Dear Friends,
This week, “The Good Place” actress Jameela Jamil and Canadian journalist Joanna Chiu both raised important conversations in the news and on social media about street harassment by sharing their stories of experiencing and witnessing it, respectively.
Sharing our stories is an important way to not only raise awareness about the issue and show its seriousness, but research shows it can also help us feel better and recover more quickly from upsetting experiences.
April 7 (within Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the USA) marks the start of International Anti-Street Harassment Week — please join us and share your stories that week!
April 9 is an especially a good day to do so online, as we’ll host a global social media blitz and invite people all over the world to share stories and message about street harassment across the day, on all social media platforms, using #StopStreetHarassment. If you need shareable images – here are ones you can use!
If you need quick ideas for how to be involved offline too, here are four!
REMINDERS:
One week from today is the start of our 9th annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week, April 7-13! www.meetusonthestreet.org
- The Global Social Media Blitz will be on April 9, all day, all time zones. Use #StopStreetHarassment on any social media platform to join! Here are shareable images!
- Our partner Stop Telling Women to Smile will be leading an International Night of Wheat pasting on April 12. Sign up here.
- If you want other ideas, here’s information on how to participate!
- Here is the preliminary list of events!
If you will be leading or joining action, please complete this form to let us know about it. We’ll add it to the website!
If you’d like to be listed as a participating co-sponsor (we have participants in 15 countries so far!) and/or if you’d like to do a guest blog post, please let me know! Contact StopStreetHarassment@Gmail.com.
-Holly
Stop Street Harassment Founder & CEO
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