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:
Share your story! You can read new street harassment stories on the Web from the past week at:
Street Harassment in the News, on the Blogs:
* Deccan Herald, “No safety for women anywhere…“
* Venus Genus, “‘I didn’t want to give a strange man…my phone number and got slapped for my troubles“
* Feministe, “The Politics of ‘Hello‘”
* Daily Bhaskar, “Youth murdered for objecting to eve-teasing of sister“
* Care2, “Should Seoul’s Subway Have Women-Only Sections?”
* Gothamist, “Upper East Side Serial Groper Strikes Again!“
* XO Jane, “True Tales of Street Harassment (And My Anger Issues)“
* Cluth Magazine, “Ladies Beware: Flasher Website Targets Black & Asian Women“
* The Times of India, “CISF leads drive to check eve-teasing in Delhi Metro“
* My High School Journalism, “Harassed on the Subway? Say Something!“
* SexGenderBody, “Growing into Street Harassment“
* IBN Live, “CISF undertakes anti-eve-teasing drive in metro stations“
Announcements:
New:
* Next Sunday, August 14, the Washington Post is publishing a major piece on street harassment in the magazine!
Reminders/On-Going:
* Do you have a stare that can turn #streetharassers to stone? Then participate in the Medusa Gaze Project! http://tinyurl.com/6fhh3tz
* Sign Mend the Gap’s petition to address subway harassment in Delhi, India
* 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
20 Tweets from the Week:
1. butilovememore it’s not a compliment. its harassment. #streetharassment
2. ruthie_dee Reading tweets about #streetharassment… I’m SO angry that this happens to so many women and girls. Our bodies are not your property!
3. jennpozner Started w/me@ 12, too! MT @thehotnerd #StreetHarassment must stop, esp 2kids. Like pedophiles. Didn’t need 2know how nice my boobs were@ 12
4. Karnythia I see a lot of guys who are struggling with hearing about this, but #streetharassment is coming from men that you know too.
5. lashonp I’m thankful guys don’t grab my arm anymore. I’ve cut mofos w/words & wanted 2 do more yrs ago. #streetharassment is real & dangerous
6. resistasista #arentyoutiredof sexual harassment in the workplace and on the street #feminism
7. originalMiss_R Wlking thru southend hi street wiv shorts on equals HARASSMENT rite now
8. NajmMyriam Dear soldier standing on the sidewalk, just keep your mouth shut when i pass by! Sincerely, tired of street harassment. #fb
9. Bell_Bajao RT @womensweb: #whatareyoulookingat street sexual harassment needs no reason cept that a woman is around. presence = reason. cc @Bell_Bajao
10. ArriannaMarie Leaving the house, at one time, was a point of great anxiety b/c I hated to be subjected to the gauntlet of street harassment.
11. jAD0ReQUi @dreamhampton guys don’t understand how scary that is & the extra constant precautions we have to take as women because men don’t accept no
12. LilEsBella When you can’t walk down the street because some man old enough to be your grandfather is trying to touch you there’s a prob @dreamhampton
13. dreamhampton I was 5, in a bathing suit at a beach, when a grown ass man interrupted me from sandcastle building to tell me ‘damn! I wanna meet yr Mama!’
14. ttaraturk @dreamhampton I stopped riding the Detroit buss because some OLD dude exposed himself . I was traumatized. My parents couldn’t explain it.
15. dreamhampton As a mother of a teenager blk girl Id like to say: blk girl gets harrassed by adult blk men a trillion xs more often than blk boy do by pigs
16. Cx87 Why do some men think hollering at a woman is acceptable? How would they feel if it was their wife/daughter/mother? #streetharassment
17. thehotnerd #StreetHarassment needs to stop, especially toward children. No better than pedophiles. Didn’t need to know how nice my boobs were at 12.
18. PoshBirdGabi Did you know #streetharassment is not allowed in Libya? #hollaback @iHollaback #nwo
19. asrichardson I wish I could rt @dreamhampton‘s entire timeline. I’m enraged by the harassment women face but empowered by the sharing of our experiences
20. Crislex @dreamhampton I agree with you. Black women on a DAILY BASIS are dehumanized and degraded in broad daylight by their own counterparts. sick
