Hello! Thank you so much everyone who has participated so far in International Anti-Street Harassment Week!! This is our biggest week to date with groups in 36 countries confirmed to take action. The end of the day has been very exciting as I just got word that Fiona Patten, a member of Parliament in Victoria, Australia, will be raising the issue of street harassment in Parliament this week!!
So what happened on the first official day of the week of awareness? Here’s a recap of some highlights.
What Happened Today?
* From Colombia to Nepal to the USA (including Baltimore, Des Moines, Miami, New Orleans, and Philadelphia), groups took to the streets today to raise awareness with sidewalk chalk and signs.
* Groups in Pakistan and Cameroon held community discussions.
* Hollaback! Vancouver debuted their interactive campaign and art show “What’s Your Number?”
* Yesterday, a few groups got a jump start to the week, including the #ThisDoesntMeanYes street photo shoot in London, a rally with 200 people in New York City, and a street harassment resource fair at the University of Scranton, in PA, USA.
Two Virtual Events:
* Safe City in India hosted the first tweet chat of the week! Read a recap.
* The NOW Young Feminists & Allies virtual chapter hosted a google hangout about street harassment and multiculturalism. Watch it.
Two Articles:
* An op-ed about street harassment in the Pakistan Today newspaper.
* “This is what street harassment looks like in 16 languages” by Kristin Taylor (“What started out as a small project blossomed, as more and more women began to share their experiences with me. The ink of their markers bled into the fabric, permanently inscribing on my shirt thirty-eight stories of street harassment written in sixteen languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Hindi, Jamaican Patoi, Lebanese, Italian, Moroccan, Nepali, Serbian, Spanish, and Tagalog.”)
