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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:
* Guardian, “Shouting back: how women are fighting street harassment“
* Washington Post, “In Istanbul, street harassment is a constant“
* Feministing, “It takes a village to silence street harassment“
* Rosie Says, “Two Letters“
* PolicyMic, “Daily Mail Claims Women Secretly Love Street Harassment, to Surprise Of Women Everywhere“
* Ms. Marmite, “No, I will not give you a fucking smile“
* Confessions of a Curvy Girl, “Street Harassment“
* The New York Times, “An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, and Women Are Hounded“
* Fem2.0, “40 (Un)Justifiable Reasons To Sexually Harass Me On the Street“
* Deccan Herald, “You are here: Home » National » Bengal schools may have self-defence classes for girls
Bengal schools may have self-defence classes for girls“
* Global Post, “She Never Asks For It“
* Jezebel, “Awesome Indian Men Don Skirts to Protest Rape Culture“
Announcements:
New:
* On Jan. 19, Blank Noise led a 24-hour tweetathon about #safecitypledges. Make yours.
* @TahrirBodyguard We are coordinating efforts with @harassmap for #25Jan .Help us!volunteer against sexual harassment! #endSh
* Read Joel Anderson’s article, “T.I., ‘Gender Night,’ and Misogyny“
* Read Cris Izaguirre’s poem “We Leave the World Outside“
Reminders:
*Follow Stop Street Harassment on Tumblr
* 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“
* 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
15Tweets from the Week:
1. @FabulousMissEm “Yeah, TITS!!” – #ucsbstudent hollered at me today from his car as I walked home. #streetharassment
2. @TowardsHarmony I pledge to not censor my clothes if I am going out alone! #safecitypledge to talk freely about #streetharassment I experience
3. @Bristol_Jane Jo Brand on Jonathan Ross saying she once responded to #streetharassment by ripping the windscreen wipers off their van! #shoutingback
4. @thetrudz #DontBotherMeWhen I am reading, listening to music, enjoying silence in public or doing anything else at all. #streetharassment
5. @nidsitis I will stop calling #streetharassment ‘eve-teasing’. #safecities #SafeCityPledge @BLANK_NOISE
6. @carolynlb Kinda gross seeing dudes craning their necks 2 look @ a woman’s butt. #streetharassment #endsh
7. @alison_moulds @EverydaySexism a guy just shouted ‘take off your ear muffs bitch’ at me. #Streetharassment gets bizarrer by the day.
8. @EgyptWomen2011 @WSGTJM No, definitely not, women buses are in no way #emancipaton but may be temporary safety for some, until solutions to #EndSH kick in
9. @NikiRooney I experienced #streetharassment on Friday walking round the corner from pub to my flat. Guy asked for my number… #ShoutingBack
10. @LouiseR_TT The #shoutingback hashtag is a chance for everyone to join together and stand up to street/sexual harassment. I submitted my story.
11. @he4ther_hurst also why do boys think its okay to catcall and comment about how a girl dresses? me leaving the house is not asking for your opinion
12. @locomotortardis Remember, if you know someone who thinks it’s okay to catcall or harass someone on the street, it’s important to call them a douchebag.
13. @SaraAlcid After two days sick in bed, I’d almost forgotten how #StreetHarassment feels. Happy to have used what I learned in @EvrydayFeminism webinar!
14. @Mehar_robert What can we change on our streets? Attitudes? Policing? We can start with our responses to street harassment. #SafeCityPledge
15. @xicacha Do people really think that street harassment is about attractiveness? Cause usually after I ignore harassers I get called a ugly fat bitch.
