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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
The Hollaback Sites
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
* Firstpost, “Eve-teasing, molestation of NE women common in metros: Survey”
* Daily Illini, “Catcalling not synonymous with flattery”
* Pakistan Daily Times, “Man killed for stopping youth from eve-teasing”
* SBM, “The Introvert Struggle, Street Harassment, and Where the Good Guys Are”
* The Concordian, “Cat got your tongue: Responding to street harassment”
* Collective Action for Safe Spaces, “5,000: The Number of Dollars We Need to Raise to Paint An Anti-Street Harassment Mural in DC”
* HollabackMUMBAI, “Reclaim The Streets, Reclaim Your Right, Demand The #RightRepublic”
* The McGill Daily, “Catcalls and the violence behind them”
* Creative Boom, “City of Brotherly Loves takes a stand against men who catcall”
* BuzzFeed, “8 Reasons A Catcall is Not A Compliment”
* XO Jane, “Street Harassment“
Announcements:
Reminders:
* We’re collecting stories about the street harassment of LGBQTAI people for a new web section — please consider sharing yours, if relevant!
* Meet SSH’s newest board member, Patrick Ryne McNeil, who specializes in the street harassment of gay and bisexual men.
* SSH’s first Blog Correspondents cohort of 2014 launched this month. They will write monthly articles through April.
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @juliemastrine Getting followed on my walk home. Told him “I don’t want to talk” & “Stop harassing me.” Seems to be gone but now I’m spooked 🙁 #endSH
* @msbrandiebrown: @britnidlc Today a man described my pregnant appearance as “juicy and fresh.” *gags* #endSH
* @Libitina2 People talking about street harassment and how it’s the worst in the summer. Yet I’ve gotten harassed every day this week. (1/?)
* @JAMyerson: @CapobiaNB Good rule: if you are worried your flirtation might be harassment, don’t do it.
* @kay_fil “No Scrubs” is the best anti –#streetharassment anthem of all time – only scrubs think it’s fly to holla at girls from cars so stop doing it
* @citygirldc Please explain 2 me why a dude would roll down his car window in the cold just 2 demand I change my facial expression. #streetharassment
* @Dontharassmebro Dude grabs my arm when I walk by and hisses “hey baby. that dressss…” In what universe is that okay? #streetharassment #dontharassmebro
* @kerrydiekmann I need #feminism bc when someone warned me about the sidewalks being icy on my walk home, I 1st assumed SH @StopSTHarassmnt @SafeSpacesDC
* @aslibharat Raise your voice against eve teasing. Be a man not evil. #eveteasing
*@juliemastrine: @dana_hoyes Not getting harassed/groped/sexualized etc on the street *is* a basic human right. #streetharassment
