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Snapshot of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: April 15, 2012

April 15, 2012 By HKearl

By a student at Carelton College

Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

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HarassMap in Egypt

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Safe Streets in Yemen

Many of the Hollaback sites

In the News, on the Blogs:

* Awesome Women of Twitter, “Street harassment & racism“

* Knots & Crosses, “Sexual Harassment in Egypt, A Perfectionist Ideal?“

* Better off with Ken, “Ken unveils new measures to make Londoners safer in his crime manifesto“

* MSNBC, “‘Where is justice?’ Afghans march to protest violence against women“

* Julianabrit, “Manifesto To That Guy On the Street“

* Delicious Kaek, “Street harassment in Providence“

* NY Daily News, “Manhattan groper on the loose after 4 incidents, cops say“

* Empty Nest Expat, “Breaking the Silence on Street Harassment in Istanbul“

* The Blind Hem, “Hey Girl, Hey!“

* The world according to nouns (She’s a carnival), “Adventures in street harassment“

Activism Announcements:

New:

* Activists in London have successfully pressured Mayor of London candidate Ken Livingstone to propose a campaign against street harassment

* Check out Isobel Williams’ amazing design project to address street harassment

* Men in San Jose, California, share their bystander intervention retorts for when other men street harass women.

Reminders:

* If you’re in the New York City area, take this survey about harassment on public transportation.

* Gay and bisexual men, take this survey about street harassment (you can be in any location).

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

20 Tweets from the Week:

1. @utoledoUTURN Friend working @ mtn resort, followed by drunk tourist guys yelling I hope u have pepper spray–ur gonna need it. #streetharassment #endSH

2.@HollabackBXL #ThingsThatFrustrateMe being harassed 3 times in about 10 min in the centre of #Brussels #Bruxelles #Brussel. #endSH

3. @evaholland Street harassment levels in Yellowknife are at least 2x the already irritating Whitehorse volume. This is not an endearing trait in a city.

4. @chaneldubofsky on #facebook, someone suggests that the recipient of #street #harassment take it as compliment. head exploding. @StopStHarassmnt

5. @subculturestuff #realmendont catcall women in the streets. #streetharrassment

6. @GiuliaRozzi “Damn girl, if we got together I’d love the shit outta dat ass” – catcall/new urban marketing campaign for laxatives.

7. @jennepenne Tis the season where undergrads catcall women walking down the street with their kids.

8.  @gottofly I’m NOT a CAT, I dont respond to “hisst” or anyother catcall. If you’re NOT my kid dont call me MOMMA. Ladies want MEN, NOT DOGS, or KIDS.

9.  @TheNewAnnHirsch whats worse, men who catcall you on the street or men who r trying to sell u something on the street? both r SOO ANNOYING

10. @BoozyBlondBetch I don’t know why men in the city think it’s perfectly acceptable to #catcall women #ThingsThatFrustrateMe #AreYouKiddingMe

11.‏ @marlsgastrock Excuse me, do not catcall me on west mall to try and get me to join your organization.. Definitely WILL NOT work. #degrading #rude

12.  @clairesgould Alright, seriously DC? #Streetharassment twice in one day, on the same street?! #notok #ew

13. @hollabackWY On other side of the road, just saw three 10yo boys whistle and make meow noises at a 10yo girl. She looked mortified #streetharassment

14. @RapeCrisisSth Reflecting on hustings last night – why is the response to street harassment from all mayor candidates about surveillance? #ldnsafe4women

15. @t_wit99 #WhatWeTellGirls: laugh off street harassment & take it as a ‘compliment’. #IsThisReal?

16. @cockdestroyer Tips for avoiding street harassment: Travel by jetpack.

17. @_thejam_walk to turner field complete with street harassment, Oh Happy Day Mama

18. @DoYourWarDance FUCK STREET HARASSMENT. It was an EVERYDAY thing when I worked in the Regions Bank building, walking around downtown.

19. @PoppyCollinson Be nice to see this many police in central #Bristol on a weekend evening when we are basically just left to face the street harassment

20. @sarahmerra My beautiful day is getting ruined by street harassment. Men need to be taught that there are limits, and their intrusions permanently hurt.

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