A week in our shoes: CAMPUS HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES!

Dear Hollabackers –

Our campaign is underway, and we couldn’t be more excited! In the first three days we raised over $3000. To donate or to check it out, click here.  We need your support to make this dream a reality!

Emerald Lakes rocked out in support of our campaign to end campus harassment!

Permanent Wave hosted a benefit show on our behalf! Big thanks to the team at Permanent Wave, and the bands who played including Leda, Young Unknowns, Emerald Lakes, and Cindy Lou Gooden. We raised $225 towards our campaign to end campus harassment!

We went to the Ms. Foundation Gala! I was joined by our board members Yetta Kurland and Kathleen Adams.  It was such an honor to be there — as the Ms. Foundation was our first foundation funder! We are so grateful to them for believing in us from the beginning.

Veronica, Anna from Brussels, and I in the office

Our site leaders from Baltimore and Brussels were in town!  They are amazing, and doing such amazing work.  It was so awesome to meet them.

Keep on holla’ing back! And don’t forget to spread the word about our campaign to end campus harassment!

HOLLA and out –

Emily

Published on May 18, 2012 at 9:18 am

Join our Campaign: Margaret’s story about campus harassment

We are taking Hollaback! to the next level, take a minute to watch our campaign video and to donate here. We are in the first week of our campaign and have already raised $2,865 of our $25,000 goal! Help us to end harassment on college campuses! Donate today, every donation counts!

Published on May 17, 2012 at 10:29 am

Join our Campaign: Leah’s story of campus harassment

We are taking Hollaback! to the next level, take a minute to watch our campaign video and to donate here. Yesterday was the first day of our campaign and we already raised $1,570 of our $25,000 goal! Help us to end harassment on college campuses! Donate today, every donation counts!

Published on May 16, 2012 at 11:16 am

Why our campaign to end campus harassment matters

BY EMILY MAY

I grew up on a pretty steady diet of Sesame Street. I moved to New York City from Richmond when I was 18 years old — and as I was exiting my dorm some guy said “hey baby” to me. Assuming New York City was like grown-up Sesame Street, I said “hey” back. He responded, “I want to **** the **** out of you.” The harassment continued throughout my college education, and I figured it was my fault. I didn’t look “tough” enough, and if I was really a strong woman than it wouldn’t hurt so much. But it did.

We started Hollaback! in 2005 thinking that street harassment was an urban problem. Over the past seven years I’ve talked to thousands of college students, and they’ve shown me that street harassment happens all over college campuses. It doesn’t matter how big or small the campus is, or if it’s in a rural or urban area. Studies show that 51% of college men admit to harassing their female counterparts, which of course means the reality is much, much worse.

My sister is going to college next year, and from where I’m sitting enough is enough. In a 2005 study 57% of students said that they wanted an anonymous online reporting platform to address campus harassment. It was by far and away the #1 solution voted for by students. When I called the author of the report, she said that no one ever implemented the recommendation. NO ONE. Luckily, anonymous online reporting is what Hollaback! does best.

We’re taking Hollaback! to the next level, and we need your support. Take two minutes to watch our campaign video and donate here.

This is a long fight — but we’re in it to win it. And with your support, all the baby girls rolling around in strollers today will never have to experience campus harassment the way that we have.

Published on May 16, 2012 at 10:08 am

Why Healthy Masculinity?

Street harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against – and rarely, if ever, is it linked to masculinity. It’s time to make the connection between our experiences on the street with what society teaches boys about what it means to be a man. And it’s time to offer a positive alternative – healthy masculinity. Now, some of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations are coming together to launch the most comprehensive effort ever centered on centered on non-violent, emotionally healthy masculinity.

What is the Healthy Masculinity Action Project (HMAP)?

The Healthy Masculinity Action Project (HMAP) is a two-year national grassroots initiative to build a new generation of male leaders who will model non-violent, emotionally healthy masculinity and serve as positive change makers in society – helping to take their communities from awareness to action. Everyday men, women, and teens nationwide are all driving HMAP.

