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Digest of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: September 22, 2012

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

Stop Street Harassment Blog

HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Ebony, “STREET HARASSMENT: Every Woman’s War“

* All Africa, “Egypt: Movement Urges Interior Ministry to Put an End to Sexual Harassment“

* The Jerusalem Post, “Egyptian women battle harassment on the streets“

* The New Zealand Herald, “Catcalling – it’s not a compliment“

* World Pluse, “Street Harassment: How it looks like in Afghanistan“

* Huffington Post, “Sexual Harassment: IPhone App ‘Not Your Baby’ Suggests Responses“

* Jezebel, “Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl“

* Shiny Shiny TV, “Not Your Baby street harassment app tells you how to respond to scumbags“

* Yale Daily News, “THURSTON: How studying abroad made me a feminist“

* Al-Akhbar, “The Widespread Plague of Sexual Harassment in Egypt“

* Relando Thompkins, “Aspiring Humanitarian Joins Efforts to End Street Harassment“

* Video: “Sexual abuse in Egypt is rampant, victims say – An Al-Monitor exclusive“

* Collective Action for Safe Spaces, “On hitting on that cute girl at the coffee shop“

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Announcements:

New:

* Stop Street Harassment welcomes and announces its new board of directors!

* New hotline to report sexual harassment cases – News – Aswat Masriya #Egypt #EndSH

Reminders:

* Harlow Project Seeking Participants For Street Harassment Web Video Series

* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment

* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.

* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.

* Activists in South Africa launched a website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

10 Tweets from the Week:

1. @_MissBre Street harassment scares me. I don’t even defend myself because I have no idea where his head is.

2. @tinydancer06 It’s like the men of Chicago have never seen legs or cleavage before. #doubletakes #catcalls #wtf

3. @psichedelico insert tweet about how much i hate rape culture and street harassment.

4. @timmesa It is getting increasingly irritating to walk by a building with construction workers every day to get to work. #catcalls #Iamalmost40

5. @katyadodds I swear I get whistled an honked at more in Hawaii than I ever have in my life #catcalls #creepers

6. @maps4aid CCTVs to be installed, Helplines numbers to be posted to check Street Harassment in Barasat, West Bengal. http://bit.ly/P2MqVW #Win

7. @ashaberry You know what’s never cool? Street harassment. #funwithcreepers #waitfunisnottherightword

8. @FatFemPinUp Street harassment can be truly traumatic for women & the WORST thing you can do as a friend/lover/significant other is deny them validation

9. @joannajpost #Egypt anti street harassment initiative is awesome – let’s create something similar for #Israel http://harassmap.org

10.  @MeLaMachinko The age old ‘wear your headphones even if u aren’t listening to music to ignore street harassment” trick… tried & true!

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Digest of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: September 16, 2012

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Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

Stop Street Harassment Blog

HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* The F Word Blog, “Spanish feminist subjected to harassment campaign“

* Lesoir.be, “Bruxelles punit les sexistes“

* Le Nouvel Observateur, “Harcèlement de rue : les femmes racontent le machisme“

* Women’s Media Center, “Native Americans Speak Out About Street Harassment“

* Torontoist, “New Mobile App “Not Your Baby” Calls Out Sexual Harassment“

* The Guilfordian, “Sexual harassment in Egypt escalates“

* LAist, “Women Share Their Stories Of Sexual Harassment (And Worse) On Public Transportation”

* XO Jane, “I Think We Should Have a Collective Response To Strangers Who Tell Us To Smile”

* Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, “Baghdad Neighborhood Imposes Strict Dress Code On Women“

* Bikyamasr, “Sexual harassment awaits Egyptian girls outside schools“

* Washington Post, “In Egypt, a backlash against harassment“

* Lydia, “TAKE BACK THE DAY: ON BRINGING AN END TO STREET HARASSMENT“

* A Thrift Store, “Midge and I have a Chat About a Streetcar Named Anger“

* Cardboard Sunshine, ““The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.””

