Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.
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Street Harassment Stories:
Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:
Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Many of the Hollaback sites
In the News, on the Blogs:
* The Times of India, “Child rights panel takes up cases of sex abuse of street children“
* Tunisia Live, “Talk is Cheap: Addressing Sexual Harassment in Tunisia“
* Mama Mia, “Is wolf whistling sexual harassment?“
* Deccan Herald, “Woman power hits back with ‘girlcott’“
* Sunday’s Zaman, “Is harassment cultural?“
* Jeddah Mind Trick, “Walking While Covered“
* RH Reality Check, “Dispatches from AWID 2012: Arab Spring Becomes a Chill for Women, But The Organizing Continues“
* The Washington Examiner, “D.C. bill targets gropers and flashers on Metro“
* Nieuwsblad Brussels, “Met stoepkrijt ten strijde tegen seksueel geweld“
* BBC 4 Radio, “My Name is Not ‘Hey Baby’“
* Chicago Tribune, “Neighbor thwarts assault on woman“
* The Times of India, “Hounded by eve-teasers, girl ends life“
* Rookie, “All Locked Up“
* Bell Bajao, “Do we dare to wear what we want?“
* Washington Post, “Man sexually assaulted near National Gallery of Art“
* Times of India, “Male passengers forcibly occupy women coaches in mainline electrical multiple unit trains“
* Bougie Black Girl, “My and probably your experience with Street Harassment.“
* Reston Patch, “It’s Trail Season – Be Careful Out There” | My response blog post.
Activism Announcements:
New:
* Siobhan Benita is an Independent candidate for Mayor of London and she put street harassment on her campaign agenda
* In Washington, DC, Ward 4 City Council Member Muriel Bowser introduced legislation that will make it easier to prosecute people who expose themselves in public (e.g. public masturbators and flashers)
* @fluffmuffin10 I’m looking for interviewees for street harassment research. Email me for further info! emma.lovell10@googlemail.com
* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA
* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk
Reminders:
* If you’re in the New York City area, take this survey about harassment on public transportation.
* Gay and bisexual men, take this survey about street harassment (you can be in any location).
* 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
20 Tweets from the Week:
1. @bianchisoul Walking down street, 2 guys lean out of car and subject me to unprovoked, vile and sustained barrage of verbal sexual harassment #feminist
2. @garnethenderson Had a man try to touch my leg on the subway and got catcalled on my walk home all in one night. #streetharassment
3. @pilotbacon Some guy just yelled “get in my car” at me & I got insulted that he didn’t compliment me first. C’mon bro, that’s a command, not a catcall.
4. @ThisIsBlueKid What if everytime I get a catcall or an ‘aye mami’ I licked that person’s face? Best/worst social experiment ever?
5. @Make_it_nASHty “The street harassment needs to stop” #whoisthisdude
6. @LDRphotography The amount of street harassment we women have to put up with in this town is outrageous. Worse place I’ve ever lived
7. @DracoDoza #Street #harassment makes me want to punch people in the face. Repeatedly. Because I endure it, repeatedly.
8. @RidiculousMegan First street harassment incident of my move to #Toronto so not cool.
9. @EFLI_LiFe Safe street campaign: “Let’s change social acceptability of sexual harassment!” why is it ok? Babies say: don’t harass my mom! #awidforum
10. @sarahofaoh Street harassment is a daily thing for me whenever I’m in cities. Ugh. So happy I have headphones.
11. @chaneldubofsky what if everyone who saw the #street #harassment called the person out on doing it? instead of ignoring it? #accountability
12. @sparksf Egypt: take blame away from women- her dress, the time of day she is on street- there is now a sticker for anti-harassment biz #awidforum
13. @enf_2 walking home alone at 11:20 pm, some guy yells out his truck window, “you’re —-ing smoking hot.” #leavemealone #streetharassment
14. @blasianallie #YouKnowWhatAnnoysMe? #streetharassment.
15. @lucyswope Over-the-shoulder finger to “damn, boo, look at the hips on that.” #streetharassment
16. @thleenzo Told @gallo_extreme that #streetharassment is the #1 reason I don’t wear revealing clothing. Now he wants to know how he can help stop it.
17. @vanillawindz Just being a women walking on the street regardless of whether in Sari or shorts invites sick comments from cheapsters #streetharassment
18. @Melissa_Higgs On TFL Northern line: man deliberately walking into women walking on the left towards him to get a grope, then grinning #streetharassment
19. @iHollaback “No means no means no. In the bar, a bedroom, and the STREET.” Biden on VAWA. Think he knows about hollaback?
20. @thekateblack Police are looking for this L train masturbator for targeting me and a gradeschool aged girl. http://pic.twitter.com/G5X6MekW
