Here’s the Day 2 report with highlights of the actions from Anti-Street Harassment Week! Don’t forget you can report back on your actions here. You can also tag SSH on social media or email me at StopStreetHarassment@Gmail.com.
I’m updating the 2018 Photo Album a few times a day.
Here is a sampling of the social media postings from today, including ones from India, Japan, Kenya, Spain and Yemen.
Afghanistan: Each day of the week, Free Women Writers will share a piece of art about how women and girls in Afghanistan and around the world are harassed regardless of what they wear. Today’s art work is also by @Royasaberzada.
USA: With art from PSA Art Awakenings in Tucson and the leadership of Hey Baby | Art Against Sexual Violence, each day of Anti Street Harassment Week, the Joel Valdez Main Library in Tucson, AZ, will display different pieces of artwork that advocate for everyone’s right to be in public space and explores gender-based harassment and or ending street harassment.
Today, the two pieces are the following, with “Blood on the Pavement” by David Van Sice and “i Candy” by Amy Woods.
Chile: Observatorio Contra el Acoso Callejero held a fanzine workshop and talk about street harassment for high school students.
Colombia: Secretaría de la MUJER – Gobernación del Cauca held a “streets without harassment” demonstration.
Guatemala: OCAC Guatemala shared images and videos on social media.
#HablemosdeAcoso:
No es difìcil entender que los espacios públicos son de todas y todas, y qe podemos transitaros con respeto.
¿#TeHaPasado?#EndSH #EnUnMundoSinAcoso #TeHaPasado pic.twitter.com/KuZlmYQOe4— Ocac Guatemala (@ocacgt) April 9, 2018
Maldives: Nufoshey partnered with Hope For Women to hold a talk about how to be better allies, advocates and bystanders on the issue of street harassment. It was hosted at American Center Maldives.
Netherlands: Stichting Stop Straatintimidatie is producing online videos of politicians and other Dutch celebrities speaking out against street harassment. Here’s one video from today:
Nicaragua: Mar Pilz, who does communications work for OCAC Nicaragua, wrote a blog post about her experiences of street harassment as a woman in Nicaragua, as well as her dream for the future:
“I dream that one day our society will make progress and accept that street harassment is not a compliment, but a threat to our security and health in general. I wish that maybe one day, our
daughters would walk on the street without any fear or paranoia and that their fight would not be the same that this generation is fighting. That war should have been over and won years ago.”
USA:
CA: My parents Alan Kearl and Beckie Weinheimer shared signs against street harassment in Venice Beach, California, during their vacation!
CT: The Women’s Center’s VAWPP hosted Catcalls of UConn, a social media and chalking project to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of catcalling.
DC: Collective Action for Safe Spaces hosted Me Too: Anti-Street Harassment Week Speakout and called on the DC Council to pass the Street Harassment Prevention Act (or SHPA), which would activate community-based solutions to public harassment and assault. They’re working to #PassSHPA to build a city that invests in community, not criminalization to end violence.
Ren & Ruth from BYP100 DC said, “We need to make sure black trans voices are centered in this fight – we aren’t safe in our homes we aren’t safe in the streets. We support this bill because it supports community led efforts to end street harassment.”
Love @SongRiseDC sing about why we need to street harassment and pass Street Harassment Prevention Act #EndSH pic.twitter.com/hVOdaoRr9L
— Michelle Loggins (@MRLoggins1) April 9, 2018
NH: The SHARPP office at the University of New Hampshire released a special exhibit at their campus library for the Week.
MA: UMass Amherst Intergroup Dialogue (Gender) Students spoke to fellow students of UMass Amherst about sexual and street harassment in order to raise awarenes.
NY: The Schomburg Center, in partnership with The Laundromat Project, hosted Reimagining Community: Finding Sanctuary in Public Spaces. Panelists discussed the impact of public and public-facing spaces and their role in the development of community, commerce, and the fight for the soul of a neighborhood. Panelists included: Justin Garrett Moore, Sydnie Mosley, Robin Bell-Stevens, Tomie Arai, Moikgantsi Kgama.
VA: George Mason University’s Women and Gender Studies department held a chalking on campus to raise awareness of street harassment and they will pass out info and resources.
