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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:
* Urban Times, “Street Harassment In Public Places: A Global Issue“
* Truth-Out, “Combating Sexual Harassment in Egypt“
* The Raw Story, “Sexual Harassment Is A Grassroots Political Movement“
* Thought Catalog, “Changing The Politics Of Street Harassment Means Men Must Step Up“
* PolicyMic, “It’s 2013, Guys — Stop Catcalling Women Like Animals“
* City Paper, “Hollaback Philly fights street harassment with pocket-sized cards“
* City Beat, “Let’s Talk About Street Harassment“
* International Business Times, “Sexual Assaults on Women Rise at Spain’s Pamplona Bull Run“
* The Feminist Wire, “My Tattoos are Not an Invitation“
* Huffington Post, “What We Wish People Would Say To Us On The Street“
* SLOG, “Street Harassment with a Happy Ending“
* Bust, “Guess How Many Women Find Street Harassment Flattering? This Tumblr is Great“
* Nursing Clio, “Who has your Back? Harassment on our Streets“
Announcements:
* SSH just launched a brand new Safe Public Spaces Mentoring Program to advice/guide and provide a small amount of money to groups or individuals who want help with an anti-street harassment initiative in their community.
* Watch Kara Lieff’s video “Meet Us on the Subway“
* Do-it-yourself anti-street harassment art!
* New studies about harassment of transgender people in Washington, DC and people in Ottawa, Canada
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. @brassiest It’s 2013 and men still think street harassment is a “compliment” and not terrifyingly creepy and dangerous behavior
2. @LadyT523 Men who act like caveman street harrass women. #T2Q #streetharassment
3. @BertLoch One stranger can take #StreetHarassment as a compliment. Another a threat that creates great unease. Point is YOU DON’T KNOW WHICH IS WHICH.
4. @empascall Since when is it okay for an old creepy ass man three times my age to blow kisses at me while I walk down the street? Fuck you!!!!
5. @lilly_GG Street harassment happens everywhere not just big cities, it happens in the mountains, the country and the suburbs as well…
6. @lov3yourself Thanks for letting me know I look nice but I don’t walk around for your visual pleasure #ShoutingBack #streetharassment
7. @mcbyrne Women should be able to bill @wmata for cab costs when they make mistakes and our safety isn’t secure
8. @mykasobering “Hey sexy, nice tits. Whoa, why are you so upset? It’s a compliment. I’m only being nice to you, you stupid bitch.” – Male proverb.
9. @Renegade_Blog Sooo, when is the last time you got street harassed? Where? Today? Yesterday? #stopstreetharassment #streetharassment
10. @sistrenista Can Black men in #CrownHeights just give me a few days without #streetharassment ?? I’m still seriously grieving one of your own #ugh
