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:
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Many of the Hollaback sites
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* Glamour, “On Street Harassment“
* Ordinary Days, “Even Street Harassment Is Bigger Here: Or an apology to US feminist bloggers“
* Fat Heffalump, “On Street Harassment and Male Responsibility“
* Lawsonry, “Let Me Say No: Street Harassment and Disrespect“
* The Voice of Russia, “Sexual harassment in Russia“
* The Pioneer, “Chandigarh, a city of nightmares for women“
* The Old Jaw Jaw, “Every instance of street harassment ever“
* Africa Review, “Fighting Egypt’s sexual harassment epidemic, one step at a time“
* The Atlantic, “Dear New York: Please Make Subway ‘Grinding’ a Felony. Now.“
* Daily News, “Killer of sexual harassment victim arrested“
* ABC 7, “Mauricio Cornejo-Pena, ‘Dupont Circle Bicycle Groper’ suspect, could face deportation“
* STFU, Sexists, “Making the case for street harassment appreciation!“
* XO Jane, “It Happened To Me: I Had a Groper Arrested“
* CBS New York, “Cops: Man On Southbound No. 2 Train Exposes Himself To Female Passenger“
* Daily News, “Woman sues accused subway pervert boss for sexual harassment“
Announcements:
New:
* New York is considering a bill that would make harsher punishments for engaging in unwanted sexual touching in public spaces.
* A Russian activist group made a viral video about street harassment and has proposed anti-harassment legislation.
Reminders:
* Stop Street Harassment welcomes and announces its new board of directors!
* Harlow Project Seeking Participants For Street Harassment Web Video Series
* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment
* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.
* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.
* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.
* Activists in South Africa launched a website about street harassment
* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!
* 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. @Besito86 You never know when a catcall can lead to a verbal assault that can in turn lead to physical and/or sexual attack.
2.@kaatattackk I bet there is a positive correlation between men that slow down and stare/catcall/honk from their cars, and men who don’t get laid
3. @OhKelleh I genuinely wonder if guys who catcall think girls will turn to them and ask them for their number or something like seriously you are gross
4. @XedRegulus Did you know that back in the days of Vaudville, “Hello, nurse!” was a popular catcall?
5. @decaytourist “When you include the type of street harassment that queer people face in the street, it’s a much bigger group than just women.”
6. @jmsummers Thank you DC for reminding me why I carry pepper spray. Street harassment = not classy.
7. @devilherdue Instead of tweeting the particularly gross street harassment from this morning, I’ll just remind you that its a daily reality for women.
8. @wisemath Men: teach your sons, fellow male friends, cousins, nephews & brothers that STREET HARASSMENT IS NOT COOL. It’s bullying & scary. Just stop
9. @jeffperera Why We Walk: at age of 12, 1 of 4 girls have experienced street harassment, by 19 it is 90% #WalkAMileInHerShoes http://www.walkamiletoronto.ca @WamTO
10. @suzyfromaptos Ugh. Some creep just made kissy noises at me from his car. Not ok. Just not ok. #streetharassment
11. @MaiE_89 “If it happens that I refuse to give him money, I suddenly find him getting up with his belt, beating me…” #EndSH #Egypt
12. @sairakh Changed my walking route to work because of a man I see everyday who looks me up n down n whispers stuff at himself. #streetharassment
13. @EvrydayFeminism You’re walking down the street and someone whistles and shouts something vulgar at you. How do you respond? #streetharassment #fem2
14. @SocialJerkBlog Guys, if you’re not telling your dickhead friends to shut up when they harass women, you’re guilty too. Man up. #streetharassment #sickofit
15. @NihalSaad A guy stopped me at the street asking how he could join our campaign against Sexual harassment…thats so cool 😀 #endsh
Alejandra says
that was enjoyable. I’ve also rcenetly written about street harassment and gender roles for The Good Men Project and Hollaback!; gender non-conformity and the sexual appeal thereof (oh, and the movie A League of