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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:
* Times of India, “Bazarkhala tense after clash over eve-teasing”
* Jakarta Post, “Sexual harassment victims face hurdles in getting justice”
* RU Daily Targum, “Men’s street harassment makes women feel unsafe”
* India Today, “Bulandshahr class kills 3, injures four”
* Bangalore Mirror, “Malaysian girl accuses co-passenger of sexual harassment aboard flight”
* Indileak, “Three killed over an incident of eve-teasing”
* The Daily Star, “Sexual harassment not abating”
* Indian Express, “S-I refuses to register complaint of eve-teasing victim, shifted”
* Financial Express Bangladesh, “Youths jailed for eve teasing in Habiganj”
* Hollaback, “Week In Our Shoes: Keep Calm and Inspire On Edition”
* Times of India, “Eve-teasing accused yet to be arrested”
* Free Press Journal, “Guard attacked for opposing eve-teasers”
* Times of India, “Beware, eve-teasers, CCTV is guarding Karnatak University hotels“
Announcements:
New:
* If your group, organization, or campus plans to participate in International Anti-Street Harassment Week, please contact Holly (hkearl @ stopstreetharassment.org) and we can add you to the list of participating co-sponsors.
* Do you know your legal rights? If you live in the U.S., check out our Know Your Rights Toolkit with state-by-state information about what forms of street harassment you can report.
Reminders:
* We’re still collecting stories about the street harassment of LGBQTAI people for a new web section — please consider sharing yours, if relevant!
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @LeArtCorner: @raveenasays @StopStHarassmnt In London I always went out in baggy clothes so the harassment would be less (but it still happened).
* LogophilicMind: That unshakeable sense of vertigo when someone manages to ruin your sense of safety. #streetharassment #weneedcommunitycenters #urbanpoverty
* @mujer_cita_MIA: Miami sunshine returns after dismal grey week & so does compulsory #streetharassment
* @reveenasays: You can put a paper bag over your head and still get harassed about 10 times walking down Broadway. #streetharassment #notacompliment
* @SorayaLightyear: I don’t give a damn if your nephew thinks I’m cute I’m just trying to walk to work leave me alone… #streetharassment
* @lizbayer: I think that literally every creep in Baltimore was out roaming the streets during my run this evening #StreetHarassment #whyyyyyyy
* @MandingoRFC: What folks are not gonna do today is act like folks making this shit up. My sis has come home crying from street harassment.
* @halfdadhalfdog: Street harassment is very real. Sick of not being able to walk these streets without hearing “YO!!! CUTE ASS BOY!!!” This is 2014. Grow up.
* @renee_patrice: Nothing like some good ol street harassment to sober me up during my walk home
* @ladyfleur:@michaelcoyote If you’ve never experienced street harassment you have no idea how humiliating it feels, especially when you’re a teen.
