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Weekly Round Up: August 8, 2010

August 8, 2010 By HKearl

Story Submissions Recap:

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

Stop Street Harassment Blog: There were 5 stories from contributors in Illinois, Spain, Texas, India, and Mississippi.
HollaBack Chicago: 2 new stories
HollaBack DC!: 4 new stories
HollaBack NYC: 4 new stories
HollaBack UK: 4 new stories

In the News, On the Blogs:

New York Times, “Fighting for Safe Passage on Indian Streets” (and visit the author’s blog to read more about what she learned while researching this story)
Examiner, “Another upskirting incident reported in San Antonio grocery stores“
Indian Express, “Battles Lines“
The New Nation, “Opinion: Facing the Curse of Eve Teasing“
The Times of India, “Women unsafe in Romeo city“
Jezebel, “How Indian Women Fight Harassment“
Racialicious, “Hey Baby: Link Round-Up and Open Thread“
Cairo Guide, “Five Ways to Deal with Street Harassment”

Announcements:

Vote for HollaBack DC! in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge
Vote for HollaBack NYC in the Paperless Choice Digital Fundraising Challenge
Call for Artists: Women and Mobility in the City Exhibition (via Jagori)
RightRides is looking for volunteers in NYC
The book Stop Street Harassment is out Aug. 30. Pre-order it today!

10 Street Harassment Tweets from the Week:

adamfishpoet If you suffer #streetharassment, could you tweet giving location, and then tweeters who follow you could mass-report it?
hollabackdc reader at last nite’s event said, “when i read about street harassment, it’s not a big deal. but when it happens to you, it’s paralyzing.”
ABookishBeemer Nothing feels better than standing up to bullies. #streetharassment #feminism
ZoeBW I need to be able to feel safe walking down the street in broad daylight. #streetharassment #DC
MarianneDiNaps Bus driver watched me flip off guy harassing me, then lectured me on how “pretty girls need to learn to take a compliment” #streetharassment
CatCall Men: 99% of the time I make eye contact…I am just letting you know that I will be able to assist in making the police sketch.
IamHazelMay Creepy guys catcall me. Don’t care. Creepy guys catcall my daughter. Never knew I could snarl and go all ninja so fast. Yata!
CTrouper: @iHollaback Lovely new little online London #hollaback site http://bit.ly/9M1EgA #hollaBIKE
Snufkin Is it National Street Harassment week? Because I’ve had 2 creepy incidents in 3 days. It’s like being in Reno on North VA St.
hollabackdc Because street harassment is underacknowledged, many ppl think it’s okay. Help stop this with your vote: http://pep.si/c39T2R

Resource of the Week:

The GULABI Association, which supports the Gulabi Gang

Weekly Round Up: July 25, 2010

July 25, 2010 By HKearl

Story Submissions Recap:

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

Stop Street Harassment Blog: There were 7 stories from contributors in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (x2); London; Virginia; South Africa; and two from unspecified locations.
HollaBack Chicago: 1 new story
HollaBack DC!: 11 new stories
HollaBack NYC: 6 new stories, plus a recording of a woman confronting her harassers

In the News, On the Blogs:

Infoshop News, “An Appropriate Response to Street Harassment“
Young Feminist Wire, “Delhi Most Unsafe for Women” (video)
The Jakarta Post, “Women Face Harassment Every Day” (Indonesia)
The London Anti-Street Harassment (LASH) Campaign was featured on “A Programme From Vanessa Feltz” (BBC)
John Tesh, “You Can Combat Street Harassment“
The Independent, “Harriet Walker:Hassled Just Because I Ride a Bike“
Feministing Community, “NYC Mutes, Ignores Sex-Crime Prevention Services“
Women’s Learning Partnership, “No More Silence: Taking a Stand on Sexual Harassment“
Where Is Your Line, “‘Hey Baby’ Could Be a Strong Starting Point“

10 Street Harassment Tweets from the Week:

SpringDoes I’m always astounded by how much less street harassment I experience when walking with a man.
femmeniste “Wow, girl. You are so sexy!”-guy on bike. Can a lady get to work in peace? #StreetHarassment #NYC #RideBy
GIRLEMPOWER: @iHollaback When I was 8 my grandma blamed ME for a teenage boys sexual harassment!
NoWealthButLife “Hey, sexy” from strange man on street= opposite of sexy. Why is this hard for good guys to understand? http://bit.ly/ccFqjl
lashcampaign A film crew making a documentary about activism will be following @vicky_simister around next week
krisellelaran Boys: If a girl doesn’t respond to your catcall, calling her “fat” won’t make her swoon. It will make her punch you in the mouth
CatCall A CHILD riding his bike on the sidewalk says, “Hello beautiful” as he nearly crashes into me. “Learning catcalls young, eh?” A CHILD!
StopStHarassmnt #streetharassment starts early. out of 811 women, 87% said they’d faced it by age 19, 66% by age 15, & 22% by age 12. #outrageous
BLANK_NOISE what in the past stopped you from reacting to street sexual harassment? #eveteasing
iHollaback Street harassment teaches us to be silent. We just refuse to listen.