* SocialistAlternative.org, “Fighting back against street harassment“

* xoJane, “Where’s Your Line Between Flirting and Harassment?“

* DelawareOnline.com, “Officials: Man exposed himself at beach restrooms“

* Alternet.org, “Porn Star Stoya Speaks Out on Street Harassment“; Jezebel, “I’m a Porn Star, and if You Harass Me I Will Punch You in the Balls“

* NBCNews.com, “Suspect arrested in rape of 73-year-old birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park“

* Guardian, “Central Park rape sparks debate about social media making women safer”

* College Gloss, “Combating Street Harassment: What You Should Know“

* Sparkwood & 21, “The Story of My Sexual Assault on Muni in San Francisco“

Announcements:

New:

* Harlow Project Seeking Participants For Street Harassment Web Video Series

* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment

* In San Francisco, there is a new arts-based anti-street harassment initiative called Little Bird SF

* Male allies won prestigious awards for their anti-street harassment initiatives this spring.

* Hollaback Istanbul released a new anti-harassment video featuring male allies

* In Washington, DC, Collective Action for Safe Spaces and Voices of Men acted out an anti-harassment skit on the Metro. You can do this in your city too!

* Talalo, an Afghan graffiti band, fights street harassment by putting messages on street walls.

* Denice Frohman, Poet, performs “Dear Straight People”


Reminders:

* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.

* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.

* Activists in South Africa launched a website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

10 Tweets from the Week:

1. @harassmap It is time this is escalated, we’re losing our lives to harassers, silence has never been more disgraceful. #endSH #Egypt #Enough

2. @alicexz I usually respond to sexual harassment on the street by 1.) INTENTLY TEXTING A NON-EXISTENT PERSON, or 2.) “No English!”

3.  @Hollaback_DSM Being a male ally isn’t about what you DON’T do (harass) but what you DO do: confront other men. Together we will end #streetharassment

4. @PennyRed Ah, New York street harassment, how I haven’t missed you #hollaback #alwaysabittooscaredtohollaback

5. @mortari If you’ve never been catcalled or followed, then yes, you are missing information which is relevant to discussion of street harassment.

6. @TheCariLand Why do guys feel it’s ok to catcall out a car window or honk at females?

7. ‏@TheFemaleWiz There’s a fine line between charming and creepy.On that note,there’s a place reserved in hell for dudes that catcall on ladies!

8. @AngryWriterGirl I’ve said it once, I’ll say it a million times more: Don’t believe in #streetharassment? Walk a few steps behind a woman on a sunny day.

9. @nd_kane @anaees Agreed, so not okay. There’s a whole campaign about Street Harassment online that’s worth a look: https://stopstreetharassment.org

10. @MarwaMfarid Who is ready to participate in an experience to document the fact that even Niqab wearing women are sexually harassed #EndSH #Egypt

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Snapshot of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: September 2, 2012

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Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

Stop Street Harassment Blog

HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Rapid City Journal, “Activist probes street harassment of Indian women“; ArgusLeader.com, “Native women: Street harassment common“

* Washington Post, “Dupont Circle bicycle groper committed a crime, not a misdemeanor“

* Yemen Times, “Police: Sexual harassment law needs re-wording“

* The Times of India, “Will they stop teasing us if we stop wearing jeans?“

* Femination, “Belgian Documentary on Street Harassment“

* The Independent, “Everyday Sexism: It isn’t restricted to adults – even young girls in school uniform share their experiences“

* Hindustan Times, “Eve teasers beat up pregnant woman“

* YouTube Video, “Sidewalk Sexual Harasser: You’re an A-Hole Ep. 3“

* Yorkshire Evening Post, “Express How to change the world… in your pyjamas“

Announcements:

Bowlmor ad, image via Equality Now

New:

* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.

Reminders:

* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @JasminePeterso6 FYI to the assholes in front of the bar: Hollering and catcalling at a woman out for a run at 2am is not sexy. It’s scary. #StreetHarassment

2. @neverthatblonde Ah, being told ‘I’d like to bang you bang you proper style’ is such a nice thing to have shouted at you on the way home #streetharassment

3. @MsJenko One day women will be able to walk down a street without being subjected to abuse,when that day will come I have no clue.. #streetharassment

4. @angiewrites #streetharassment RT @bretta75: Nothing quite as uncomfortable as walking down a street lined with construction guys having lunch… -_-

5. @laurevans311 Just got: “alright darlin’?” I ignored it the man started shouting: “oh I see, too good to talk to me are we princess?!” #streetharassment

6. @thekateblack “Halloween is over, honey.” “This is the blood from the last guy who told me that.” #streetharassment

7. @FeistyFeminist1 #streetharassment blows. Got harassed twice during my 10 minute walk down Pennsylvania Ave SE. Don’t fuck with me this week. #DC

8. @emilhop I think that if every male pictured his mother before #streetharassment , he probably wouldn’t do it.

