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Digest of Street Harassment News: January 20, 2014

January 20, 2014 By SSHIntern

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Street Harassment Stories:

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Bijoya in Bangladesh

Collective Action for Safe Spaces

The Hollaback sites

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Safe City India

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Hollaback, “Week In Our Shores: Getting the Word Out Edition!”

* Hindustan Times, “Street art takes on sexual harassment”

* Al-Monitor, “Sexual harassment in Egypt still widespread”

* Authint Mail, “In Kasmir, parents of victim girls seek punishment for “drunk” eve-teasers”

* The New Indian Express, “Were You Asking to be Eve-teased in That Dress?”

* EurasiaNet, “More Reflections on Azerbaijan: When Will the Catcalls Stop?”

* RH Reality Check, “PSA Raises Awareness of Street Harassment in Egypt”

* CBC News, “Sexual harassment on the rise on transit, say police”

* Greater Greater Washington, “Raising awareness can curb street harassment”

* Jezebel, “Philly Has a Street Harasser Who Drapes His Dick in Swiss Cheese”

* Huffington Post, “Here’s The Best Way To Holler At A Woman On The Street”

* Hollaback, “Street Harassment and Internet Harassment: One and the Same?“

Announcements:

* We’re collecting stories about the street harassment of LGBQTAI people for a new web section — please consider sharing yours, if relevant!

* Meet SSH’s newest board member, Patrick Ryne McNeil, who specializes in the street harassment of gay and bisexual men.

* Welcome SSH’s spring intern Kendra Corbin!

* SSH’s first Blog Correspondents cohort of 2014 launched this month. They will write monthly articles through April.

10 Tweets from the Week:

* @Dontharassmebro “Hey mama, why are you angry? You’re beautiful. How about a smile?” 1. Not your mom. 2. No one asked your opinion. 3. No. #streetharassment

* @itnlpolitical “Ohh, I really want to marry that guy that whistled to me from his car!” .. said no girl ever. #streetharassment

* @sadiasmusings #lifeofamuslimfeminist #streetharassment listening to drunk white men catcall me as Muslim men on the side do nothing

* @rrachaelrae @EverydaySexism walking with boyfriend wearing shorts and a t-shirt, guy driving past yells at me “SLUT!” #everydaysexism #streetharassment

* @Sharon_Haywood when I askd my harasser if he was talking to me he said no-after getting over the shock that I actually have a voice

* @hollabackmumbai I was walking with my dad & a guy casually walks past us & knocks his elbows on my breasts #stories #harassment #endSH

* @msbrandiebrown Wish I was paying attention and said/did something 🙁 #EndSH #MBTAcreeps

* @maria_delrio I’ve just been catcalled in Catalan. It is still not ok. No matter the language you use, its discomforting and intrusive #EndSH

* @RSwirling Obviously we’re all obliged to listen to #streetharassment too – it’s their free speech rights to call me a whore all day

* @manda4444 Catcalling and street harassment is just that–harassment. Telling someone to take it as a compliment is ignorant and degrading.

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Video: “On The Catwalk”

January 8, 2014 By HKearl

“This short documentary delves into perceptions and women’s experiences with street harassment and how to combat unwanted verbal aggression.” By Ashley Duff, featuring Hollaback! Appalachian Ohio

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2013: 30 New Resources

December 30, 2013 By HKearl

Not only were there important efforts to stop street harassment and memorable stories from individuals who stopped street harassers, but there were also many new resources!

Here are 30 of them:

1. A new study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) shed light on the levels of discrimination faced by LGBT members of the EU community, with important findings related to how this demographic experiences street harassment.

2. “Put Yourself in Her Shoes” PSA from UN Women’s Egyptian office.

3. A PSA from Whistling Woods International, a film school in India, that forces men to consider how creeping and inappropriate their leering is. No one is entitled to another person’s body!

4. “Conceptual understandings and prevalence of sexual harassment and street harassment,” a new publication by Bianca Fileborn, a Research Officer with ACSSA at the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

5. The Brooklyn Movement Center‘s “Street Harassment Spectrum” chart.

6. Estelle Freedman’s book Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation, which includes a chapter about street harassment from around 1880-1920.

7. The Fight Harassment 101 (FH101) workshop curriculum – It allows you to host your own workshop about harassment and the use of self-defense.

