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:
* Global Press Institute, “Women Break Silence About Sexual Harassment on Nepali Buses“
* Bloomberg Businessweek, “Egypt to Fight Sexual Harassment by Broadcasting Attackers“
* Brute Reason, “On Men Who Think Street Harassment Would Be Awesome“
* My Fox DC, “Website helps stop harassment on Metro“
* Gawker, “Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web“
* Alakhbar, “Video Experiment Gauges Public Response to Sexual Harassment“
* Sydney Morning Herald, “‘Shocked’ Sonia’s Tahrir Square ordeal: mob gropes TV reporter after live broadcast“
* Prodigal Magazine, “His Words Burned Into My Skin.”
* The Ferrett, “Can I Buy You a Coffee?“
* Random Musings, “The Argument Over Street Harassment“
* Egypt Independent, “Are you man enough? Men on both sides of fight against harassment“
Announcements:
Reminders:
* Stop Street Harassment welcomes and announces its new board of directors!
* 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.
* There are new anti-street harassment groups in Australia and Nepal
* Read an interview with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh about her beautiful art work against street harassment
* What did street harassment look like in 1945?
* @Shefunionwomcom We are collating stories of women’s experiences of street harassment. If you have a story please email it to womens.committee@shef.ac.uk
* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment
* 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. @LatherRinseRpt Apparently it’s never too early for some street harassment. I’ve had enough of this, I am not an object and I will fight back with a lecture
2. @sallyzohney: Since our dear government &police r watching us suffer #EgWomen r fighting back by spraying harassers w/colored spray #EndSH
3. @gnomesdeplume Street harassment: turning me into a frightened 13 year-old girl since…well, since I was 13. What a shitty way to end the night.
4. @maha_ia Thank God Egyptian women are finally speaking up. #EndSH
5. @DianaShh Street harassment is NOT a compliment. #Jordan
6. @SharkDancing We need to stop making this excuse ” Street Harassment is unfortunate, but completely normal. You just have to deal with it”. #Fem2 #Cdnpoli
7. @Sharon_Haywood Torcuato González Agote breaks Argentine law by taking secret photos of women on #BsAs buses & posts them w/out consent http://bit.ly/QwmNyq
8. @cairowire as much as #egypt needs effective mechanisms to #EndSH, sanctioning CCTV surveillance without proper regulation is a recipe for disaster.
9. @MaiE_89 Ridiculous. 2010 survey in #Egypt: 80% males & 73% females agreed that a woman who dressed provocatively deserved to be harassed #EndSH
10. @ivanvector This. MT @RespectTO: @SharkDancing Street harassment is NOT normal. It already is illegal in several US states. http://bicycling.com/blogs/roadrights/2012/08/08/no-more-bullying/ … #BikeTO
11. @BLifela Today was a rough day!Plus crazy street harassment! Professional attire turned into a site of male pleasure while walking to my research job
12. @Qatato Stand against street harassment in Amman. Share this photo or make it your cover photo and let everybody know… http://fb.me/1WQqifJ0p
13. @CallOutCatCalls @isitis Currently wearing miniskirt; have leggings in bag in case of #streetharassment on my late night train. I feel your pain. 🙁
14. @sw_inku Commute street harassment tali: stranger greeting: 1, politely complimented: 1, yelled at from across the park: 1
15. @mase_430 “@ninasophia81: Big mistake wearing a sweater dress today. Let the street harassment begin. SMH!!! #longleggedgirlstruggles” ~Werk!!
