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Digest of street harassment stories, news, announcements & tweets: September 9, 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:

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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:

* Eliminating the Impossible, “Street Harassment 102: When You’re Blind and a Woman

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

* International Business & Law, “Brussels’ Offensive-Language Fines Highlight Widespread Sexual Harassment

* Think Progress, “Judge To Woman Sexually Assaulted By Cop: ‘When You Blame Others, You Give Up Your Power To Change’”

* The Flick, “I Ain’t No Hollaback Girl” | The Flick, “Why I Shout At Street Harassers

* The Raw Story, “It’s Really Time for the Harassment to End

* South Dakota Public Broadcasting, “Street harassment affects lives of women and girls

* Fair Observer, “Natasha Smith: Is This Egypt?”

* ArgusLeader.com, “Native women: Street harassment common

* Art in Praxis, “Shift Happens: Street Harassment and Cultural Organizing

* The Thang Blog, “Street harassment and being treated like a lady

* Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m Indie and You’re Punk, “This is still what a feminist looks like

* Scotsman.com, “Campaign aims to stop harassment in street

* UnWinona, “I debated whether or not to share this story;” Jezebel, “Stranger on a Train: ‘I Would Fucking Kill You Bitch’”

* Memoirs of an Egyptian, “On sexual harassment: Dear men, you don’t know too much

* Hanna Brooks Olsen, ““The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”

* Jezebel, “Don’t You Dare Ask Me Why I Look Mad

* Khaleej Times, “Teaching women to
stand up for rights

Announcements:

New:

* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.

* There’s a new anti-harassment campaign in Mumbai, India, called Chal Hatt Tharki.

* Hollaback launched 7 new sites

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.

* 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

15 Tweets from the Week:

1. @alisonturkos Nothing like being harassed on your way to brunch! #streetharassment

2. @Morgane_R I think most ppl would be surprised to know that I experienced more #streetharassment in the states than abroad in costa rica. #fem2

3. @monaeltahawy #Egypt is becoming synonymous with street sexual harassment and assault – it’s a national shame! http://wapo.st/PbSnSR #EndSH

4.  @lesellele #Streetharassment is not about compliments but about sexualized aggression and reminding a woman of her “place”

5. @iHollaback From our twitter feed, “if you hadn’t left the kitchen, there wouldn’t be any “victims” of #streetharassment.” The work continues, it seems.

6. @SirJoshBennett Thinking about street harassment. About what role a man’s voice can have in helping to stop that sort of violence.

7. @amyuncorked @theflickgirls got bum groped when jogging, turned &shouted FUCK OFF then spent rest of jog worrying that had offended others #why #mental

8. @sallyzohney If u know any anti harassment initiative in Egypt plz link me/share their info, I’m compiling for a big research. thnx #EndSH

9. @Karnythia On Street Harassment, Victim Blaming & Life in My Skin #streetharassment #endSH

10. @Morgane_R Yet another day of #streetharassment while out walking our dog, Joplin. One of the things I hate about our move back to #NYC. #fem2

11. @S_Takoza @hkearl Mariam Khaled “7 years” from the 2nd protest against sexual harassment in #minia #EndSH https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=194828347315746&set=a.192331694232078.47809.191475237651057&type=1&relevant_count=1 … :)

12.  @thetrudz There goes a Black man justifying street harassment. File this under “all the goddamn time.” But cop harassment of you is wrong, right? FOH

13. @sarcastathon For those of you who think it’s just me who suffers from street harassment or that I’m exaggerating: go read @theflickgirls‘ timeline.

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

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

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