A few weeks ago, when I launched the “Companies that Trivialize Street Harassment” webpage, SSH community member @DaniParadis alerted me to the Skirt Chaser 5k, where women begin the race before men and the tagline is “Chase. Catch. Party.”  She and I both felt the “chase and catch” language and name sounded creepy and predatory [...]

I’m a 14 year old female. Summer is around the corner and the weather is perfect, I’m already out and about riding my bike, taking my dog for walk’s and hanging out with friends outdoors. But this is the first time ever in my life where I’ve felt fear and intimidation at the thought of [...]

A few weeks ago, Sara Alcid, a Washington, D.C. resident was at the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in DC where she discovered that BareMinerals by Bare Escentuals enlisted a group of fraternity brothers to hold up inappropriate and sexist signs saying things like, “You Look Beautiful All Sweaty,” “Hello Gorgeous.” Sara launched a successful Change.org [...]

Now, anybody who has ever been to Italy knows that there are people on every corner of any tourist destination attempting to sell you a variety of useless baubles, knickknacks and designer knockoffs. Despite however many times you tell them you aren’t interested in buying a bracelet or a “prada” bag they’ll be up in [...]

You walked up to me as I was waiting at the bus stop and pointed at my groceries and asked, “Can I use some lotion?” I said “No,” then, “Please give me some space” and held my hand up when you got too close. You stepped 5 or 6 feet back, and then spent the [...]

By: Adriana Pérez-Rodríguez, SSH Correspondent When I talk to female friends about street harassment I can tell most of them feel something is wrong with it, they realise that we should not put up with such behaviour. Yet, when it comes to reacting and confronting harassers, many of them don’t know where to start from. [...]

I was leaving work and going to catch a bus home, when I walked through the park and some sketchy man pointed at me and said, “I want to talk to you!” I was talking to a friend on the phone at the time, and said to the man, “I don’t want to talk to [...]