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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:
* ThinkProgress, “Hundreds Of New Yorkers Rally Against Street Harassment: ‘I’m Not A Dog, Don’t Whistle At Me’“
* Flavorwire, “Self-Portraits Offer Creative Response to Street Harassment“
* Hollaback Boston, “International Anti-Street Harassment Week Chalk Walk Recap“
* New York Times, “An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste“
* CNN, “Is Egypt in the midst of a sexual harassment epidemic?“
* Ahram Online, “Egypt’s new anti-sexual harassment law submitted to cabinet“
* The Guardian, “Flirtation or sexual harassment? Here’s how to tell the difference“
* AllAfrica.com, “Leering Glances – the Silence on Sexual Harassment Is Untenable“
* MiamiHerald.com, “Movement enlists bartenders to protect women from sexual harassment“
* Away She Goes, “Street Harassment and Traveling Advice for Women“
* The Astute Bloggers, “How Effectively Will Egypt’s New Government Combat Sexual Harassment?“
* NY Mag, “Ending Sexual Harassment Will Not Make It Harder to Get Laid, Promise“
Announcements:
New:
* 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.
* SSH Founder Holly Kearl and board member Patrick Ryan McNeil will join Collective Action for Safe Spaces on a panel about street harassment at the George Washington University on Wednesday, 7 p.m.
10 Tweets from the Week:
* @awlzr: Had the worst street harassment experience of my life. What gives people the right to f*cking shout slurs a person bc she wont turn around
* @kirstyboo79: If you hear a girl had her arse grabbed in Cambridge & yelled at the perv, that’s me. My body, my rules. F*cking prick. #streetharassment
* @teacup: The amount of street harassment I got last night was f*cking insane.
* @tala_roo: I somehow missed the memo that spring was also street harassment season -_-
* @_arnesa_: In what world do men think it’s okay to “holler” at a girl as she is coming out of a doctors office #EndSH
* @fyeahmfabello: These men actually just bowed down to a woman’s ass on the street while hooting and hollering. What the actual f*ck. #EndSH @HollabackPhilly
* @britt_turtle: Just got followed by an obvi mentally ill dude jerking off while saying nasty things to me… #ThisIsMyLA #streetharassment
* @RSwirling: Sometimes I say hi to men who say hello in hopes that it’s friendliness, not #streetharassment. Every time I end up wrong & objectified.
* @laurennn: This guy just hollered at me from his stoop. His toddler DAUGHTER was right next to him #wtf #streetharassment
* @peacockprince: it is so hot it’d be nice to go walking outside today too bad about that street harassment thing tho huh
