Stories:

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• 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”