BACK UP! Archives | Stop Street Harassment

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 London talks about the constant harassment she receives by her home and another woman in Chicago talks about the high volume of harassment she experiences in her new neighborhood.
On HollaBack Toronto, a contributor tells how a man in a car pulled up next to the bus stop she was sitting at and started masturbating! He drove away when she took out her cell phone.
On Holla Back NYC, a contributor tells how a man said a sexually explicit comment to her in Macy’s in NYC.
Holla Back DC! had seven new contributor stories this week, ranging from stories about young harassers to getting grabbed on the street to inappropriate & sexually explicit comments on the metro.
Blank Noise Project is asking people to send in photos of the clothes they have been harassed in to help disprove the perception that it only happens when women wear certain clothes. They say, “write to us at blurtblanknoise @gmail dot com subject titled “i never ask for it””

In the News:

In NYC a woman was harassed and arrested by an allegedly misogynistic police officer on the subway.
Egypt is distributing books about sexual harassment to mosques to help educate and inform imams.

Upcoming Events:

July 8 (8 – 11:55 p.m.): SafeWalk Benefit by Friends of RightRides to help offset the operational costs of SafeWalk to provide safe, free walks to any destination in the northern Brooklyn area on Friday nights. Cost: $6-10 sliding scale. Location: Silent Barn, 915 Wyckoff, Brooklyn, NY. More info
July 10 (7 – 10 p.m.): BACK UP! concrete diaries documentary screening as part of Docs in Progress. Cost: $5 suggested donation. Location: George Washington University Media & Public Affairs Building, 805 21st Street NW, Auditorium B-07, Washington, DC. More info

Street Harassment Resource of the Week:

Joan Fayer’s article “Changes in Gender Use of Public Space in Puerto Rico,” in Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space, eds Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert (New Jersey: Hampton Press, Inc: 1996).

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWIVNFGuiA]
“Sidewalks, street crossings, corridors, and concrete are hostile territory for women and girls who experience verbal and physical assault from men on a daily basis.

This is the official trailer for the feature length documentary that explores how women deal with this daily violence. It will especially look at how women are fighting back and defining their own personal and public spaces.The documentary adds to a bustling dialogue on gender and body politics, as it delves into women’s rights to exist freely in society.

We just edited the first 30-minute version of the documentary and are in continual production. If you have experienced, witnessed, been involved in, and/or taken a stand against street harassment and have a perspective or story to share, PLEASE contact Nijla Mumin at Nijla1@gmail.com. Please also watch out for BACK UP! at a film festival or community forum near you!”

From AOL Video. My thanks to Dienna for the tip

Street Harassment Round Up – July 5

BACK UP! Street harassment video