Who is behind HMAP?

Men Can Stop Rape, the project leader, is joined by HMAP’s organizing partners: the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Men Stopping Violence, Coach for America, Women of Color Network, and A CALL TO MEN.

A number of organizations are helping by promoting HMAP to their national networks. Hollaback! is among them.

We hope you will join us in this effort. Ultimately, it will take everyone for HMAP to be a success.

The Healthy Masculinity Summit will kick off HMAP this October. Watch for more information in upcoming weeks.

Published on May 15, 2012 at 5:21 pm

Any Filmmakers out there?

Published on 2012-05-18 19:05:04

Why our campaign to end campus harassment matters

Cross-posted from ihollaback.org, originally posted on May 16,2012 at 10:08 am.

BY EMILY MAY

I grew up on a pretty steady diet of Sesame Street. I moved to New York City from Richmond when I was 18 years old — and as I was exiting my dorm some guy said “hey baby” to me. Assuming New York City was like grown-up Sesame Street, I said “hey” back. He responded, “I want to **** the **** out of you.” The harassment continued throughout my college education, and I figured it was my fault. I didn’t look “tough” enough, and if I was really a strong woman than it wouldn’t hurt so much. But it did.

We started Hollaback! in 2005 thinking that street harassment was an urban problem. Over the past seven years I’ve talked to thousands of college students, and they’ve shown me that street harassment happens all over college campuses. It doesn’t matter how big or small the campus is, or if it’s in a rural or urban area. Studies show that 51% of college men admit to harassing their female counterparts, which of course means the reality is much, much worse.

My sister is going to college next year, and from where I’m sitting enough is enough. In a 2005 study 57% of students said that they wanted an anonymous online reporting platform to address campus harassment. It was by far and away the #1 solution voted for by students. When I called the author of the report, she said that no one ever implemented the recommendation. NO ONE. Luckily, anonymous online reporting is what Hollaback! does best.

We’re taking Hollaback! to the next level, and we need your support. Take two minutes to watch our campaign video and donate here.

This is a long fight — but we’re in it to win it. And with your support, all the baby girls rolling around in strollers today will never have to experience campus harassment the way that we have.

For more about the campaign and why it matters, stay tuned the next couple weeks for some anecdotal Youtube videos from brave anti-street harassment advocates! Here’s one to get you started.

Published on 2012-05-18 17:08:15

A mi amiga

En el camión un tipo le tocó los gluteos a mi amiga

Published on 2012-05-18 17:02:02

Short film: Turn Around

One stalking man is enough to cause fear in a woman. But how many women are needed to cause fear in a man? “Turn around” is a new short film about street harassment in the streets of Paris, France.

From the filmmaker Acim Vasic:

“It is the story of a creepy man who, on a quiet night on a Parisian street, starts following a lone woman. As he gets closer and closer, he notices that he himself is being followed – first by one woman, then two, then more and more women until it seems that an endless stream of women are pursuing him. For the first time he feels the fear of how it is to be hunted…

 

“Turn Around” is set in modern day Paris, France. It will be shot over two nights in several quiet streets and alleys of Paris. The genre of the film is a mix of noir, thriller and satire. There is no dialogue in the film, making it universally understandable. The sound design will focus on creating the atmosphere and enhancing the tense dramatic moments in the empty, windy streets, full of echoing high heels and a breathless, petrified man on the run.”

Sounds pretty awesome to us!

Want to help Vasic make his film? They are running a campaign on Indiegogo right now to raise the funds for the project — check it out!

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Published on 2012-05-18 14:11:33

Short film: Turn Around

One stalking man is enough to cause fear in a woman. But how many women are needed to cause fear in a man? “Turn around” is a new short film about street harassment in the streets of Paris, France.

