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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:
Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Many of the Hollaback sites
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* All Africa, “Egypt Widens Efforts to Confront Sexual Harassment“
* Huffington Post, “Sexual Violence Prevention: It’s Time to Go Big“
* F to the Third Power, “I Need Feminism Because My Sister Shouldn’t Have To Experience Street Harassment“
* Selfhelp Magazine, “Hey, Baby: The Psychology of Street Harassment“
* Smoke and Stir, “Street Harassment, Empathy, and Fighting Misogyny with Stories“
* Shakesville, “Street Harassment: Same Old Shit, 40 Years Later“
* Zee News, “Govt mulling over law to save street vendors from harassment: Maken“
* Role/Reboot, “A Letter To the Guy Who Harassed Me Outside the Bar“
* The F Word, “‘Hasn’t anybody ever told you a handful is enough?‘”
Announcements:
New:
* Read Jennifer Harrison’s dissertation, “Gender segregation on public transport in South Asia: A critical evaluation of approaches for addressing harassment against women.”
* Check out the Tumblr “Ish people say to me on my way to the train“
Reminders:
*Follow Stop Street Harassment on Tumblr
* If you’re a woman ages 18-26, take a survey for a student’s thesis on street harassment
* HoodRules thebook is now available!
* Check out the project CATCALLED: the stories of 11 women in New York City from two weeks in August 2012, now online.
* Baltimore, MD, folks — take a survey about street harassment for Hollaback! Bmore
* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. @Morgane_R I’m so tired of the way we raise our young men to think its okay to verbally violate a womans body on the street. #streetharassment
2. @nualacabral Addressing personal experiences w/ #streetharassment is an effective entry point for broader convo about sexism, racism & sexuality. #fem2
3. @kadyrabbit #bitchesbe tired of street harassment
4. @skelleee Today in street harassment, I was on the phone crossing a highway when dude from other side walked right up to me to say some shit.
5. @ItsRyanTime Ahh nothing like sexual harassment on the street to kick start your Sunday
6. @lauratownshend So after 25 mins of constantly, directly rebuffed street harassment, the ONLY thing that works is saying I have a boyfriend #everydaysexism
7. @KimberlyNFoster Same-race street harassment is a behavioral pattern, and thus a cultural phenomenon—one that is rooted in black patriarchy (Fogg-Davis 2006)
8. @Imaninople Wow… more street harassment just for me? Must be my lucky day.
9. @phasmune Yeah totally, street harassment is totally flattering. I was blushing and giggling before from that fugly bald man’s lovely compliments.
10. @scarlettnarwhal More shoreditch street harassment, ‘pissing bitch’, then ‘Norway ho,go back to Norway’. Lovely.
