Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week.
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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:
Many of the Hollaback sites
In the News, on the Blogs:
* Hura, “For the Harassers Only: Yemeni Women are not Prostitutes“
* The Sydney Morning Herald, “Low expectations, not necklines, to blame for misogyny“
* Jezebel, “Woman Gets Super Sweet Valentine’s Day Note Asking Her Not to Dress Like Such a Whore“
* Daily News & Analysis, “These women will bring you to your knees“
* Maps4Aid, “Street Sexual Harassment: 20 year old Student saves sister from molesters, beaten up.”
* IAfrica.com, “Miniskirts paralyse Joburg” and Washington Post, “South African women wear miniskirts, march through Johannesburg to protest sexual harassment“
* Khaama Press, “Afghan women suffer street harassment“
* NZHerald, “Friend watches girl’s ‘violent’ assault“
* The Morung Express, “A view on Dimapur“
* Women’s Web, “Talking about Street Sexual Harassment“
* Oppression is Yucky, “trigger warning sexual assault, street harassment, disordered eating, mental health.”
* Women Speak, “I felt like the perpetrator“
Activism Announcements:
New:
* College men in the USA share tips on how men can stop street harassment
* Women in South Africa marched against street harassment; women in Afghanistan held an event showing art and a documentary about street harassment
Reminders:
* SSH founder Holly Kearl is quoted in the March 2012 issue of Cosmo magazine with advice on dealing with gropers. Read an extended version of her advice on the blog.
* If you live in the Washington, DC-area, you can testify about harassment on the Metro system at a hearing on Feb. 22. Details.
* What were you wearing when you got stared at or street harassed? Submit your photo
* Start planning for International Anti-Street Harassment Week, March 18-24
* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.
* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. @SpookSquad I can relate to that very high level of stress. MT@hkearl: woman w/PTSD says #streetharassment can cause her 2 have panic attacks, disassociate
2. @froovyjosie I think I am going to write a blog post about street harassment. And how f*cking frustrating/scary it can be. ARGH
3. @Lailaelrefai writing dissertation about sexual harassment in #egypt. sources are hard to find. please link me to any reports or books you know of. #EndSH
4. @iHollaback We’re on a call with our site leaders developing a cross-site cross-culuture survey on #streetharassment!
5. @NadaHKandil Walking to the bus stop with my neighbour,got followed by a construction worker who only stopped when a taxi driver shouted at him :/ #EndSH
6. @dopegirlfresh street harassment begins seems to have one source: a sense of entitlement. nobody owes you a hello. IDGAF what you think.
7. @WomenSpeakPro Street harassment makes women change their routine, become defensive and wary, as if they’re the perpetrators. womenspeak.tumblr.com/post/177142043…
8. @tanya_elena @hkearl actually, #sexualharrassment is much better on #wmata than Ny #mta. If only so much wasn’t from agency staff…
9. @jesseadamsstein Good opinion by @Jo_Tovey on sexual harassment on the street: as women well know, it’s not about what you’re wearing bit.ly/x2VpiI
10. @jatshea I frequently give the finger to men who catcall me.
