polite. Like call a street harassment dude “Sir” and watch his puzzlement.
8. rosefox @divakarssathya The day women engage in street harassment is the day I stop generalizing about men being harassers.
9. beenasarwar Unacceptable. RT @nongenderous: RT @coracalliope: I hate it when people dismiss #streetharassment by saying “boys will be boys.” #sheparty
10. HannahHaniya Later I was catcalled by a middle-aged white man in a newish sedan. Easy to forget street harassment is not restricted to developing world.
