Stop Street Harassment

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NY: Join the Goddess Walk on Saturday!

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Via Facebook Event Page

THE GODDESS WALK is an Anti-Street Harassment rally taking place in BED-STUY BROOKLYN.  I invite Black women, LGBTQ folk and our Allies to walk in Solidarity & Sisterhood for RESPECT in the streets & to help END STREET HARASSMENT in our community!!!

               SATURDAY JULY 14th at 12pm

                       ~FULTON PARK~

                        BROOKLYN, NY

Participants are encouraged to *Dress in whatever* makes them feel like a GODDESS!

Bring ROSES (we’ll drop the rose petals along our walk:) Signs, Posters, Banners that EXPRESS your desire to be respected regardless of your gender, race, color, or sexual orientation!!!

We’ll start our Walk in Fulton Park at 12pm, then walk through the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. Following the march there will be Spoken WORD, Live DRUMMING, SINGING, DANCING, & Small Group Self -Defense Demonstrations in the park!

Nearest Transit: A, C to Utica Ave.

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We were at SlutWalk DC 2013!

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For the third year, Stop Street Harassment tabled at SlutWalk DC to support the end to victim-blaming and slut-shaming. No one “asks” to be harassed, sexually assaulted, or raped!

This year, we had the pleasure of sharing a table with our friend Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) and we had lots of great conversations with attendees about the street harassment.

Zosia from CASS and I also had a chance to briefly talk in front of the audience. I asked people to raise their hands if they had been street harassed this week – and most of the audience raised their hands! When I asked if they’d been harassed today, about a fourth of the audience said yes. Street harassment is a HUGE problem and we need to work together to end it!

Here are resources and check out what we do and what CASS does.

Here are a few of the photos. You can see more via our Twitter and Instagram accounts, both have the username @StopStHarassmnt.

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Researchers to Map the Anti-Street Harassment Network

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How can nonviolent grassroots networks – including the network to stop street harassment – transform insecurity?

This is a research question that a team at the University of Bristol will answer over the next 18 months thanks to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant they were recently awarded. The team is led by Dr Eric Herring, Research Director of SPAIS (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies).

Here’s a brief summary of the project:

“The project will explore how three existing networks — a neighborhood watch to prevent suicide bomb attacks in Somalia; projects to record every casualty of armed conflict in many countries in the global South; and projects to stop the street harassment of women in the global North and South — relate to the state, global governance and all actors that use and threaten violence. It will also explore these ideas in relation to grassroots security actors which are seeking to network with each other across issue areas.”

Visit the project’s website to learn more.

I’ve chatted twice with Eric and his colleague Karen Desborough and I’m excited to report that I am now a “Research Collaborator” for the street harassment-specific part of the project. So stay tuned for more information about the project and how it will help strengthen our network and efforts to stop street harassment!

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Video Interview with Tatyana Fazalizadeh

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Here’s a great video interview from Quiet Lunch Magazine with artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, the person behind the amazing “Stop Telling Women to Smile” project. Don’t forget, you can now bring her art work to your community!

“The posters are directed toward men…but the posters are really for women. When they walk past it, I want them to feel like they have a voice, they have an advocate for them, they have somebody out there speaking up for them.” – Tatyana

After featuring her work on the Stop Street Harassment blog periodically since Oct. 2012, I’m excited to FINALLY meet her in person on Sunday to discuss possible collaboration!

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