I’m trying to get back in the habit of the weekly digest! This will be a round-up of key articles/news over the past few weeks.
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Street Harassment Stories:
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Collective Action for Safe Spaces
The Hollaback sites
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* Voice of America, “Libya Women Report Increased Harassment“
* Ms. Magazine blog, “When Street Harassment is More Deadly than Catcalls”
* National Yemen, “Safe Street Campaign: The First Step to Breaking Sexual harassment“
* The Guardian, “Everyday Sexism: five reasons why men shouldn’t shout at women in the street“
* Fem2Pt0, 1900s Street Harassment and Lessons for Today”
* The Root, “Street Harassment: What Men Can Learn“
* Vitamin W, “”Bro” Wants Others to Stop Harassing the Ladies“
* Day of the Girl, “I’m not Interested“
* The Telegraph, “How Female Joggers are Dealing with Sexist Hecklers“
* Huffington Post, “Street Harassment: Is a Man Running Over a 14-Year Old Girl for Refusing Sex Serious Enough?”
* The Ontarion, “Street Harassment and Privilege“
* WBEZ91.5, “Standing up to street harassment“
* WickedLocal.com, “‘Safe Sites’ businesses offer refuge to avoid harassment, assault“
* Al-Monitor, “Sexual Harassment Incident Sparks Hot Debate in Gaza“
* WeWomen.com, “Stop street harassers by joining the 50 Stories movement“
* The Times of India, “More skirts in the saddle“
* The Magpie Librarian, “Cats (and Librarians) Against Cat Calls: A display about street harassment“
* Daily Wildcat, “Street harassment creates unwelcoming environment“
* Arab News, “Delhi increases attempts to tackle sexual harassment“
* International Business Times, “Science Of Sexual Harassment: Consequences Known, But Effective Solutions Lacking“
* Morocco World News, “Street harassment in Morocco: a foreigner’s perspective“
* The Crimson White, “An open letter to the boys of the street“
* PolicyMic, “Would You Confront Your Street Harasser?”
* Daily News Egypt, “65 women were saved from sexual violation during Eid: pressure group“
* Newsworks, “Group targeting street harassment calls for Philly audit of safety concerns“
* The Daily Star, “Taking a stand over sexual harassment“
* Clutch, “UPDATED: Tariq Nasheed’s Silencing Tactics Won’t Make Street Harassment Disappear“
* Straight.com, “Harassment on TransLink project seeks safer transit for women“
* Ahram Online, “Egyptian sexual harasser’s sentence reduced from 45 to 5 years“
* AlArabiya, “Saudi Arabia sexual harassment video sparks social media outrage“
* The Express Tribune, “A Pakistani in Amsterdam: Sexual harassment has no geographical location“
* The Grio, “Traveling while black: I was constantly mistaken for a prostitute in Buenos Aires“
* Slate, “What Are These Photos of Street Harassers Trying to Say?”
* NDTV, “CCTV suggests sexual harassment of girl on Bangalore metro“
* CNN iReport, “Street Harassment: Part of the United States Culture Since our Early, Formative Years“
* The Guardian, “Sexual harassment is constant in clubs and it must stop, students say“
* Art Discover, “Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s street art tackles sexual harassment“
* The Times of India, “Celebrities get harassed in public“
* PolicyMic, “When It Comes to Street Harassment, One Group May Have It Worse Than Women“
* The Root, “Survival First When Facing Street Harasser“
* New Black Man (In Exile), “Stuff People Say to Teen Girls (Street Harassment“
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New:
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* Buy a copy of the new book 50 Stories about Stopping Street Harassers! Here’s how to hold a book club fundraiser for SSH.
* If you’re in Philadelphia, attend our book event/community event with Hollaback! Philly and FAAN Mail on Wednesday, 7 p.m. a the Wooden Shoe Bookstore (Info) and you can join us on Thursday morning 10 a.m. for the Philadelphia City Council Hearing on street harassment, organized by Hollaback! Philly.
* Check out Hollaback!’s newest publication: “#HarassmentIs: An exploration of identity and street harassment”
