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:
Resist Harassment Lebanon Blog
Activism Shoutouts:
* Freeze the Tease campaign organizers in Mumbai, India
* Gawaahi in Pakistan
* Male allies Sean, Tim, and Jesse in USA
* “Adventures of Salwa” in Beirut, Lebanon
* Safe Slope in Brooklyn, New York, USA
In the News, on the Blogs:
* The 42, “Men of DC: Stop Harassing Women“
* Rookie, “First Encounters With the Male Gaze“
* The Riot, “TW: Street harassment“
* NOW Lebanon, “Why don’t women fight back?“
* Get Off My Soapbox, “My Street Harassment Journal“
* Radio Netherlands Worldwide, “Mumbai students hit back at eve-teasers“
* Yentha, “Essential Alternative: Rebel with a Cause“
* Baltimore City Paper, “The Best…and the Worst“
* There is No Fear in Love, “Coercion for a Good Cause? Consent in Everyday Life, Canvassing“
* The Times of India, “Flash mob tease for Bangalore“
* Girls who eat their feelings, “One Stone“
* The Times of India, “Cell to curb eve-teasing“
* Broad Recognition, “Street Walking: Sexual Harassment in Jaipur, India“
* Youth Activ8, “Steps to curb eve teasing“
* The Gossip blog, “Anti-Street Harassment Activism starts TOMORROW!!“
* Decording Dress, “Street Harassment (?) and Me || Why I Wore It“
* MSNBC, “NYPD’s warning about skirts irks Brooklyn women“
Announcements:
New:
* Congratulations to HarassMap in Egypt for winning the World Summit Youth Award from the United Nations for their anti-street harassment work!
* Last Monday, Stop Street Harassment launched a new weekly “Street Respect” series highlighting the type of stories we want to see instead of street harassment stories!
Reminders:
* 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
15 Tweets from the Week:
1. KimFoxWOSU Today was a milestone: walked through the Khan el Khalili by myself and didn’t get sexually harassed! A-maze-ing! #Cairo #Egypt #EndSH #wwpw
2. WomSocBangor wolf whistled, fat or slut shamed, told to “give us a smile, love”, “get your tits out” or “show us your legs” it’s still #streetharassment!
3. HollaBackBmore Had a good meeting with the mgmt of Canton Safeway – they are not ok with #streetharassment in their store! Don’t leer at their customers!
4. hollabackWY Driving in hot weather, saw many topless males. Didn’t feel urge to shout sexualised/derogatory comment once. Funny that #streetharassment
5. SPARKsummit 22 percent of girls have experienced street harassment by age 12, and 87 percent by age 19. What can we do to end this? bit.ly/mWw06L
6. BookElfLeeds I shitting HATE #streetharassment. I hardly get it but that’s not the point. If one of us is harassed we are ALL harassed. #solidarity innit
7. SpookSquad Try had his whole family with him. RT @hkearl RT @EngyG: A man can harass you, even if his 5 yrs old daughter is with him! #endSH #Egypt
8. thewholeplate catcall of the day: “i love you, jewish girl!” i am sick and trying to buy kombucha. go away.
9. RenPassion #LawsMenShouldFollow Not all women are going to want your attention. No, it’s not a compliment when you catcall us.
10. emilyhughes Guy passes me on the sidewalk, leans in close, whispers, “Nice walk.” Officially the creepiest catcall I’ve gotten in 6 years here. #ew
11. lillyheart It is 645 in the morning! I am buying breakfast! Can the #streetharassment at least wait until the sun is up?!? I’m mean without coffee!
12. MohammedY Fellow Egyptian men, as you walk through the streets, spare a thought for your fellow women who often can’t do that due to harassers #EndSH
13. thetrudz #somewhereInTheHood there’s a woman enduring street harassment while men pretend it’s acceptable & women tell her be glad for “attention.”
14. ElizabethOwens Langelan, Kearl say activism on #streetharassment can be a portal for other feminist activism & social change, here and abroad. #AAUW
15. gwssprof Have more to say about the #femd2011 issue of street harassment/Slutwalk? Post a comment on my open thread! rm34.us/719
