Today was the fourth day of International Anti-Street Harassment Week!

Here are a few highlights:

More media coverage, including:

Daily Beast | BuzzFeed | Autostraddle | Liberation (France)

There were THREE tweet chats today:

1) Everyday Feminism and Fem2Pt0 hosted a conversation about street harassment, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.

2) Everyday Health hosted a chat about street harassment and health with several anti-street harassment groups and health leaders.

3) Secular Woman hosted a chat about harassment women face at conferences.

Notable Achievements:

Congratulations to our co-sponsors Safetipin for winning the Avon Communications’ Innovative Campaign Award! Download their free app and document how safe you feel places and check out what others have to say!

Some of the events that took place:

Safe City Nepal held dance performances and handed out flyers at a new location in Kathmandu again.

Hollaback! Dublin organized an event called “Exploring Street Harassment through Film” where the showed a variety of street harassment documentaries.

Hollaback! Bangalore led a workshop at a university in India.

Hollaback! Tucson and OASIS held a “Street Harassment 101: An Introduction” workshop at the University of Arizona’s Campus Health building.

A University of Illinois student group painted anti-street harassment messages on the windows of local businesses along Green Street, a campus town street rife with street harassment.

Hollaback! Twin Cities hosted an Open Mic Night at the Minnehaha Free Space in Minneapolis.

The Brooklyn Movement Center and the Brecht Forum held the event “PLANET BROOKLYN: Beyond Catcalls,” which explored street harassment incidents and organizing in the borough over the past 40 years. The intergenerational panel featured four Brooklynites contextualizing unhealthy masculinity, criminalization and gentrification within the broader anti-street harassment movement.

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture and Collective Action for Safe Spaces co-hosted a workshop at MLK Library

There was a Human Trafficking Awareness Month event at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.

BraveHeart Hawaii did sidewalk chalking yesterday (we missed the pics until today!)

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See the photo album of events.

Remember — here’s the report form where you can say how your action went (no matter how big or small). This information will be used for the annual wrap-up report and potentially for articles about the week.

Today was the third day of International Anti-Street Harassment Week!

Here are a few highlights:

The week got coverage in major media outlets like the New York Times | BuzzFeed | Ms. Magazine | Chicago Public Media

We held our second tweet chat with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center on the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

HollabackPHILLY, a project of Feminist Public Works, launched amazing new anti-harassment ads for the Philadelphia transit system in Pennsylvania.

Safe Delhi/Jagori hosted a Street Cafe in Delhi, India.

Safe City Nepal held a dance performance and handed out flyers at various locations in Kathmandu.

Bristol University Feminist Society organized a discussion about street harassment in Bristol, UK.

Observatorio Paremos el Acoso Sexual Callejero held a screening of War Zone with a discussion led by Humanities professor Victoria Guerrero at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, in Lima, Peru.

In Massachusetts, Hollaback! Boston held a film screening of the documentary War Zone

Zerlina Mazwell gave a campus talk at the University of Illinois about rape culture, sexism and racism, and street harassment.

Brooklyn Technical High School held a talk on street harassment in New York.

Several of our volunteers, the organizers of the Rally Against Rape and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority handed out anti-harassment flyers at the Rosslyn Metro station in Arlington in Virginia.

The University of Scranton in Pennsylvania held a “Violence Free Zone” workshop focused on forms of gender violence, how to intervene, and resources.

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See the photo album of events.

Our next Tweet Chat is tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET with Everyday Feminism and Fem2Pt0 who will talk about the connections between street harassment and sexism, homophobia and transphobia.

We have a new Tweet Chat scheduled for 3 p.m. ET tomorrow with Every Day Health and Hollaback!

And at 8 p.m. ET there will be a chat by Secular Woman about harassment at conferences. Woo!

#EndSH

Today was the second day of International Anti-Street Harassment Week!

Here are a few highlights:

A Bitch Media article about the Stop Telling Women to Smile wheat pasting night happening later this week.

Hollaback! Bahamas held a Chalk Talk to engage people in conversation about the sidewalk chalk messages they posted last night. Their Chalk Walk yesterday made the newspaper and there will be another article tomorrow.

Safe City Nepal held a Torch Rally with placards, “We demand street lights for women’s safety”, Bhadrakali-Shahid Gate, Kathmandu.

In Belgium, Hollaback! Gent put up one of the banners they made about street harassment. This one focuses on bystanders and reads, “If mean words stream, you can come in between.”

The #LondonLoves campaign featuring anti-harassment messages at London Landmarks is underway.

In Canada, Women in Cities International held a workshop about street harassment with girls.

In Arizona, Hollaback! Tucson hosted a “Meet Us on the Mall” event at the University of Arizona. They had info about street harassment, feminism, Transgender Day of Awareness, and more + goody bags and picture booths.

The first tweet chat took place today. Four feminist activists co-lead a tweet chat about #streetharassment, especially the young age it starts, how it impacts us, and what we can do about it: @ZerlinaMaxwell @nualacabral @RaquelReichard @Besito86

Community Against Violence in New Mexico was on the Paddy Mac show on 101.9 K-Taos Solar Radio Show and in the Taos News

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See the photo album of events.

Our next Tweet Chat is tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET with SSH, National Sexual Violence Resource Center and PreventConnect as we talk about how street harassment connects to sexual violence and rape culture and what we can do about it. Use #EndSH