From the filmmaker Acim Vasic:

“It is the story of a creepy man who, on a quiet night on a Parisian street, starts following a lone woman. As he gets closer and closer, he notices that he himself is being followed – first by one woman, then two, then more and more women until it seems that an endless stream of women are pursuing him. For the first time he feels the fear of how it is to be hunted…

 

“Turn Around” is set in modern day Paris, France. It will be shot over two nights in several quiet streets and alleys of Paris. The genre of the film is a mix of noir, thriller and satire. There is no dialogue in the film, making it universally understandable. The sound design will focus on creating the atmosphere and enhancing the tense dramatic moments in the empty, windy streets, full of echoing high heels and a breathless, petrified man on the run.”

Sounds pretty awesome to us!

Want to help Vasic make his film? They are running a campaign on Indiegogo right now to raise the funds for the project — check it out!

Share this

Published on 2012-05-18 14:11:33

Short film: Turn Around

One stalking man is enough to cause fear in a woman. But how many women are needed to cause fear in a man? “Turn around” is a new short film about street harassment in the streets of Paris, France.

From the filmmaker Acim Vasic:

“It is the story of a creepy man who, on a quiet night on a Parisian street, starts following a lone woman. As he gets closer and closer, he notices that he himself is being followed – first by one woman, then two, then more and more women until it seems that an endless stream of women are pursuing him. For the first time he feels the fear of how it is to be hunted…

 

“Turn Around” is set in modern day Paris, France. It will be shot over two nights in several quiet streets and alleys of Paris. The genre of the film is a mix of noir, thriller and satire. There is no dialogue in the film, making it universally understandable. The sound design will focus on creating the atmosphere and enhancing the tense dramatic moments in the empty, windy streets, full of echoing high heels and a breathless, petrified man on the run.”

Sounds pretty awesome to us!

Want to help Vasic make his film? They are running a campaign on Indiegogo right now to raise the funds for the project — check it out!

Share this

Published on 2012-05-18 14:11:33

A week in our shoes: CAMPUS HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES!

Dear Hollabackers –

Our campaign is underway, and we couldn’t be more excited! In the first three days we raised over $3000. To donate or to check it out, click here.  We need your support to make this dream a reality!

Emerald Lakes rocked out in support of our campaign to end campus harassment!

Permanent Wave hosted a benefit show on our behalf! Big thanks to the team at Permanent Wave, and the bands who played including Leda, Young Unknowns, Emerald Lakes, and Cindy Lou Gooden. We raised $225 towards our campaign to end campus harassment!

We went to the Ms. Foundation Gala! I was joined by our board members Yetta Kurland and Kathleen Adams.  It was such an honor to be there — as the Ms. Foundation was our first foundation funder! We are so grateful to them for believing in us from the beginning.

Veronica, Anna from Brussels, and I in the office

Our site leaders from Baltimore and Brussels were in town!  They are amazing, and doing such amazing work.  It was so awesome to meet them.

Keep on holla’ing back! And don’t forget to spread the word about our campaign to end campus harassment!

HOLLA and out –

Emily

Published on 2012-05-18 09:18:26

Anonymous's Story: Touched and followed

When I was in my early 20s and on my way to grad school, I was followed by a man on the subway platform.  I was dressed in sweats.  He followed me up the stairs to the street and touched my backside twice.  The first time it was so light I wasn’t even sure it happened.  The second time I threw his hand away and started crying hysterically.  I walked down the street crying and two men stopped me to ask if I was ok.  My harasser had been following me on the other side of the street.  The two men scared him away.  I was grateful to bump into them at that moment.

Published on 2012-05-18 01:49:31

Anonymous's Story: Mad

One day, my sister and I were walking and a guy was asking me for my number.  I said no and he started calling me names, just for a number.  I was mad.

Published on 2012-05-18 01:45:08

Sara's Story: "People were there around me; they didn't say anything"

A couple of months ago, I was walking home and just got out of the train station.  This guy behind me was calling me beautiful and describing my ass.  I kept walking.  People were there around me; they didn’t say anything.  I was freaked out.  This happened in Brooklyn, Sutter Avenue.

