Day 6 & 7 of International Anti-Street Harassment Week — the Week is over!
Here’s the updated photo album.
Hollaback! hosted a tweet chat.
Here are some of the actions that took place –>
Afghanistan:
Free Women Writers’ Balkh team took their art exhibition to a high school. They talked about each painting with the students and let them ask questions.
Chile:
OCAC Chile held an awareness event in a park, including coordinating a creative “Scrabble” board.
Croatia:
Hollaback! Croatia hosted a fashion show that shows what victims were wearing when they were harassed.
Guatemala:
OCAC Guatemala held an event to “take back the streets” by bicycle.
India:
Safecity held a sessions of Politalks to discuss street harassment and the role of urban planning in making public spaces more inclusive. They touched upon numerous topics, from the basics of harassment to power dynamics between genders. They “were extremely delighted to have Jeenal Sawla, an expert and seasoned urban planner, who gave amazing insight into the foundations of urban planning and gender inclusive public spaces.”
Indonesia:
Hollaback! Jakarta held a chalking event.
Italy:
Catcalls of Turin did chalking.
Netherlands:
Stop Straat Intimidatie participated in Stop Telling Women to Smile wheat pasting.
Papua New Guinea:
Across the week, UN Women’s Sanap Wantaim Campaign posted testimonials from people about street harassment. Here is one example.
Peru:
On April 13, Paremos el acoso callejero held a roundtable discussion about sexual harassment in public transit and the government’s obligations according to Perú anti-street harassment law.
On April 14, Paremos el acoso callejero held an awareness raising fair organized by “Línea 1 Metro de Lima” in collaboration with PLAN International Peru. They also held a healing circle for victims of sexual harassment in public transit.
UK:
Bristol: Catcalls of Bristol did chalking.
London: Catcalls of London held a chalking event.
USA:
Various groups/people did the Stop Telling Women to Smile wheat pasting, from CA to ME, from IL to GA.
California: SSH volunteer Meghna led a chalking outside the Yoga Seed Collective in Sacramento with CALCASA staff and Yoga students.
New York City: Catcalls of NYC did a chalking event.
Washington, DC: Collective Action for Safe Spaces did a wheat pasting event.
