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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Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
* Huffington Post, “Egyptian Sexual Harassment Returns To Pre-Revolution Levels“
* Al Arabiya News, “Muna Khan: Keep on moving. Or why women-only transportation doesn’t have me jumping for joy“
* MSN India, “Roadside Romeo walks into women cops trap, convicted“
* CNN, “Mobile tech fights sexual harassment“
* ABC News, “New York Anti-Street Harassment Group Asks Women to Hollaback!“
* Care 2, “Guatemala Introduces Women-Only Buses“
* New Statesman, “Laughing matters?“
* Village Voice Blog, “Subway Masturbator Captured on Camera, Shamed by Brave Victim Online“
* The Times of India, “Police set up helpline for girls to tackle eve-teasing“
* Al Masry Al Youm, “The Sexual Harassment File: Do men consider women in harassment?“
* The Gothamist, “Hollaback’s Emily May Talks About Stopping Street Harassment“
* Daily News & Analysis, “Eve-teasing could now land you in jail“
Announcements:
New:
* There are only a few days left help fund Hollaback’s bystander campaign, “I’ve Got Your Back“
Reminders/On-Going:
* The UN launches a “Safe and Friendly Cities for All” campaign
* Sign Mend the Gap’s petition to address subway harassment in Delhi, India
* College students, enter the Hollaback essay contest, entries due August 1.
* 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
15 Tweets from the Week:
1. Karnythia @CreoleSoul I am a headphone girl when I go out. So I miss all but the most direct efforts. I get a lot of street harassment.
2. iHollaback We are so grateful to NYC councilmember @bradlander for supporting our work in ending street harassment!
3. ArriannaMarie But honestly… I have had days where I had anxiety about leaving the house & walking down the street to work or class. #StreetHarassment
4. ruthie_dee @hkearl It happens so often I can’t even remember. Always makes me feel angry/self-conscious/humiliated though. #streetharassment
5. FinerFeminist I feel so strongly about street harassment I might tweet every line of this article separately.
6. HelenCLondon I’ve had a man walk past me, grab my bum but actually get his fingers somewhere they REALLY shouldn’t be #streetharassment.
7. The42BusDC if law enforcement responded to verbal and street harassment now, they could spend less time dealing with assaults and such down the road.
8. amandahess L.A. street harassment does not disappoint. Thanks, guy who aggressively offered to shake my hand throughout tonight’s Metro ride!
9. Cillygrrl14 So glad I can go outside again. Above about 25 degrees there’s so much sexist street harassment it’s not worth it.
10. thinkelizabeth just told a street harasser in DC “I can’t believe u just said that” and it stopped him cold. 1st time I’ve had success #streetharassment
11. femmeniste Last night, a guy who looked like a bargain basement Fabio got in my face to tell me I looked “so hot.” It was quite rude. #StreetHarassment
12. LizaEckert Dude just made kissy noise out of a delivery truck. Flipped him off. Should have taken picture. #streetharassment
13. thinkelizabeth just told a street harasser in DC “I can’t believe u just said that” and it stopped him cold. 1st time I’ve had success #streetharassment
14. ruthie_dee Strange as it may seem, I don’t actually enjoy being honked at, pervy fat man. #streetharassment
15. hiddenblackbird So, our car breaks down in Sioux City. Awesome. Let’s stand on the street corner and count how many people catcall at us!
