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West Philly Conversations about Street Harassment

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Check it out! And many thanks to FAAN Mail co-founder Nuala for letting me know about it.

“Conversations From The Bench is a collaborative web-video series addressing important social justice issues in a participatory documentary format.

In Episode 2, we go “Under The El” in West Philadelphia to start conversations with passers-by about street harassment,“catcalling”, questions of having to grow up too fast, and if the way a woman dresses defines her…This project was a collaboration between four grad students from the University of Pennsylvania (located in West Philadelphia) and four West Philadelphia High School (WPHS) students as part of a class entitled “Social Change Through Participatory Filmmaking”.”

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Tunisia Street Harassment Study

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In 2016 in Tunisia, the Center for Research, Studies, Documentation and Information on Women interviewed 3,000 randomly selected women, aged 18 to 64, from 200 urban and rural geographic areas across the country. 53.5 percent experienced psychological or physical violence at least once in public spaces between 2011 and 2015. Their experiences included being followed by men to being insulted or sexually harassed. 41 percent of women reported having experienced physical violence in public.

“A recent international study found that Tunisia is the only country in the Arab world and Africa where women report being harassed both for dressing religiously and for dressing too liberally. Street interviews conducted by Tunisia Live in April found that Tunisian women of various backgrounds consider street harassment “part of our daily lives.” “

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Street Harasser Causes Traffic Accident

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This street harasser caused an accident!!!!!! ‪#‎StupidandDangerous‬

Via Syracuse.com:

“Syracuse, N.Y. — A two-vehicle accident at North Salina and James streets this morning was caused by a man honking at a woman who was walking to work, witnesses said.

The man was driving a black Hyundai on Salina Street about 8:20 a..m. when he started honking at the woman, several witnesses said. The car then pulled out into the intersection and struck a pickup truck pulling a utility trailer, they said.

Minutes after the accident, the driver of the Hyundai lay nearly motionless in the road next to his car. Ambulances arrived within minutes and the man, who was conscious, was put on a stretcher.”

H/T Donna Seymour

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Attention Artists: Have Your Work Featured by SSH and Feminist Apparel

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I have an exciting opportunity to share —

Feminist Apparel is setting up collaborations with nonprofits like SSH where they will sell shirts and related products for us and the nonprofit will get a portion of each sale, to be split with the artist who creates the shirt designs. Also, the artists will get shoutouts/link love on the FA and SSH websites.

We’re looking for artists who are interested in having their designs considered for the products!

What file type/size should I send my design in?

Send vectorized files or photoshop or TIFF files, no less than 300dpi at 12 inch by 12 inch Also, make sure all images are on a transparent background.

Note: They already partner with Hollaback, so don’t want to duplicate any of their designs.

Send design ideas to Holly at HKearl @ Stopstreetharassment. org

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BASH Minneapolis

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Twyla is a student at South High School in Minneapolis, MN. For her humanities finals she did a “ripple effect” project where she choose something that’s important to her and do something to make a difference about it. She chose sexual harassment in Minneapolis, MN. Her group and she created an informational website about how street harassment effects their community and ways to stop it.

BASH Minneapolis May 2016

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