9. @vanbakes I CANNOT take another minute of the #streetharassment in #Dublin.

10. @SurMadam I’m not on the auction block, stop picking apart my body. Not to mention, your grossness is a libido killer. #streetharassment

11. @ljoywilliams Calling out body parts or yelling out how you would like to sexual violate me IS #StreetHarassment

12. @queenkaye does ‘aye yo, sexy eyes, ‘ when covered fr head to toe walking on eastern pkwy in the dead of winter count? #streetharassment @ljoywilliams

13. @silverspeakers Just approached aggressively by man: “I would rock your world. You’re totally my type.” #streetharassment

14.@emilhop Hi, blond man on the 57 bus inbound at ~9am. I can see you looking at my chest. You’re not invisible. But you are scum. #streetharassment

15. @nualacabral Must read for anyone who has had their #RACE and #GENDER simultaneously called into question during #streetharassment: http://goo.gl/0aM0M

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Snapshot of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: August 26, 2012

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Egypt, via The Egyptian Chronicles

Happy Women’s Equality Day!

Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

Stop Street Harassment Blog

HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Guardian, “Let women stand up to harassment from squids on the street“

* Lesbilicious, “Street Harassment: the taboo is finally breaking“

* Pavadanada, “I had to put an end to this“

* Women’s Web, “What Are Their Thoughts?”

* Zaghaleel, “Third Day of Patrolling against Sexual Harassment“

* Egypt Independent, “Sexual harassment wave continues for third day“

* Week Woman, “My Hijab, My Body – A Muslim Feminist on Street Harassment in Argentina“

* Egyptian Chronicles, “#EndSH : The Eid beasts are back !!”

* Egypt Independent, “In photos: Sexual harassment continues in Eid“

* Prince of Petworth, “Props to the Cops: Arrest Made in Sexual Assaults near Dupont Circle“

* The Times of India, “Stalked, abused in 1 minute, 27 seconds“

Announcements:

New:

* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.

* Tomorrow there is an open mic in Cairo. Share your street harassment and sexual harassment stories.

Reminders:

* Tonight in DC is a benefit concert for Collective Action for Safe Spaces

* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @mzjudge People who encourage exercise should also advocate to stop street harassment. How do you expect folks to jog when they don’t feel safe?

2. @_jenniwithani I hate that street harassment can still ruin my night.

3. @umberg: @EverydaySexism street harassment count tonight: 11

4. @oh_so_random Street harassment is real in DC though. I’m bothered by the aggressive entitled behavior by many men I’ve encountered on the streets here

5. @mirabaz Incidents of street harassment while dressed freely: only 1 in 17 months, walking past a construction site

6. @jesssolomon A few blocks N of Howard U is full of zombies, and one just literally tried to grab me. #streetharassment #dc

7. @PennyRed ‘I’m here with my mum and little sisters and you’re yelling dirty, sexist things, it’s not ok.’ They seemed genuinely shocked and sorry.

8. @MaiE_89 Hamzawy: We need legislation that targets sexual harassment specifically. #Egypt #EndSH

9. @SafeSpacesDC Props to the Cops: Arrest Made in Sexual Assaults near # Dupont Circle http://bit.ly/TZPfK9 via @popville @DCPoliceDept #vaw #DC

10. @yesgawdhunty If you catcall me, I’ll give you mean look and call you a worthless sack of shit. You’ve been warned.

