Street Harassment
A New Street Harassment Report, USES FOR BOYS, and our Upcoming Twitter Chat
EXCERPT: “The sun is on my face and I’m thinking about nothing at all. About half a block past the school I hear a knocking. A rhythmic tapping and I look at the building I’m passing and then into the street where the cars are rushing by. I look all around and the tapping continues […]
Stop Street Harassment Week (March 30th – April 5th, 2014)
Last year, I wrote a very controversial post regarding something that the actor Matt Smith said about the actress Jennifer Lawrence at Comic Con. My basic premise was that I felt that his actions seemed similar to me to street harassment. In some ways, today, I would say they were possibly more like sexual harassment […]
Teen Issues: Street Harassment (guest post by Pauline Holdsworth)
Street harassment isn’t how we envision teenagers learning about themselves. We don’t name it as a form of education or discuss its consequences or argue over its curriculum – and in leaving out the lived experiences teenagers have with harassment in public spaces from our conversations, we’re leaving glaring gaps in what they’re being taught. […]
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