“Walking home isn’t always just that simple. Many teenage girls deal with insults, confrontations, and unwelcome advances – making a seemingly routine trip, a scary ordeal. ‘Stop Street Harassment’ is a demonstration of this experience, from a young lady’s point of view.”
This important PSA against street harassment was created by Ashanti Smiley, Patrice Bishop, Demetrius Labon, and Anthony Walton, juniors and seniors in high school in Chicago.
They created the PSA through Free Spirit Media, which provides education, access, and opportunity in media production to over 500 of Chicago’s under-served urban youth every year.
Patrice Bishop, the female student featured in the video, said they decided to focus on street harassment because “street harassment was happening to a lot of young ladies and it is something in the community that needs to be changed.”
Agreed. And they are creating that change by identifying the problem and saying it’s not okay.
