If you’re in NYC with some free time on Saturday, check out this important event organized by Girls for Gender Equity. Our board member Maliyka Muhammad will attend on behalf of SSH.
This Saturday: A Hearing on Girls of Color
UK: Street harassment exhibition on Sept. 16
My name is Jennifer and I’m currently finishing my Masters in Fashion at Kingston University – London. My final project is called “It’s not my fault. It’s yours” and it is an intervention to contemporary sexual harassment through fashion.
What I have developed is an outfit with a panic alarm, siren and gps SOS button. They also have reflective fabric in some parts as another way for the women using them to get help. The main goal with this project is to criticise the point we came, regarding sexual harassment and abuse, that we have to protect ourselves even with our clothes. It’s a criticism to contemporary mentality and behaviour regarding women and the clothes they wear.
The final exhibition of my work will be during my university’s fashion show as part of London Fashion Week on the 16th of September.
National Sexual Assault Conference 2014
I’m at the National Sexual Assault Conference in Pittsburgh today to present the workshop “Getting Public Transit Systems to Address Sexual Harassment/Assault” with one of my mentors and long-time, amazing activists, Marty Langelan.
We’re looking forward to a lot of important conversations and hope we can see anti-harassment campaigns on transit systems spread nation-wide!
New Yorkers, Gather Tomorrow at 10 a.m.
New Yorkers — Tomorrow at 10 a.m. is an event to address sexual harassment on public transit.
Via Center for Anti-Education (CAE):
Tomorrow morning we’ll join Public Advocate Letitia James, HollaBack! and other anti-sexual violence orgs. to push for increased NYPD & MTA accountability regarding sexual violations on public transit. Friday, July 25, at the 4/5/6 subway station entrance closest to Chambers and Centre Street in Manhattan, 10 a.m. Join us!
India: Board the Bus for Women’s Safety This Week!
In Delhi, India, this week the global human rights organization Breakthrough launched a Board the Bus campaign, which runs through March 8, International Women’s Day. They want women to know that they have the right to occupy public places and suggest that having more women in public places can help reduce harassment.
“We’re calling on women who don’t normally take the bus to board the bus with us,” Digital Media Strategist Radhika Takru says. “We’re telling women who take the bus regularly that they don’t have to go it alone. If everyone goes together, there is a very real chance we can make the bus – or any public space – safer.”
The Board the Bus website encourages people to ride the bus to “get people thinking, talking, and acting,” and to “Take back the space that was always yours.” Participants can Tweet about their experiences with the hashtag #BoardtheBus and share a photo of their ride.
If you live in Delhi, consider joining the campaign and boarding a bus. On the last day of the campaign, March 8, join hundreds of women at 4 p.m. at Connaught Place Bus Stop. Help make those spaces safer through your presence and, as necessary, bystander intervention.
If you’re not in Delhi, you can help spread the word about the campaign to those who are, and you can participate by traveling through Delhi on your own virtual bus.