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
Street Harassment in South Africa
Many of the Hollaback sites
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* Eliminating the Impossible, “Street Harassment 102: When You’re Blind and a Woman“
* Washington Post, “In Egypt, a backlash against harassment“
* International Business & Law, “Brussels’ Offensive-Language Fines Highlight Widespread Sexual Harassment“
* Think Progress, “Judge To Woman Sexually Assaulted By Cop: ‘When You Blame Others, You Give Up Your Power To Change’”
* The Flick, “I Ain’t No Hollaback Girl” | The Flick, “Why I Shout At Street Harassers“
* The Raw Story, “It’s Really Time for the Harassment to End“
* South Dakota Public Broadcasting, “Street harassment affects lives of women and girls“
* Fair Observer, “Natasha Smith: Is This Egypt?”
* ArgusLeader.com, “Native women: Street harassment common“
* Art in Praxis, “Shift Happens: Street Harassment and Cultural Organizing“
* The Thang Blog, “Street harassment and being treated like a lady“
* Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m Indie and You’re Punk, “This is still what a feminist looks like“
* Scotsman.com, “Campaign aims to stop harassment in street“
* UnWinona, “I debated whether or not to share this story;” Jezebel, “Stranger on a Train: ‘I Would Fucking Kill You Bitch’”
* Memoirs of an Egyptian, “On sexual harassment: Dear men, you don’t know too much“
* Hanna Brooks Olsen, ““The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”“
* Jezebel, “Don’t You Dare Ask Me Why I Look Mad“
* Khaleej Times, “Teaching women to stand up for rights”
Announcements:
New:
* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.
* There’s a new anti-harassment campaign in Mumbai, India, called Chal Hatt Tharki.
* Hollaback launched 7 new sites
Reminders:
* 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. @alisonturkos Nothing like being harassed on your way to brunch! #streetharassment
2. @Morgane_R I think most ppl would be surprised to know that I experienced more #streetharassment in the states than abroad in costa rica. #fem2
3. @monaeltahawy #Egypt is becoming synonymous with street sexual harassment and assault – it’s a national shame! http://wapo.st/PbSnSR #EndSH
4. @lesellele #Streetharassment is not about compliments but about sexualized aggression and reminding a woman of her “place”
5. @iHollaback From our twitter feed, “if you hadn’t left the kitchen, there wouldn’t be any “victims” of #streetharassment.” The work continues, it seems.
6. @SirJoshBennett Thinking about street harassment. About what role a man’s voice can have in helping to stop that sort of violence.
7. @amyuncorked @theflickgirls got bum groped when jogging, turned &shouted FUCK OFF then spent rest of jog worrying that had offended others #why #mental
8. @sallyzohney If u know any anti harassment initiative in Egypt plz link me/share their info, I’m compiling for a big research. thnx #EndSH
9. @Karnythia On Street Harassment, Victim Blaming & Life in My Skin #streetharassment #endSH
10. @Morgane_R Yet another day of #streetharassment while out walking our dog, Joplin. One of the things I hate about our move back to #NYC. #fem2
11. @S_Takoza @hkearl Mariam Khaled “7 years” from the 2nd protest against sexual harassment in #minia #EndSH https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=194828347315746&set=a.192331694232078.47809.191475237651057&type=1&relevant_count=1 … 🙂
12. @thetrudz There goes a Black man justifying street harassment. File this under “all the goddamn time.” But cop harassment of you is wrong, right? FOH
13. @sarcastathon For those of you who think it’s just me who suffers from street harassment or that I’m exaggerating: go read @theflickgirls‘ timeline.
14. @ljoywilliams Calling out body parts or yelling out how you would like to sexual violate me IS #StreetHarassment
15. @vanbakes I CANNOT take another minute of the #streetharassment in #Dublin.
