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:
Many of the Hollaback sites
New Activism:
* There’s new art-focused activism happening in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
1) Hannah Price, a 25-year-old photographer, photographed some of her street harassers and they’re part of an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through December 4;
2) Kara Lieff, a sophomore studying Film & Media Arts and Women’s Studies at Temple University, created a PSA about street harassment for a class project.
* Street Harassment Tumblr: “Street Harassment Tumblr is just a running commentary on the normal street harassment that I experience day to day.”
In the News, on the Blogs:
* Huffington Post, “Six Ways for Dads and Moms to Help Daughters Deal With Street Harassment“
* Daily News, “Woman snaps picture of ‘coward’ in subway groping, then picks him out of lineup“
* Hello Giggles, “Dear Guys Who Make Kissy Noises at Me“
* Project Social Art, “Sex in Stock on the Street? – The Value of Women’s Bodies in Everyday Life“
* Hyphen Magazine, “Women are looking to the Internet to boldly respond to street harassment“
* Lip Magazine, “Street Harassment“
* Hindustan Times, “Squads against eve-teasing to patrol suburbs“
* The Opinioness of the World, “Guest Post: Street Harassment Stops When Men Say It Stops“
* The Linc, “‘Morning Sexy!’ – street harassment or just banter?“
* Occupy Wall Street, “Everyone has the Right to Occupy Space, Safely“
* Bikya Masr, “Egypt man killed after sexually harassing girls“
* The Forum, “Street Harassment is Still Serious: The violation of women in Dhaka’s public realm“
* The Times of India, “No quick-fix solution to curb sexual harassment menace: Prithviraj Chavan“
* Fem2.0, “The Bystander’s Intervention“
* The Times of India, “Special squad charges 12 with ‘indecent conduct‘”
* U Tv, “What should we do about sexist abuse online?“
* DNA, “Gauri Sinh: Heavy cost of protecting women in Maximum City“
Announcements:
New:
* Mumbia folks: From November 14-21, 2011, participate in the Mumbai – Stop Harassing Me Map!
Reminders:
* Sign the Zero Tolerance Campaign’s petition calling for stronger enforcement of laws banning street sexual harassment in India.
* Contact the California sandwich chain Togo’s and tell them that trivializing street harassment in their television ad is NOT okay.
* Street harassment is not okay: Watch a new 2 minutes cartoon about street harassment
* Sign the petition to tell Toronto Police to stop blaming victims for street harassment and sexual assault!!
* Contribute to the Monday “Street Respect” series that highlights the type of stories we want to see instead of street harassment stories!
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. blasianallie like do you expect us to respond to #streetharassment as if you’re complimenting us? REALLY? -_- #MenWeWantAnswers
2. mjbyars @RealtinConnor The fact is: #Prolife has done nothing but harass, intimidate, and kill women who get abortions. #prochoice #streetharassment
3. freya3377 Will they pick up this time? RT @Vidyut If you spot sexual harassment on the street, call 100 to report it #Mumbai. Let’s keep this working.
4. EndStHarassment #menwewantanswers Why do many of you catcall, whistle & shout at women on the street? It’s not a compliment to anyone. #endstreetharassment
5. nighatdad Street harassment is no difft than workplace harassment in its purpose & effect. Does law address ths form of harassment? #takebackthetech
6. kiranmanral Waiting a public place to pick up my niece and realising how omnipresent street sexual harassment is. 🙁
7. ClaireAtkinson8 Street photography easier for women? Very naive perspective, what with street harassment towards women at its highest peak.
8. ellyblue @pdxbikesnob @lovelybicycle street harassment is multi-modal. a great unifier.
9. MegRhi Here’s the asshole who thinks saying “hey baby” to me at bus stop is ok. #streetharassment #patriarchy pic.twitter.com/9IiZF5SV
10. FrenchieGlobal riding DC metro today for the 1st time in a while reminded me of why i carry pepper spray
