International Anti-Street Harassment Week starts in just 5 days!!
While women are the main targets of street harassment, entire families and communities are impacted by it — when women aren’t as safe in public spaces, everyone suffers. And so it’s in men’s best interest to get involved in challenging street harassment, and, as the main perpetrators of street harassment, they are in the best position to stop it.
Many men get this and will be involved in International Anti-Street Harassment Week this year, including male-led initiatives like:
* Hey Baby Art Against Sexual Violence (they’re hosting an event/rally at a high school in Tucson, AZ)
* London Tae Kwon Do School (they’re talking about street harassment during all of their classes that week)
* Masculinity U (they’ll be posting information on social media about street harassment)
* Men Stopping Violence (they’re hosting the April 4 Tweet Chat at 2 p.m. EDT, #EndSH).
Individual men will be involved too, like Mark Webster in Virginia who will donate his photography skills to photograph a sidewalk chalking event in Washington, D.C. on Sunday; Joe Samalin, a SSH blog correspondent who will speak at the NYC rally against street harassment on April 5; and Alan Kearl, my dad and HUGE SSH supporter who will join my mom in putting up flyers in South Beach, FL, this weekend.
Men: the best way you can get involved is to talk to other men about this issue. Tell them why it’s not cool to harass. Speak up when you see harassment happening. Join us in any way you can. We need you!
