Resources Archives | Page 86 of 88 | Stop Street Harassment

Queering sexual violence – call for submissions

February 25, 2010 By HKearl

“Queering Sexual Violence seeks 20- 25 LGBTQ writers who are interested in submitting pieces that confront the current state of our anti- sexual violence climate. Part memoir/ part criticism/ part call to action, this anthology seeks to address the limitations of a society that is not only unequipped to deal with rape culture but also unable to look at it without the lens of heterosexual privilege and through the interests of a gender binary system. The anthology seeks to destroy the image of the “perfect survivor” and motivate the anti-sexual violence community to embrace a more radical perspective in order to foster sustainable change….

Please send submissions and/ or questions to queeringsexualviolence@gmail.com by March 31, 2010. Please also repost and circulate widely.”

Weekly Round Up Feb. 7, 2010

February 7, 2010 By HKearl

Stories:

I accept street harassment submissions from anywhere in the world.
Share your story!

On this blog, a woman in NYC tells about a sexually explicit comment made to her on her walk home, a woman in an unspecified location tells how a man tried to drag her along with him and his friends, and another woman in Virginia had a man make inappropriate comments to her and then hurl insults at her on her way to work.
On HollaBack DC! a woman remembers how a man spit in her face as she crossed Key Bridge a few years ago and another talks about how she passed by a man who flashed her on the street.
On the blog Freedom Fighter Alicia writes about a harassment experience in Washington, DC ,on the metro.
On HollaBack NYC, a woman successfully told a man who was rubbing up on her on the subway to stop, another woman was masturbated on by a man during her subway ride, and another woman was harassed on the street and then blamed for it by a police officer to whom she reported it.

In the News:

Women and girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, talk about harassment while riding and waiting for buses.
A man groped a woman during a Disneyland ride and she filed a report.
The New York Times covers subway muggings, harassment, and assault and cites New Yorkers for Safe Transit.
Learn how to react to guys who groper on Jezebel.
Rachel Simmons discusses whether or not girls see street harassment as a badge of honor or a battle scar.
Equal Writes discusses anti-harassment ads on the New York subway system.
A writer on the Guide to Global Muslim Culture talks about women-only public transportation from the perspective of a woman who has used it in Egypt.
On Gender Across Borders a writer talks about being fed up with street harassment and the male gaze.
HollaBack NYC co-founder Emily May was interviewed for Global Sister.

Events:

Vagina Monologues fundraiser for a DC chapter of RightRides on Feb. 13 and 14.

Resource of the Week:

Global Action Project’s video “Crossed Lines”

Hey baby, baby/Whatcha want, you’re stalking me

February 1, 2010 By HKearl

Today I came across an anti-street harassment song called “Cat Calling” by The Dollyrots. Thoughts?

“No! No!
No! No!
No! No!
No! No!

Hey baby, baby
Whatcha want, you’re calling me
Dumb standing around the lunch truck so greedily

Hey baby, baby
Just another dog I see
Rolling in the dirt you’re barking up the wrong tree

So maybe you’re crazy
Never get a bone
Ooh you’re just too much man for me
Yeah maybe you’re crazy

Never catch me
You can’t make me

Had enough
I’ve had enough

Cat cat calling and I just don’t care
Cat cat calling so I’m out of here

No! No! Never gonna hear you
No! No! Never to be near you
Never to be near you

Hey baby, baby
Whatcha want, you’re stalking me
Bang bang your hammer
Caveman sensibilities

Hey baby, baby
Acting out a fantasy
I’ll get you so bad you’re crying for my sympathy”

Mapping Street Harassment

January 5, 2010 By HKearl

I turned in my book on street harassment to my editor on Friday. Phewww! Now I have time to do blog and website maintenance I’ve neglected the last few months.

To start, today I updated my Street Harassment Map webpage with stories from the blog contributors who indicated their location. Check it out (and please have patience and refresh your browser if the red pushpins do not show up at first) and note how widespread this problem is. It’s not just something that happens in cities like New York City or Washington, DC (and even if it were, it would still be a horrible).

Want your story added to the map? You can anonymously submit it using an online form.

80-100% of women are street harassed

November 30, 2009 By HKearl

Various studies show that 80 to 100 percent of women have experienced street harassment. A significant percentage of women say this regularly happens to them on public transportation.

Summaries of three of 11 recent studies include:

A 2002 survey of Beijing, China, citizens showed that 70 percent had been subjected to a form of sexual harassment. Most people said it occurred on public transportation, including 58 percent who said it occurred on the bus.[i]

During the summer of 2003, members of the Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team in Chicago surveyed 168 neighborhood girls ages 13 to 19 about street harassment and interviewed 134 more in focus groups. They published their findings in a report titled “Hey Cutie, Can I Get Your Digits?” Of their respondents, 86 percent had been catcalled on the street, 36 percent said men harassed them daily, and 60 percent said they felt unsafe walking in their neighborhoods.[ii]

In Yemen, the Yemen Times conducted a survey on teasing and sexual harassment in Sana’a in 2009. Ninety percent of the 70 interviewees from Sana’a said they had been sexually harassed in public. Seventy-two percent of the women said they were called sexually-charged names while walking on the streets and 20 percent of this group said it happens on a regular basis. About 37 percent of the sample said they had experienced physical harassment. Being veiled did not seem to lessen the harassment.[iii]

We need many more studies to better track the extent of the problem of street harassment. The more we know, the more informed strategies we can use to address the root causes and work on prevention strategies.

[i] “Harassment rampant on public transportation,” Shanghi Star, 11 April 2002, http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0411/cn8-4.html (15 March 2009).

[ii] Amaya N. Roberson, “Anti-Street Harassment,” Off Our Backs, May-June 2005, page 48.

[iii] “Sexual harassment deters women from outdoor activities,” Yemen Times, 21 January 2009, http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1226&p=report&a=2 (15 March 2009).

« Previous Page