8. The Don’t Harass Me, Bro and Design Action Collective campaigns. You can order stickers form the first group or download them from the second and then post them around your town to bring attention to street harassment.

9. Hollaback!’s updated smartphone app that allows people in New York City to “upload, in real time, information about where they experienced harassment on the street. It creates a map of pinned locations where harassment occurs, providing near-instant feedback to the city council’s and mayor’s offices. The app collects demographic data, too, to help officials better understand the details of where harassment occurs and who it happens to.”

10. Sex educator Laci Green’s video about street harassment.Funny and informative.

11. Miri’s article about why you shouldn’t tell that random woman on the street she’s hot (lots of great talking points).

12. Our social media volunteer Julie Mastrine’s infographic about street harassment.

13. A video interview from Quiet Lunch Magazine with artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, the person behind the amazing “Stop Telling Women to Smile” project. You can bring her art work to your community!

14. “Do Not Trust My Silence,” a powerful short film about street harassment in Afghanistan (English subtitles), directed by Afghan filmmaker Sahar Fetrat. She won the first prize in Italy’s “Universocorto Elba Film Festival” for her “extreme courage of reporting the Afghan women’s condition in the streets of Kabul and for the technique of shooting with a hidden camera.”

15 The Talk 2 Q radio show segment on street harassment that gives a lot of good talking points for addressing this issue with men, especially men of color.

16. A list of 5 resources for talking with boys about sexual violence, including street harassment.

17. Jarrah O’Neill’s senior thesis for Princeton University examining the policy frameworks that sustain street harassment.

18. The University of Southern California college students’ video about street harassment, which focuses on why it’s a serious problem.

19. Kelly Gallagher’s video “I AM THE MACE,” which is about identifying herself as a weapon against street harassment.

20. Virginia high school student Julia Romero’s song about street harassment.

21. Kara Lieff‘s video “Meet Us on the Subway” about Philadelphia’s International Anti-Street Harassment Week campaign. Check out Part 1 & Part 2.

22. A new billboard-based anti-street harassment campaign in Libya.

23. Qahera, a veiled superhero who addresses issues like street harassment in Egypt, created by Deena, an Egyptian artist.

24. The report “‘It’s Dangerous to be the First’: Security Barriers to Women’s Public Participation in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen,” which includes a portion about street harassment.

25. Hollaback! Philly‘s 24-page comic book, called Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue, written and drawn by Erin Filson (one of the current leaders of HollabackPHILLY, along with Rochelle Keyhan and Anna Kegler) and features characters who deal with street harassment.

26. Alyson Macdonald’s Internet game that allows people to see what life is like for many women when they walk outside.

27. Amy West’s video that provides viewers with “a two minute glimpse of something that happens literally every day. I hope this inspires open dialogue about the culturally accepted ways women are treated and the real consequences of those actions.”

28. SSH’s toolkit Know Your Rights: Street Harassment and the Law

29. A list of companies whose products or ads support street harassment – find out how you can take action to stop them & suggest your own campaigns.

30. My new book 50 Stories about Stopping Street Harassers, easy to read, accessible, and empowering.

DONATE — All donations are being matched through the end of 2013!

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New Report about Women in Afghanistan

December 28, 2013 By HKearl

Via UN Women:

“Like a Bird with Broken Wings”: new report from Afghanistan. UN Women Report chronicles stories of violence suffered by Afghan women through the decades of conflict. Harrowing tales of sexual violence during the years of conflict are a grim reminder of the suffering that Afghan women have experienced. As one woman puts it: “We have all suffered.” The testimonies contained in the report cover the timespan between 1978, when Soviet Union tanks rolled into Afghanistan, up until 2008. The reporting itself took place between December 2007 and June 2008 in seven provinces: Kabul, Kandahar, Jowzjan, Balkh, Bamyan, Daikundi and Herat.”

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India: New PSA on Leering

December 23, 2013 By HKearl

This new PSA from Whistling Woods International, a film school in India, forces men to consider how creeping and inappropriate their leering is. No one is entitled to another person’s body!

Buzzfeed reports, “The ad was released exactly one year after a horrific gang-rape in New Delhi started a nation-wide conversation about women’s safety in India.”

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