Hello Day 4!
Here are photos from the week
Here’s the Storify from the tweetathon yesterday.
Here is the Storify from our Tweet Chat Today!
Here’s a sampling of the events and actions today:
- Australia: Member of Parliament Fiona Patten MLC gave a statement in Victoria, focused on LGBTI street harassment.
“Ongoing and systemic harassment and discrimination led to higher rates of psychological distress amongst LGBTI Australians compared with the population at large. I do not think anyone should be harassed on the street — whether they are male, female, trans or whatever sexuality they identify as having. I call on the minister to help reduce gender and sexuality-based street harassment by working collaboratively with the LGBTI community to develop public campaigns that recognise the value of LGBTI people in our community.”
- Egypt: HarassMap held a day of activities (awareness sessions, stand up comedy etc.) at Menofeya University in Menofeya governorate
- India: Safecity organized a Safety Sprawl in two communities in Mumbai
- Nepal: Activista Nepal held a street drama
- UK: UNmuted Productions released the film “I Smile Politely, film about street harassment (spoken word poetry),” starring April Hughes and written & directed by Ness Lyons. The Director of Photography & Editor is Luke Bartlett. “This a specially edited version of the original 12-minute ‘I Smile Politely’, which was performed at Women of the World Festival 2016, Southbank Centre. A lot of people asked if the piece was on YouTube… so we made this :)”
- Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University’s Women’s Studies department is hosting their annual chalking on campus.
- Pennsylvania: Explorers Against Sexual Violence at La Salle University in Philadelphia also held a sidewalk chalking
- Washington, D.C.: End Rape on Campus co-founders Annie Clark and Andrea Pino have edited a volume of stories by rape survivors — We Believe You — and will host an event for its release. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) will join them. [Politics & Prose, 6th & I Street, NW, 7 p.m.]
A new film was released in India:
