This may be very, very triggering for some people so if you get triggered by street harassment I would suggest you don’t read this. One time I was walking down the street in a summer dress to get some bread and happened to be smiling – I remember a man in a car started yelling [...]

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Jake Winn, a Peace Corps volunteer and a youth development facilitator in northern Azerbaijan, on the Russian and Georgian borders. He is also a member of Peace Corps Azerbaijan’s WID/GAD (Women in Development/Gender and Development) executive committee. He said, “Inspired by your ‘Shit Men Say to Men [...]

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I know a lot of Stop Street Harassment’s readers are on the American east coast (and so am I), so if you’re like me and are stuck in doors, waiting to see what will happen and you have some extra time on your hands, here are some ideas for what you can do. 1. Watch [...]

As a young woman, sexual harasment is something I’ve been experiencing since I was very young. Most girls experience it around the age they hit puberty, which is mostly around the age of 12/13 years old. Well, for me, I hit puberty at a very young age, my breasts started to grow and my hips [...]

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Quick story via AP about street harassment activism and resistance to it in Egypt yesterday: “CAIRO (AP) — A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year’s Eid al-Adha, Islam’s biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked [...]