11. @erindwyer Get outta ur shitbox car #dirtypervs to catcall me so I can enjoy knocking you to the ground. And teaching you some manners. #skells

12. @toridriggers Dear construction guys at McDonalds, if you catcall at me I’m not even going to give you the light of day. #Thisiswhyyour single

13. @sallyzohney AlMasryAlYoum reports 134 harassment cases in police stations over 3 days eiid holidays. These r just the women who spoke up! #endsh

14.  @MaelleP_ #VisitEgypt but with a pepper spray. Sexual harassment during Eid in pictures http://bit.ly/MMqz7v #EndSH.

15. @NihalSaad: Patrolling started at the metro #endsh pic.twitter.com/NrjGjpHC

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Snapshot of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: August 19, 2012

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Via The Mary Sue Tumblr

Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.

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Street Harassment Stories:

Share your story! You can read street harassment stories on the Web at:

Stop Street Harassment Blog

HarassMap in Egypt

Bijoya in Bangladesh

Resist Harassment in Lebanon

Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine

Name and Shame in Pakistan

Safe Streets in Yemen

Street Harassment in South Africa

Many of the Hollaback sites

Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:

* Egypt Independent, “Movement plans patrols to counter sexual harassment during Eid“

* IBN Live, “Teenager kills self after eve-teasing“

* AFP, “Syria refugees battle heat, dust, sexual harassment“

* What While We Slept, “Sexism & Street Harassment in Brussels and Knoxville“

* Azerby Jake, “Stop Street Harassment!“

* From the Mind of Sister Storm, “Street Harassment 101“

* Meet Istanbul (Not Constantinople), “Street harassment before 8 a.m.“

* Bikyamasr, “Egypt women fearful of attacks as Eid holiday arrives“

* Egypt Independent, “The Sexual Harassment File: Coping mechanisms“

Announcements:

New:

* You can view the full anti-street harassment documentary “War Zone” online now.

* Next Sunday (Aug. 26) in DC is a benefit concert for Collective Action for Safe Spaces

* Young men from Balaken and Zaqatala, in northern Azerbaijan, produced a great video to try and put an end to street harassment

Reminders:

* Vote for Hollaback Philly’s transit ad project

* Activists in South Africa launched a new website about street harassment

* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!

* Help fund a new film about street harassment

* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.

* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA

* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.

* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023

* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @alysonneel @ibrahimep Sadly, as you probably know, street #harassment happens everywhere. But it is a huge problem in #Turkey

2. @aliciapees it’s cool how street harassment has dissuaded me from wearing shorts in public even when its 30 degrees celsius.

3. @lauraY_A This #Eid there are patrols to stop women being harassed in Cairo. The shitty thing is they are not enough. #EndSH #Egypt

4. @ayaelb Another #endSH grafitti in zamalek spotted. This time under bridge by coffee bean http://twitpic.com/aku9x4

5. @NihalSaad 2 rows one for protection and one for awareness. #endsh patrolling in eid in the metro.

6. @aliciasanchez corner of vermont and u street nw, man waves, blows kisses and makes kissy noises. #streetharassment

7. @MichaelaAngelaD 1 of the biggest stresses facing our girls is street harassment-walking to school can be like navigating a mental minefield #YesSheCan

8. @sallyzohney The beautifully brave @NihalSaad is organising anti harassment patrols during Eiid. Go help if ur in Cairo plz #endSH

9. @boodleoops @fynona @EverydaySexism #streetharassment is the reason it took me until I was 30 to have the confidence to go running on the streets.

10. The_MarySue Using #Batman to fight #streetharassment: http://tmblr.co/ZOO-nxRU0uWf #endSH

11. @PUREIDEOLOGY @m_kopas i’ve been catcalled more times than i can count, makes me feel pretty disgusting lmao

12. @MiaElFeky Would never have imagined so much feedback on the thing I wrote about sexual harassment. “I am mad as hell.” http://fb.me/1UCZPZYMn #EndSH

13. @FeministPrncess RT THIS QUESTION! What age did you first experience street harassment? If it’s lessened, what age did the decline begin? For me it’s 12/24.

14. @GrahamGemmell Men. Why catcall? It’s like announcing to the world “I’m not capable of intelligent conversation or subtlety and I’m so very lonely”

15. @natasha_journo writing an in-depth article on #SH in #Egypt, if anyone wld like to be involved please tweet or DM me #womensrights #EndSH #Egyptianwomen

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