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* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Tomorrow there is an open mic in Cairo. Share your street harassment and sexual harassment stories.

Reminders:

* Tonight in DC is a benefit concert for Collective Action for Safe Spaces

* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* 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

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @mzjudge People who encourage exercise should also advocate to stop street harassment. How do you expect folks to jog when they don’t feel safe?

2. @_jenniwithani I hate that street harassment can still ruin my night.

3. @umberg: @EverydaySexism street harassment count tonight: 11

4. @oh_so_random Street harassment is real in DC though. I’m bothered by the aggressive entitled behavior by many men I’ve encountered on the streets here

5. @mirabaz Incidents of street harassment while dressed freely: only 1 in 17 months, walking past a construction site

6. @jesssolomon A few blocks N of Howard U is full of zombies, and one just literally tried to grab me. #streetharassment #dc

7. @PennyRed ‘I’m here with my mum and little sisters and you’re yelling dirty, sexist things, it’s not ok.’ They seemed genuinely shocked and sorry.

8. @MaiE_89 Hamzawy: We need legislation that targets sexual harassment specifically. #Egypt #EndSH

9. @SafeSpacesDC Props to the Cops: Arrest Made in Sexual Assaults near # Dupont Circle http://bit.ly/TZPfK9 via @popville @DCPoliceDept #vaw #DC

10. @yesgawdhunty If you catcall me, I’ll give you mean look and call you a worthless sack of shit. You’ve been warned.

11. @erindwyer Get outta ur shitbox car #dirtypervs to catcall me so I can enjoy knocking you to the ground. And teaching you some manners. #skells

12. @toridriggers Dear construction guys at McDonalds, if you catcall at me I’m not even going to give you the light of day. #Thisiswhyyour single

13. @sallyzohney AlMasryAlYoum reports 134 harassment cases in police stations over 3 days eiid holidays. These r just the women who spoke up! #endsh

14. @MaelleP_ #VisitEgypt but with a pepper spray. Sexual harassment during Eid in pictures http://bit.ly/MMqz7v #EndSH.

15. @NihalSaad: Patrolling started at the metro #endsh pic.twitter.com/NrjGjpHC

Send Your Art for Display in Egypt

June 1, 2012 By HKearl

Via HarassMap in Egypt:

“As part of it’s “Emsek Motaharesh” campaign Harassmap is happy to announce an Open call for artworks in any medium treating the issue of Sexual harassment, artwork is expected to reflect the realities of women negotiating public and private space, sexual harassment as it occurs from street to state assaults, how women go about their everyday life in Egypt dreaming of safety.

Selected artworks will be displayed in an exhibition in Townhouse Gallery on July 15th 2012 as part of an anti-harassment event “Ya 3asal” in association with Mashroo3 el Mareekh, Bussy, and Graffiti 7arimi.

Deadline for Artworks is June 20th, Please send us high resolution versions of your work, and let us know how you want it to be
displayed on Ya3assal@gmail.com

Note: Graffiti 7arimi are looking for new graffiti artists to join i their project for the event, if you are interested please send along your application.

Show us how creative you are!

دعوة مفتوحة للفنانين

كجزء من حملة “امسك متحرش” التي تعمل على مناهضة التحرش الجنسي وتغيير التقبل المجتمعي للمشكلة، نود دعوة الفنانين والرسامين والمصميين المصريين أن يقدموا أعمال فنية تناقش مشكلة التحرش الجنسي في المجتمع المصري.
الأعمال المقدمة يجب أن تعكس واقع المرأة المصرية وكيف تتعامل مع إعتداء الشارع تارة والدولة تارة على حرية ممارسة حياتها في المجال العام، كما يجب أن تعكس الأعمال ما تطمح إليه المرأة المصرية يوما ما من أمان في الشارع.
الأعمال الفنية المختارة سوف تعرض في معرض يقام في معرض تاون هاوس، يوم 15 يوليو ٢٠١٢ كجزء من عمل حدث مشترك بعنوان “يا عسل” بالتعاون مع مشروح المريخ، بصي، وجرافيتي جريمي.

آخر ميعاد لتقديم الأعمال الفنية سيكون يوم
20 يونيو 2012

الرجاء ارسال صور high resolution من عملك الفني واشرح لنا كيف تريد عرضه على Ya3assal@gmail.com

جرافيتي حريمي يبحثون عن فنانين جرافيتي للمشاركة معهم في التصميمات المتعلقة بالمعرض، إذا أردت المشاركة ارسل لنا على نفس الإيميل Ya3assal@gmail.com

في إنتظار إبداعاتكن/م”

SlutWalk Toronto – Year Two

May 21, 2012 By HKearl

Last year, activists in Toronto, Canada, organized a “SlutWalk” of protest after a police officer suggested to college women that they wouldn’t be victimized if they didn’t dress like sluts. The anti-victim-blaming focus touched a nerve worldwide and dozens of SlutWalks have taken place in major cities and on college campuses since then.

On Friday, SlutWalk Toronto will host their second walk. From their website:

“The prevalence of this attitude in our culture at large drew many to this cause to end blaming victims of sexual violence, and judging peoples’ worth by their bodies and what they do with them. In the last year, this fight has spread to over 200 cities around the world, where independent organizers have organized locally-driven SlutWalks and SlutWalk-inspired events. SlutWalk started, and is still going, because we and so many others around the world have had enough.

