In Yemen more than 90 percent of women experience street harassment. Last year Ghaidaa Al Absi launched The Safe Streets campaign to address the problem. She created a website, using Ushahidi, to track street harassment in Yemen and recently she hosted an exhibition of local artists’ work on the topic. I’ll post an interview with her soon, in the meantime, view images from the exhibition. Here’s one of them. 
This image reminds me of something an attendee said during the Q&A at my talk last February at James Madison University. She said, “Street harassment teaches women that they are prey and that it’s safer to stick with the herd.” It’s sad but true how, because of street harassment and sexual violence, women often feel unsafe in public unless they are in a group. Even in Yemen, where women are very modestly dressed and veiled, they still face street harassment and are the prey with street harassers as the predators. Street harassment is not about what we wear or how we look, it’s about disrespect for women.
beckie says
great cartoon, so sad it is true!