Here’s the Day 6/7 report with highlights of the actions from International 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 Egypt, Guatemala, Kenya, Philippines, UK and the USA.
Art:
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 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. Here are some of the recent pieces.
Meisha Burrows ‘One’
Frances Hudon-Green ‘ What If Everything Said by People on the Street was Positive’
Carlene Say ‘School Harassment’
Scott Osburn ‘Ice Cream Cone’
Actions:
Argentina: Accion Respeto will be holding a rally on the night of the 14th.
France: Stop Harcèlement de rue held a Krav Maga lesson.
France: Stop harcèlement de rue Monptellier held a march against street harassment and they collected testimonies of street harassment.
Guatemala: Observatorio Contra el Acoso Callejero Guatemala held a demonstration against street harassment at the central park.
India: Students at Ranchi Women’s College wrote messages and art about street harassment.
Indonesia: Hollaback! Jakarta held a bystander intervention workshop and event at the U.S. Embassy’s American cultural center.
Mexico: Biblioteca Vasconcelos held a conversation about women walking at night.
Netherlands: Stop Straatintimidatie released a video with feminist journalist Milou Deelen.
Peru: Paremos el Acoso Callejero organized a street harassment support group discussion in Lima.
Spain: Levantalavoz Madrid did sidewalk chalking!
Trinidad and Tobago: Ms. Brafit / Safecity collaborated with students at UWI St. Augustine’s Geography Department to spread messages about safety in public spaces.
USA:
Michigan: Hollaback! Detroit made their second edition zine and held an Open Mic with an anti-harassment theme.
Washington, D.C.: Batala, Free Women Writer’s DC group, SSH and Collective Action for Safe Spaces did street action, including drumming, chalking and flyering.
