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Film: “Ovarian Psycos”

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UPDATE: Support the film’s Kickstarter campaign!

This new filmOvarian Psycos film is premiering at SXSW!

“The Ovarian Psycos gear up and ride out into the night, fanning out in pairs of two, four, and six. In constant motion, cruising up and down the storied streets of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, and Lincoln Heights, they call out to new riders to join them in a journey through the neighborhood. “Whose streets? Our streets!”

Since forming in the summer of 2011 by activist, poet M.C., and single mother, Xela de la X, the Ova’s have made it their mission to cycle for the purpose of healing, reclaiming their neighborhoods, and creating safer streets for women on the Eastside. At first only attracting a few local women, over the past few years the Ovarian Psycos have inspired a ferocious and unapologetic crowd of local heroines who are a visible force along the barrios and boulevards of Los Angeles.

Ovarian Psycos rides along with the Ova’s, exploring the impact of the group’s brand of feminism on neighborhood women and communities as they confront the violence in their lives.”

Wonderful!

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OCAC Chile Supports an Anti-Street Harassment Law

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Sharing via an e-mail from OCAC Chile:

“By sharing an impactful video, OCAC Chile (Chilean Observatory Against Street Harassment) aims to promote a bill for preventing street harassment. In a non-expected way, the video shows that girls start being harassed in public spaces when they are 10 years old. The organization is calling on civil society from all around the world to sign a petition to support the local bill. The petition can be signed here.

The Respeto Callejero bill was recently approved by the Chilean Citizen Security Commission of the Lower House and now will be discussed by the Constitution Commission.”

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Mexican Women Fight Street Harassment with Songs and Confetti

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I love these anti-street harassment fighters in Mexico!!

Mexico's Harassment Issue

“You talk to me as if you were going to rape me.”These Mexican women are fighting street harassers with confetti guns and punk rock.

Posted by AJ+ on Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Transcript in English:

Ana Káren: We’re walking down the street, when we are harassed…we run to that person’s car, we grab the confetti gun, we turn on the speakers and we sing, “Sexist Punk.”

Song: “What you just did to me is called harassment, if you do that to me, this is how I respond.”

Ana Beatriz: We have to respond, and if with that response we can encourage more women yo do it, that’s the ideal.

Ana Káren: We recommend you that it should be fun, so that you keep that sensation of violence that you just experience, and you can leave in peace and know that you can still have a great day.

Ana Beatriz: We definitely don’t believe that we are going to change the world. But we certainly know we have changed ours.

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