Learning Self Defense in Egypt
The BBC reports that the attendance of Egyptian girls and women in martial arts training classes is on the rise. “Instructor Redo Fathy says it is now incumbent on every woman to protect herself from...
View ArticleEgyptian Women Blog
Another post about Egypt! This time about a women-only audio blogging station where women can talk about street harassment. Via Al Arabiya News Channel: “A women-only audio blogging station has become...
View ArticleT Groping in Boston Leads to Arrest
Transit police in Boston, MA, are working with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) to address low level sexual harassment on public transportation (ie street harassment) and Gina Scaramella,...
View ArticleBookstore Masturbator
I was reading an atlas at the bookstore and as there was only a bench (no tables/chairs) i was sitting there, bending down over it to read it. I noticed a funny rattling noise, ignored it, noticed it...
View ArticleHollaBack Shout Outs
Shout Outs to a few of my street harassment activist allies & an announcement about the upcoming launch of a new HollaBack DC blog: Brittany & Hilary of HollaBack Boston and HollaBackTalk. For...
View ArticleWoman Killed in Midtown by Street Harassers
Yesterday evening in Midtown Manhattan, two pedestrian women were hit by two men in a Gristede’s (supermarket chain) van as the women were heading home from their jobs at Israel Berger Associates, an...
View ArticleUpdate on Midtown Harassment Tragedy
The NY Daily News has photos and more information about the two women who were hit by a street harasser in New York on Friday. Sadly/infuriatingly one of the women died and the other woman, thankfully,...
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