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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
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
* New Age Online, “Metro cop accused of harassment“
* New York Times Blog, “Share Your Stories of Street Harassment in New York City“
* Telegraph, “Stop telling women to ‘smile’: New York street art says it how it is“
* Frontier Post, “India’s incessant Pak bashing“
* AsiaOne, “HK survey: 1 in 3 air stewardesses sexually harassed last year“
* Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services, “Ignoring the reality of street harassment“
* Business Standard, “Women eve-teased, three family members injured“
* Emirates 24/7, “Kangana on a mission: Talks rape, eve teasing and gender bias“
* New Indian Express, “Mint Area Tense After Eve Teasing Row“
* Philadelphia Magazine, “In Philly, in the Dead of Winter, Men Will Still Catcall You“
* Daily Nexus, “Take Back the Night Begins Week-Long Campaign“
* Philly.com, “Those catcalls aren’t cute. They’re harassment“
* The Guardian, “Women should not accept street harassment as ‘just a compliment’“
* Fusion, “Fighting Street-Harassment with Art“
Announcements:
Reminders:
* Stop Street Harassment is moving forward with the national street harassment study but we still need to raise a bit more money to cover the costs of producing the report. Please consider donating $10 or more to make this happen.
* 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.
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @vampishly: street harassment is my number one reason for not wanting to go outside :/
* @reemelhussainy: Street harassment is no more about compliments than rape is about sex.
* @bikemamadelphia:@katebikemom @StopStHarassmnt my friend was recounting why she stopped riding so much. Guy slapped her ass from car in center city
* @bonesauce94: Day 7254 of being a girl: I discover that applying even the dullest of Chapstick is somehow erotic, and a warrant for catcalls. Fascinating
* @MonaBassel: 15 year old boy verbally harassed so I shouted and told him to come so he ran, slipped, and fell. Goes to show how harassers are cowards! #EndSH
* @anniebiggins: It must be spring. Outside for 4 minutes and already enjoying some fantastic street harassment!!!
* @Vidyut: Speak with 1o maids in your area. Ask them what is the most difficult about being a woman in India. Count how many say street harassment.
* @scarriewhite: nothing like starting by day by getting disgusting catcalls yelled at me in my walk to the subway
* @tangomangooo: someone pls explain to me why I can’t go anywhere without hearing catcalls or being whistled at
* @KHolmMN: Yo dudebros. You do realize that catcalling (esp. during the middle of the night on city streets) is generally terrifying and won’t work?
