Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week.
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Street Harassment Stories:
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Many of the Hollaback sites
In the News, on the Blogs:
* The Saudi Gazette, “Public defamation the answer to women harassment?“
* MYD Blog, “Facing Gender Violence on NYC Transit“
* The New York Post, “‘Groper’ shot“
* ColorLines, “Pass the Mic: Transgender Women in Chocolate City Tell Their Stories“
* Kansas State Collegian, “Catcalling obnoxious, harmful to both genders“
* Feminist Legal Theory, “Stranger sexual harassment part 1“
* BlogHer, “I Just Want to Go on a Walk“
* Safe Streets AZ, “Your public library is helping to end street harassment“
* Rooted in Being, “Female Activists Worldwide“
* ABC Local, “Woman groped in Times Square, photographs suspect“
* News One, “STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually Assaulted“
* The Times of India, “Khar most unsafe for women in western suburbs“
* CJOB radio, “Hollaback Winnipeg To Fight Back Against Street Harassment” & Winnipeg Free Press, “Anti-harassment activists will Hollaback! in Winnipeg“
* Boston Magazine, “Think Before You Catcall“
* The Doctor Weighs In, “Wanna harass me? iHollaback“
Announcements:
New:
* The Adventures of Salwa campaign launched a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.
* In Bangalore, India, there is a new helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023
* Hollaback added 11 new cities to its international campaign
* During the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Stop Street Harassment is featured 16 names women do NOT want to be called by strangers on the streets.
* Find 6 ideas for holiday gifts that promote safe public spaces.
Reminders:
* You can purchase the Stop Street Harassment book for 50% off right now!
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. charlenec_85 I love men. I really do. Y’all need to get the street harassment out for real for real. It’s violent and makes me feel unsafe.
2. bedlamfury A girl cries. She’s relating an experience of street harassment by a group of Mat Rempits [Malay youth bikers]. She feels ashamed. #mzz1
3. StefkaB I firmly believe that dudes who catcall from moving cars do so because they are cowards who need a quick getaway post-rejection.
4. laurenonizzle It’s not flattering, it’s not innocent and it’s not acceptable. #StreetHarassment
5. RaghdaRagaie What hurts me the most is that all the men standing in the street that watch me walk there everyday never speak up. #endSH #enough
6. nourammarr Today, I stood up for myself and it was awesome. #HellYeah #EndSH
7. lattershed ladies. street harassment is not the price we pay to exist as women in public spaces. don’t let anyone make you feel otherwise.
8. mlenaghen27 That awkward moment when you run past a hockey team and they catcall at you….#onlymylife
9. atticascott @Alliance4Girls Have y’all ever looked into how many girls in #Louisville have experienced #streetharassment?
10. monaeltahawy @DeftAmazon Thanks. Impt 2 make that point and to make a distinction between street sexual harassment and state-sanctioned sexual violence
