Reflecting on the number of people and organizations that worked hard to address and end street harassment is inspiring.  This end-of-year list is longer than last year’s list, and that’s a very good thing. Given the length, it’s divided into four posts. Post 1: Significant successes overall and 8 SSH successes. Post 2: New anti-street [...]

Reflecting on the number of people and organizations that worked hard to address and end street harassment is inspiring.  This end-of-year list is longer than last year’s list, and that’s a very good thing. Given the length, it’s divided into four posts. Post 1: Significant successes overall and 8 SSH successes. Post 2: New anti-street [...]

Reflecting on the number of people and organizations that worked hard to address and end street harassment is inspiring.  This end-of-year list is longer than last year’s list, and that’s a very good thing. Given the length, it’s divided into four posts. Post 1: significant successes overall and 8 SSH successes. Post 2 (this one): [...]

Reflecting on the number of people and organizations that worked hard to address and end street harassment is inspiring.  This end-of-year list is longer than last year’s list, and that’s a very good thing. Given the length, it’s divided into four posts. Post 1 (this one): significant successes overall (e.g. new laws or awards to [...]

So an update on the whole Planet Fitness harassment incident in Illinois—but first the recap: On Dec. 4, I was a first time guest of the Elmwood Park, IL Planet Fitness where I became the victim of sexual harassment! My photo was taken by a pervert, now identified as Peter Demopoulos of Elmwood Park, with [...]

In Yemen more than 90 percent of women experience street harassment. Last year Ghaidaa Al Absi launched The Safe Streets campaign to address the problem. She created a website, using Ushahidi, to track street harassment in Yemen and recently she hosted an exhibition of local artists’ work on the topic. I’ll post an interview with [...]

Image via Jezebel Via CBS: “A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore [...]