Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week.
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In the News, on the Blogs:
* Gulf News, “Kuwait: Woman’s car smashed for ignoring admirer“
* New York Times, “Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers“
* Human Rights First, “Cairo Protests Persist as Clinton Criticizes Appalling Treatment of Women“
* Global Comment, “Evicted from Tahrir Square, a New Stage of Egyptian Protest Begins“
* Bloomberg, “Will Other Arab Women Follow Egyptian Sisters Into the Street?: The Ticker“
* Focus Taiwan, “Passengers urged to report sexual harassment on public buses“
* The Telegraph, “Sudden raids to tame teasers“
* Arab Times, “Sleuths nab Asian expat, seize 19.5 kg marijuana“
* Meme Burn, “Indian non-profit launches app to help fight sexual harassment“
* Huffington Post, “Violence Against Women: Keeping Up Our Resolve“
* Sonnet 87, “Street Harassment Will Always Get You Nowhere“
* Metro Boston, “Women Hollaback! at street harassment“
* The John Tesh Radio Show, “You Can Combat Street Harassment“
* In These Times, “Fighting Sexual Assault, One Tweet at a Time“
Announcements:
New:
* Read the ActionAid report Women and the city: Examining the gender impact of violence and urbanisation.
Reminders:
* The Adventures of Salwa campaign launched a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.
* In Bangalore, India, there is a new helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023
* Find 6 ideas for holiday gifts that promote safe public spaces.
* The 5th edition of the prestigious textbook Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology is now available. For this printing, they included a few pages about street harassment! (see #143)
* Students living in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, are encouraged to take a new street harassment survey. The survey is organized by Cymdeithas Y Merched Bangor Women’s Society.
* You can purchase the Stop Street Harassment book for 50% off right now!
20 Tweets from the Week:
1. allison_francis Lately I’ve realized the majority of men aren’t aware the majority of women experience street harassment. Blows my mind. It’s every day.
2. EmptyNestExpat I stayed home New Year’s Eve last year in #Istanbul because of the street harassment stories.Someone is taking action! tinyurl.com/c4ammfj
3. Caro130 Playing on phone as excuse to ignore sole fellow rider on this bus– asshole whispering “pretty” and making kissy noises. #streetharassment
4. BlackfeministUK Is anyone doing some thing for International Anti-Street Harassment week/day this spring in the UK? RT PLEASE
5. AmoAmmo #streetharassment RT @DawnHFoster: I just got sexually harrassed on Old Kent Rd by a man in a LEOPARD PRINT SLANKET. This is a new low.
6. Psypherize Soon the entire of #Egypt RT @randamali: The only place where I’m not scared of men is #Tahrir. #EndSH
7. chels7391 I hate when guys whistle or catcall at me, it’s desperate and just plain out rude!
8. sandychoi I know it’s rough, dudes in #Qatar, but driving up to a 7 mth pregnant woman on the sidewalk to catcall is a new low. HARAM, MUTHERF*CKER.
9. danielleprescod You can’t catcall me and ask me to help the homeless in the same breath
10. JessiDG RT @FarahSaafan: Men forming a cordon around women so no1 would harass us! Loud chants against Tantawi #Tahrir” streetharassment @HarassMap
11. nickol3465 One thing I hate is harassment your walking down the street then a person that u don’t even know starts to harass u (MAKES Me mad)
12. mernathomas Loud bang as the metro was taking off, women all screamed. Turned out just a sexual harasser banging on the window #weladKalb #endSH #Egypt
13. Hana_Zuhair Perverts, expect another #womenmarch soon. #EndSH
14. MahaElSherif Random strangers now feel inclined to condemn/stop harassment on the street #womensmarch #tahrir
15. EarthAngel1616 #Streetharassment is NOT OKAY. It makes people feel violated and unsafe in public spaces.
16. CorinneBA_Someone is following me! scary enough. he even have the guts to sit next to me in the bus, what should i do #endSH #nasawiya #lebanon
17. mernathomas No escape from sexual harassment, nt even @home. A harasser calls ur phone once “by mistake”,then continues calling night&day. #endSH #Egypt
18. clairesgould Note to middle-aged man at Tenley metro: don’t say hi to me like you know me, then wink. #ew #streetharassment
19. adventurecub Guy yelled after me “You’re a brainwashed moron!” because I ignored his catcall. I kindly doubled back showered him with obscenities.
20. jennpozner Strangers+street harassment=no consent. What context wld b OK? RT @RenZephyr @MsNicoleClark @ihollaback that depends on context &consent,no?
