Today was the fourth day of International Anti-Street Harassment Week!
Here are a few highlights:
More media coverage, including:
Daily Beast | BuzzFeed | Autostraddle | Liberation (France)
There were THREE tweet chats today:
1) Everyday Feminism and Fem2Pt0 hosted a conversation about street harassment, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.
2) Everyday Health hosted a chat about street harassment and health with several anti-street harassment groups and health leaders.
3) Secular Woman hosted a chat about harassment women face at conferences.
Notable Achievements:
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Some of the events that took place:
Safe City Nepal held dance performances and handed out flyers at a new location in Kathmandu again.
Hollaback! Dublin organized an event called “Exploring Street Harassment through Film” where the showed a variety of street harassment documentaries.
Hollaback! Bangalore led a workshop at a university in India.
Hollaback! Tucson and OASIS held a “Street Harassment 101: An Introduction” workshop at the University of Arizona’s Campus Health building.
A University of Illinois student group painted anti-street harassment messages on the windows of local businesses along Green Street, a campus town street rife with street harassment.
Hollaback! Twin Cities hosted an Open Mic Night at the Minnehaha Free Space in Minneapolis.
The Brooklyn Movement Center and the Brecht Forum held the event “PLANET BROOKLYN: Beyond Catcalls,” which explored street harassment incidents and organizing in the borough over the past 40 years. The intergenerational panel featured four Brooklynites contextualizing unhealthy masculinity, criminalization and gentrification within the broader anti-street harassment movement.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture and Collective Action for Safe Spaces co-hosted a workshop at MLK Library
There was a Human Trafficking Awareness Month event at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
BraveHeart Hawaii did sidewalk chalking yesterday (we missed the pics until today!)
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See the photo album of events.
Remember — here’s the report form where you can say how your action went (no matter how big or small). This information will be used for the annual wrap-up report and potentially for articles about the week.