Resource of the Week:

Humorous video “Eve Teasing is Injurious to Health”

Weekly Round Up: June 13, 2010

June 13, 2010 By HKearl

Weekly Round Up is back by popular demand.

Story Submissions Recap:

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

Stop Street Harassment Blog: A woman in New Jersey is harassed in person and through her phone, a woman living in Belize shares how common street harassment occurs there, awoman in Salem, Massachusetts, observes high school boys harassing a high school girl and decides to report them, a woman in Gent, Belgium, says she gets sick with fear when men harass her, a woman in Washington, DC. tells a metro harasser to please leave her alone, a woman in Hendersonville, TN, recalls how many men threw objects from their cars at her and other woman walking down the street, and a woman in Toronto is stalked by a man for 45 minutes as she shops.
Hollaback Chicago: 1 new story this week
Hollaback DC!: 12 new stories this week
Hollaback London: 4 new stories this week
Hollaback NYC: 3 new stories this week, plus Justine’s video “Why I Hollaback”
Hollaback Toronto: 1 new story this week
Other: A woman in Nepal writes about street harassment on Booksie, there’s a Livejournal entry called “Street Harassment and Redneck Chivalry,” and anti-street harassment song! By “eating dictionaries”

In the News:

June 13 is “Eve Teasing Protection Day“
In Central Jakarta, India, there are now sex segregated bus lines because of harassment
Crime Prevention 101 online radio show about street harassment (listen to it here)
“Black Women X The Streets X Harassment” on Racialicious
AOL Lemondrop article “How to Deal with Cat-Callers, Leer-ers, and Other Street Harassers“
Three men raped a homeless woman who was waiting for a bus in NYC
A Seattle, Washington, cis man was charged with a hate crime following the assault of a transwoman
Hey Baby video game is covered by: NY Times, NPR, Ms Magazine Blog, Feministe, and WPIX (w/video)

Announcements:

Welcome Hollaback Hong Kong and Hollaback London!
Three things you can do to help HollaBack and it programs

Resource of the Week:

The Welsh Government’s excellent video “One Step Too Far” and the companion website.

Weekly Round Up Jan. 10, 2010

January 10, 2010 By HKearl

Now that I’m done writing my book, I’m back to doing a weekly round up blog post on Sundays. This is my first edition since August, welcome!

Stories:

Share your street harassment story today and help raise awareness about the problem. Include your location and it will be added to the Street Harassment Map.

On this blog, a woman in Manchester, UK, tells about a time a man harassed her and a friend on the bus and then the man slapped her behind. A woman in New York City says that “dressing professionally” doesn’t stop men from harassing her. Another woman tells how a man stalked her at a bookstore in Norristown, PA.
On HollaBack DC! a woman shares how a man harassed her when she was eating a salad at a restaurant and another woman shares how her new response to harassers worked out.

In the News:

A man who masturbated in a Starbucks in Chicago while staring at women patrons was charged with indecent exposure.
A man in Portland was arrested after he gave unwanted haircuts to fellow female bus riders.
A draft anti-sexual harassment law was introduced in Egypt this week.
An Egyptian woman writes an opinion piece about how being veiled doesn’t prevent men from groping women.
Learn how groping happens, from the Washington City Paper.

Announcements:

Want an easy way to report harassers from your phone or want to receive a report showing all the places harassment has recently occurred? Then vote for HollaBack 2.0! This is a proposed project by HollaBack NYC and RightRides and they’re in the second round of a competition for funding to make this a reality.
After more than two months, I updated my HarassMap with the stories people have submitted to my blog. Check out the map to see all the places where street harassment is occurring.

Events:

Eight weeks of self defense classes through Defend Yourself begin Jan 26. Learn more, sign up.

Resource of the Week:

A Question of Law: Massachusetts School of Law professors discuss street harassment

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