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USA: Claim Your Space! 26 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
By: Molly Redding, San Francisco, CA, USA, SSH Correspondent By now you have probably heard of what happened to Caroline Criado-Perez a few weeks ago. If you haven’t, I’ll break it down for you: She n...
Women’s Equality Day: Share Your Story 26 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
Today is Women’s Equality Day and while we’ve come a long way since women gained the right to vote in the USA in 1920, there is still so far to go since sexism and gender violence are very real issues...
USA: The Act of Cultural Imposition Through Street Harassment 25 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
By Nikoletta Gjoni, Maryland, USA, SSH Correspondent When I recently read about an American woman’s street harassment experiences in India and the negative impact they had on her, I couldn’t help but ...
Share your Street Harassment Story with CNN! 24 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Via CNN - “An iReport by University of Chicago student Michaela Cross, in which she says she experienced relentless sexual harassment during a study abroad trip in India last year, has sparked huge de...
USA: Interview with Burlesque Dancer Fancy Feast (Part 2) 24 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
By: Maggie Freleng, NYC, USA, SSH Correspondent I met Fancy Feast, a two and a half year burlesque dancer and sex educator, at Murray Hill’s annual Miss Lez Pageant, , an alternative beauty pageant fo...
“Not something you should say to women.” 24 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
Yesterday as I was walking home, I stopped at a corner, and a man came up and said something to me. I had my earbuds in and I live in a big city where sometimes folks ask directions on my street, so I...
USA: Interview with Burlesque Dancer Fancy Feast (Part 1) 23 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
By: Maggie Freleng, NYC, USA, SSH Correspondent Sunday night at Murray Hill’s annual Miss Lez Pageant, an alternative beauty pageant for queer womyn, something caught my attention. It wasn’t the conte...
“These guys are bullies” 22 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
So, I’m walking along 38th Street and a guy across on the other side of the street whistles at me as if he’s summoning a dog. You know, not the “va-va voom, baby” whistle (which is also offensive to m...
Harassed at the DMV 22 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
Today I was in line at the DMV and this guy stared at me for an hour! At first, I tried ignoring him, thinking maybe it was me. But after awhile, I realized he was staring at me. The guy behind me eve...
20th Anniversary of Anti-Harassment Book! 22 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
This is an excerpt of an interview I conducted with Marty Langelan for Fem2pt0. Read the full interview on their website. I spent years feeling annoyed, angry, and scared by gender-based street harass...
