Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.
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Street Harassment Stories:
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Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
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Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* Heeb Magazine, “A Woman’s Guide to Hasidic Street Harassment“
* New York Times, “For Women in Street Stops, Deeper Humiliation“
* Khabar Southeast Asia, “Nepali youth combat “Eve teasing” with awareness“
* Al-Shorfa, “Egyptian women organise against harassment“
* Ms. Blog, “Street Harassment Fuels a Viral Documentary“
* Powered by Girl, “My new perspective on street harassment“
* Good Women, “A Story On Confidence, Compliments, And Street Harassment“
* Feminspire, “A Letter To The Guy Who Catcalled Me On The Street“
* The Independent, “Whistling, pinching, “sweetheart” – it’s all harassment“
* Princess Lasertron, “how a collective of female friends helped me stand up to street harassment“
* Happy Paradox, “A Conversation About Street Harassment“
* The Onion, “Weird, Area Woman Wasn’t Harassed Today“
* Week Woman, “Twitter Reveals How Far We Have To Go Before Street Harassment Ends“
Announcements:
New:
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* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project
* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment
* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!
* Help fund a new film about street harassment
* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.
* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA
* 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
* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk
15 Tweets from the Week:
1.@Sister_Storm #streetharassment is alive and well especially in hot weather. I wore these clothes so I wont melt in the heat NOT for your benefit #endSH
2. @Distorted_Moth Oh, French douchebags. It’s sure that if you whistle to me like you’re calling a dog, I’m gonna strip and suck your dick. #streetharassment
3.@puellaradical @sydneyanderson keep men on their own island so they can catcall each other
4. @maropetro I don’t know why I thought wearing a sweater on the way to the bus stop would keep me from getting hollered at. #endSH
5. @ellistuhler Surely the sidewalk-biker who craned his neck to catcall a teenager learned a lesson in karma when he subsequently crashed into a mailbox.
6. @adelin Sometimes I wonder when I make kissy sounds to dogs I meet on the street, if that’s the doggy equivalent of a catcall. #harassment
7.@BlondeonaBeach Why do men equivalent to my dads age feel its ok to yell/catcall/whistle at me and my friends..
8.@nualacabral Just had a dialogue with #Poppyn about #streetharassment. We have to engage the #youth if we want to see change. Powerful discussion. #EndSH
9. @SpookSquad Leaving store about to cross to parking lot, four dudes in black car stop in middle of road to block/yell at me. #StreetHarassment @hkearl
10. @plitter I will never understand why some men think it’s okay to catcall, or why some women are okay with being on the receiving end of it. #ugh
11. @demonista Belgium film on street harassment strikes a chord across Europe http://gu.com/p/39gxz/tw READ and WATCH THIS. “public” domain is still male.
12.@colorlessblue A guy i actually liked smiled respectfully and i frowned at him in reflex before i realized it! STREET HARASSMENT RUINS EVERYTHING!
13. @nehedari wild goose chase in haifa. amazing how “romantic” street harassment is near arab bus station. “I will kidnap u, marry u, make many babies”
14. @habibahamid Hate it. Chased in cities, cars for miles, on foot RT Street harassment and power of hard evidence v @RizMC @helenlewis http://j.mp/NQyOjF
15. @silverspeakers Last night’s #streetharassment started w cat calls. Then… Me: “we’re not walking here for you.” dudes: “Boooo! Unghhh!”
