THANK YOU to everyone who made our work possible this year! Here are 10 highlights from this year.
** You can read more and see photos in our 2017 Annual Report. **
1. Oversaw the 7th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week. Groups in 40 countries and 20 U.S. states and D.C. participated through organizing street demonstrations, flyering, wheatpasting, sidewalk chalking, tweet chats, and workshops.
2. Surpassed year one and began year two of the first-ever national street harassment hotline, run in partnership with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
3. Recruited and worked with two cohorts of nine blog correspondents from eight countries. They each wrote monthly articles about street harassment and/or activism in their communities across their four month term
4. Received around 200 street harassment story submissions to the SSH blog.
5. Nearly a quarter-million people visited the website and there were more than 417,000 page views.
6. Worked for a fifth year on an anti-harassment transit campaign with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and Collective Action for Safe Spaces.
7. Began efforts to spearhead a national survey on sexual abuse, to be conducted in January 2018 in partnership with Raliance and GfK. Thank you to all of our donors who are making this possible!
8. Took part in many marches and protests, from the Women’s March in January to other rallies/marches held in support of issues like immigrants’ rights, transgender folks’ rights and Title IX protections and against white supremacy.
9. Spoke at 12 events in CA, DC, MD NH, NY, VA and Mexico City. These events included talks to high school students, college students, community members and global safe cities leaders. Also offered support to several groups for their events.
10. Received $1,500 in funding from the PinPoint Foundation and around $9,000 in donations from individuals.
I was on the R train in NYC last night. It was just me and this old guy in a suit and when the doors closed he sat right across from me. He was looking at his phone but I could tell he was taking a video of me. So he starts flicking his tongue at me and rubbing his groin. I instantly moved to the other side of the train and this asshole gets up and sits across from me again. I said, “This not ok. Stop it or I’m calling the cops.”