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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can also 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:
* Najla Alshami Blog, “Street Harassment: An unpleasant obstacle in a Yemeni student’s life“
* GlobalPost, “You see sexual harassment: Do you call the police, or tie up the perpetrator yourself?“
* The Observers, “Egyptian schoolgirls say women encourage sexual harassment“
* Huffington Post, “Fighting Harassment Against Women With Beautiful Street Art“
* Co.Exist, “A Crowdsourcing Project Calls Out Sexual Harassment In India“
* North Wind Online, “Blame society for street harassment“
* New York Times Blog, “Turkish Women Use Twitter to Fight Sexual Harassment“
* AlterNet, “Society Is Starting to Wake Up to Rampant Street Harassment of Women“
* BG News, “Street harassment problem; efforts need to be made to stop catcalls from happening“
* Amanda Jay, “Not Here for your Viewing Pleasure“
* Bougie Black Girl, “My and probably your experience with street harassment“
Announcements:
New:
* Stop Street Harassment is co-sponsoring the Rally Against Rape and Take Back the Night in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, 6:30 p.m. and will have a table with materials and stickers!
Reminders:
* Did you participate in International Anti-Street Harassment Week? Please fill out this 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.
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @raquelitaroman: The irony of writing a paper on street harassment while a man in his fifties has been staring at me for 2hrs is just too real.
* @natmartinezzz: Ah, street harassment. Part of the reason I never go anywhere ever.
* @Tigershah26: Catcalling isn’t a compliment. Its abuse. Street harassment is abuse. Stop. It. #RapeCulture
* @ConsentHousecat: I am tired of these false equivalency derailment comments men make when I air grievances of street harassment.
* @pitytheviolins: Staying with my friend in Washington Heights. Dear lord the street harassment.
* @Jazmyn914: It’s really unbelievable to me that some people truly do not think that street harassment is a real thing
* @RSwirling: Cars slow down. Guys block my path. But having a car guy drive his car onto the sidewalk to block my path, that was new. #streetharassment
* @richhumofair: That type of street harassment where a guy sees you for a half a sec & that’s still enough time for him to honk, wave & smile as he drives by
* @mac_em: Well tonight was a particularly bad night for street harassment…. Thanks for making my walk home super uncomfortable
* @SagieLouWho: Guys who say street harassment isn’t a big deal have probably never had ‘SLUT’ yelled at them from a passing car.
