Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week and find relevant announcements and upcoming street harassment events.
Street Harassment Stories:
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You can read new street harassment stories from the past week on:
- Stop Street Harassment Blog
- HollaBack Atlanta
- HollaBack Baltimore
- HollaBack Buenos Aires
- HollaBack Como
- HollaBack DC!
- HollaBack France
- HollaBack Houston
- HollaBack Israel
- HollaBack London
- HollaBack Mumbai
- HollaBack NYC
- HollaBack Ottawa
- HollaBack Portland
- HollaBack SoCal
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
- Guardian, “Why sexism is no laughing matter, despite what the boys might say“
Mikyamasr, “Egyptians come together in time of crisis“- AFP, “Egyptian women well represented in Tahrir protest“
- Just Out, “Portland Launches Hollaback Site to Combat Street Harassment“
- NBC, “Up-Skirt Filming Suspect Caught at Dulles“
- Dawn.com, “No more `eve-teasing`“
- Baltimore Sun, “Fighting back: Stepping into the world of self-defense“
- Boing Boing, “Hollaback: fighting street harassment, one uploaded nimrod at a time“
- Sify News, “Bangladesh says ‘eve-teasing’ belittles sex crimes“
- Feminist Law Professors, “Harassment Intersection: Gender, Race, Class“
- The Beautiful Struggler, “Feminist Fight, Mars/Venus, Race Matters – Nobody Smiling v 2.0“
- Jezebel, “The War Against Street Harassment Goes Global“
- Prague Blog!, “My name isn’t Sweetheart – HOLLABACK!“
Events:`
- Feb. 12: HollaBack Baltimore Launch Party, Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles Street, 8 p.m.
- Feb. 13: Street harassment planning meeting, In Other Words, Portland, OR, 6 p.m.
- Feb. 24: Stop Street Harassment Book Talk, James Madison University (VA), 6:30 p.m.
- Feb. 26: HollaBack Atlanta’s launch party
- Feb. 26: BLANK_NOISE’s #actionheroes college network meeting in Bangalore, India
Announcements:
New:
- Have an encounter with gender-based violence on NYC mass transit to share? http://tinyurl.com/transitstory (via RightRides)
- If you live in Washington, DC, take a street harassment survey for HollaBack DC!
- RightRides is hiring for a Communications & Outreach Intern and a Fundraising & Development Intern
On-going:
- HollaBack is seeking a program associate intern
- If you live in the United States or in Iran, please take this survey about street harassment: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/januarystudy
- Are you in Egypt? Use HarassMap to report your street harassers
- Have an iPhone? Download the Hollaback iPhone app that lets you report street harassers
Twitter:
- hollabackatl Boots and a parka are no armor against street harassment: http://bit.ly/fwLRPk
- gallifreychic went for a short run down terrigal and can’t even escape the creepy white racist pricks who when sighting an asian, catcall “nihao” at you.
- sophwarnes I’d almost forgotten about the time I saw a guy wanking on the bus in front of me. #SexualHarassment Made me feel sick.
- RightRides #Women + #LGBTQ folks – call 888-215-7233 12a-3a Fri+Sat for a free safe ride home in #NYC #Bronx #Brooklyn #Queens #fem2 #woc #p2 #safety
- jennmariel #streetharassment M estoy muriendo d calor con jean, pero no puedo ponerm un short xq algunos hombres gustan d hacerm sentir 1 pdazo d carne
- iHollaback Just got off the phone with an awesome girl who wrote an electropop song about street harassment. Music video time!
- thekateblack Hate icy weather. Creeper blocked my path with his cane, told me I should take him home. No escape route bc of snowbanks. #streetharassment
- 01_gav On the 20 minute walk to the cinema, Jess and i get loudly perved on twice. #streetharassment #WHY
- lorenacupcake Dear Street Person: Today is NOT the best day to follow me down the street screaming about how pretty I am. Fuck Off, LC #streetharassment
- HollabackOttawa Even the folks who run the iHollabacks sometimes have to hollaback. That was me this morning at McDonald’s. Ugh. http://bit.ly/i3NPWw