We demand our bodies and all bodies be respected. Our worth as human beings is not determined by our sexuality.

No matter what I wear
No matter what I look like
No matter what my gender expression is
No matter how much, how little or what kind of sex I have

No matter what I’ve done before
No matter where I come from
No matter how my body has been ‘devalued’ by others
No matter what I’ve been called

MY BODY IS NOT AN INSULT.

We invite you to join us on Friday May 25, 2012, as we take up space and fight for our right to live free of violence, victim-blaming and sex-shaming. We invite people of all gender expressions and orientations, all walks of life, levels of employment and education, all races, ages, abilities, and backgrounds, from all points of this city and elsewhere to come as you are, dressed as you feel comfortable.

UPDATE and MORE INFO

Due to availability of public space in Toronto, we are having a slight shift in time and date. Instead of the originally planned Saturday afternoon on May 26, come out and meet us on Friday May 25, early evening. We’ll be meeting at 5pm at Nathan Phillips Square. The rally will start walking at 5:30 sharp up University Ave. to Queen’s Park. Speakers will be at Queen’s Park between 6:30 and 7pm, finishing up before 8 p.m.Participants are welcome to meet at Queen’s Park and not Nathan Phillips Square if this is a more accessible option for anyone present. Volunteer marshals will be at Queen’s Park, south of the legislative building for this option.

We look forward to seeing you all there, and will have more details about speakers and route specifics to share as they become available.

If you’d like to volunteer and help out with SWTO 2012, we’d love to have you.”

Best of luck to them on SlutWalk year #2!

Renewed Efforts to Pass Egyptian Anti-Sexual Harassment Law

May 15, 2012 By HKearl

Before the Egyptian Revolution in early 2011, a law against sexual harassment – including the sexual harassment that happens in the streets – was making its way through the Egyptian Parliament. Since the Revolution, not much has happened, though activists have continued to bring attention to the widespread problem of sexual harassment and street harassment and continue to advocate for a law.

In exciting news, this week, Egypt’s liberal Free Egyptians Party (FEP) declared its support for an anti-sexual harassment law.

Via Al Arabiya News:

“According to the report, the party condemned in a statement the ‘shameful stance of the female parliament members of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), who stand against a woman’s right to defend herself and refuse to condemn the man who assaulted the woman and only blame the society and the woman, who is the victim.’

Two-thirds of the Egyptian women experience sexual harassment on a daily basis, according to a 2008 statistics published by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights.

FEP member Mina Mounir was quoted as saying that the party supports women in their fight against sexual harassment ‘which became widespread in Egyptian society and must be combated, through community outreach, and encouraging citizens to be positive and not allow harassment of girls in the street, or public transportation.’

On Saturday, the FEP took part in a protest organized by women’s rights organizations in central Cairo against the sexual harassment phenomenon.”

Good! And tomorrow evening, hundreds of people will gather together to speak out against sexual harassment in Cairo. Via their Facebook event page:

“We are a group of Egyptian initiatives and activists supporting Egyptian Women’s full right to access public spaces such as streets, transport freely and safely. It’s evident now that sexual harassment has become a painful daily reality, threatening our lives. Through our campaign “Nefsy” or “I aspire” we hope to reflect our aspirations; our campaign is inspired from our daily personal experiences.

The first activity of this campaign will be conducting “Salasel” which is simply gathering and standing next to each other each one with a message this message carries an aspiration to the streets of Cairo. we have chosen Wednesday May 16th to be our first (yet not the last) action come and invite your friends- men and women are welcome.”

If you’re in Cairo, I hope you can join them. Everyone deserves a life that is free from sexual harassment and sexual violence.

Walk for Respect in Nepal

April 28, 2012 By HKearl

Today 500 youth participated in a Walk for Respect against street harassment/sexual harassment in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Via YouTube:

“We silently walked through footpaths carrying various banners and placards up to Kathmandu Durbar Square.

Objective
1. To sensitize the greater problem among youths as well as other people i.e. eve teasing and sexual harassment.
2. Boost the morale of the people to face the challenges in this issue
3. Aware the people of existing laws and policies of Nepal
4. Gather public support to force the government to take necessary steps in these issues.
5. Warn the culprits that their misbehaviors are illegal and they can be punished for their misdeeds.”

Via CNN:

“The main theme of our campaign is to sensitize the greater problem among youths as well as other people i.e. eve teasing and sexual harassment. We want to boost the morale of the people to face the challenges in this issue and aware the people of existing laws and policies of Nepal. Eve teasing and sexual harassment are serious violation of Human Rights. As an aware conscious citizen we cannot tolerate the violation of Human rights. That’s why this issue needs to be addressed immediately and needs to be acted ASAP.”

One of the participants Pragya shakya said, “It’s high time we raise our voices. We have been suppressed in so many ways and why should we always suffer. The Government has made the rules against eve teasing and sexual harassment so why are we keeping our silence. We will not keep our silence it’s our right to speak, walk and talk with freedom and no one can take this away from us. Like said above people have no right to tell us what to wear first they should stop thinking bad. It’s my right to be who I’m but it’s against law to make me feel harassed.”

Good for them for speaking out!

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