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:
* Boston Herald, “Cellphone photo aids arrest in T groping“
* Seattle PI, “Police: man accused of slurs pinned to ground“
* Gulf News, “Kuwait: Nine men get hair shaved for harassing women“
* News Night 20-20, “Girl Beats Up Indian Soldier For Molesting Her“
* The Hindu, “Taking back the streets“
* L’Orient Le Jour, “Harcèlement au Liban : Dans la rue, les femmes inversent les rôles“
* UpTown, “The cloak of anonymity is about to be lifted“
* Notes from an Aspiring Humanitarian, “The People Who Inspire Series: Holly Kearl“
* Heather Hollywood, “Street Harassment: A Verbal Hollaback Call to a Few Good Men“
* The Nation, “Occupy the Holidays“
Announcements:
New:
* The 5th edition of the prestigious textbook Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology is now available. For this printing, they included a few pages about street harassment! (see #143)
* Students living in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, are encouraged to take a new street harassment survey. The survey is organized by Cymdeithas Y Merched Bangor Women’s Society.
* Attention NYC-based organizations: “Cornell-ILR is partnering with Hollaback! on a research project that includes a survey of NYC-based organizations that seeks to measure the extent to which their clients and staff report street harassment; how they typically respond to reports of street harassment; and whether there’s a perceived need for the development of methods to counteract street harassment”
* Young Women for Change has a lecture and discussion session on street harassment of women on Thursday, December 22nd. More details will be available on their site soon.
Reminders:
* 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
* Find 6 ideas for holiday gifts that promote safe public spaces.
* You can purchase the Stop Street Harassment book for 50% off right now!
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. ramymamlouk I just stopped 2 OnTheRun employees from harrasing a woman with their eyes. #SayNo to sexual harrassement to #endsh
2. KaylinSnailin Spent the night dreaming about teaching street harassers why street harassment is wrong. I’m not feeling rested, just angry.
3. hipcrit I think the kind of street harassment I hate the most is getting honked at. It’s so startling and loud.
4. Hollaback_DSM Question for our beatifully inked followers: How often do you get #streetharassment based on your tattoos? xojane.com/relationships/…
5. mernathomas #endSH is a call from women to women to end sexual harassment. No one is going to hand u ur rights on a silver platter. #Egypt #womenrights
6. senorita_ex Audio: Shady Hawkins, “WRATH” It’s a song I wrote about street harassment. It’s only a demo, and I might add… tmblr.co/ZJ0yWyDEs0HV
7. KZiegs #streetharassment tally over 4 miles: 3 honks, 1 whistle, 1 8yo yelling “Nice ass, jogger. Don’t stop!” out a school bus. @HollabackBoston
8. nualacabral Just had a productive meeting with an inspiring & brave young woman photographer, Hannah Price: hannahcprice.com/cityofbrotherl… #streetharassment
9. HollabackOttawa Although the weather is getting colder, there seems to be no end in sight for #streetharassment in #ottcity….
10. maps4aid Dadar, Kurla & Andheri are Mumbai’s worst spots for women: Zero Tolerance & Maps4Aid Initial Survey ow.ly/7XMf7 #StreetHarassment
