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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:
* Hollaback, “Week In Our Shores: Getting the Word Out Edition!”
* Hindustan Times, “Street art takes on sexual harassment”
* Al-Monitor, “Sexual harassment in Egypt still widespread”
* Authint Mail, “In Kasmir, parents of victim girls seek punishment for “drunk” eve-teasers”
* The New Indian Express, “Were You Asking to be Eve-teased in That Dress?”
* EurasiaNet, “More Reflections on Azerbaijan: When Will the Catcalls Stop?”
* RH Reality Check, “PSA Raises Awareness of Street Harassment in Egypt”
* CBC News, “Sexual harassment on the rise on transit, say police”
* Greater Greater Washington, “Raising awareness can curb street harassment”
* Jezebel, “Philly Has a Street Harasser Who Drapes His Dick in Swiss Cheese”
* Huffington Post, “Here’s The Best Way To Holler At A Woman On The Street”
* Hollaback, “Street Harassment and Internet Harassment: One and the Same?“
Announcements:
* 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.
* Welcome SSH’s spring intern Kendra Corbin!
* SSH’s first Blog Correspondents cohort of 2014 launched this month. They will write monthly articles through April.
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @Dontharassmebro “Hey mama, why are you angry? You’re beautiful. How about a smile?” 1. Not your mom. 2. No one asked your opinion. 3. No. #streetharassment
* @itnlpolitical “Ohh, I really want to marry that guy that whistled to me from his car!” .. said no girl ever. #streetharassment
* @sadiasmusings #lifeofamuslimfeminist #streetharassment listening to drunk white men catcall me as Muslim men on the side do nothing
* @rrachaelrae @EverydaySexism walking with boyfriend wearing shorts and a t-shirt, guy driving past yells at me “SLUT!” #everydaysexism #streetharassment
* @Sharon_Haywood when I askd my harasser if he was talking to me he said no-after getting over the shock that I actually have a voice
* @hollabackmumbai I was walking with my dad & a guy casually walks past us & knocks his elbows on my breasts #stories #harassment #endSH
* @msbrandiebrown Wish I was paying attention and said/did something 🙁 #EndSH #MBTAcreeps
* @maria_delrio I’ve just been catcalled in Catalan. It is still not ok. No matter the language you use, its discomforting and intrusive #EndSH
* @RSwirling Obviously we’re all obliged to listen to #streetharassment too – it’s their free speech rights to call me a whore all day
* @manda4444 Catcalling and street harassment is just that–harassment. Telling someone to take it as a compliment is ignorant and degrading.