Published on 2012-05-18 01:43:48

Anonymous's Story: "A really creepy experience"

I used to work really late at night and sometimes I would travel home alone.  One night I was walking to the train from my job and a man began to follow me from my job right until I got in the turnstile of the train.  The only reason he didn’t continue was because he didn’t have a metric card to enter the train.  I was terrified and it was a really creepy experience.

Published on 2012-05-18 01:41:20

Anonymous's Story: "Honking to get my attention"

When I was younger, I used to talk back to harassers often.  I was told by one man if I did not want to be looked a I shouldn’t dress like a slut.  The summer I was 12, I saw men masturbating all over the city.  On two occasions a guy would be in a car, honking to get my attention to show me he was masturbating.

Published on 2012-05-17 22:42:18

Shawna-Kay's Story: "I keep going with my head held high"

When I go home every afternoon I pass by a barbershop, and when I pass this one guy would come out and try to talk to me every single time.  But I never stop.  I keep going with my head held high.  Always.

Published on 2012-05-17 22:40:11

İlk İngilizce hikaye paylaşma etkinliğimize davetlisiniz!

Sokak tacizi Türk toplumunda sadece bir tabu değil, arkadaş ve aile arasında bile konuşulmuyor. Bu sessizliğin aksine, araştırmamızda görüldüğü gibi %69 oranındaki anket katılımcıları ayda en az bir kez sokak tacizine maruz kaldıklarını belirtti, ve gerçek sayı büyük ihtimalle bundan daha yüksek. Canımız sokakta internet sitesi üzerinden sokak tacizi mağdurlarına iletişime geçmek ve hikayelerini paylaşmak için yardımcı oldu. Canımız Sokakta’nın yeni girişiminin arkasında da bu mantık yatıyor: yüzyüze gerçekleşecek bir hikaye paylaşma etkinliğinde mağdurlara destek olabilmek.

Canımız Sokakta yasal danışmanı Nihan Güneli şuna inanıyor: “Sokak tacizi vakalarındaki en büyük sorun mağdurların yasal haklarından haberdar olmamaları. Bu etkinlik hikayeleri paylaşmanın ötesine geçerek yasal haklar hakkında bilgilenmek ve psikolojik destek almak konusunda sokak tacizi mağdurlarına yardımcı olacak.”

Detaylar:

Yer: Molly’s Café (Camekan Sokak No 1/A, Galata, Beyoğlu, İstanbul, 212 245 16 96)

Tarih: 20 Mayıs(16-18:00)—İngilizce

Yöneticiler: Nihan Güneli (Avukat) ve İnci Tebiş (Psikolog)

Geliyorsanız haber verin: istanbul@ihollaback.org

Published on 2012-05-17 16:50:12

Lauren's story: "I still can't walk down that street without being on edge."

To the two men who harassed me from their cars this time last year,

Do you know I still can’t walk down that street without being on edge? Two days in a row. What’s up with that?

The first guy, the older gentleman in the classic car who revved his engine and honked your horn at me? I was looking at your car. Just because we happened to make eye contact doesn’t mean you get to do that.

The next day the group of young guys in a convertible honked their horn at me and called out “Nice Ass” at the same fucking intersection. Who the hell do you think you are, just because you’re in a car and can drive away doesn’t mean you get to treat women that way.

Want to know the best part? Both times I was walking down the street with my BOYFRIEND and I know you could tell because we were holding hands. That’s what really pisses me off, you weren’t trying to pick me up (which would have been disgusting on its own) you were just objectifying me and then you got to drive away and forget about it. What the hell is wrong with you. Grow up, fancy cars don’t mean anything, except that you’re probably compensating for something else.

I sincerely hope that you treat the women in your life (if there are any) better than you treated me.

Sincerely, Lauren.

PS: To society, you need to shape the fuck up because my boyfriend’s first reaction to this was “Wow! I have a hottie!” before he realized what he said and apologized to me. Harassment is NOT a compliment and you need to start recognizing the the difference so sweet, intelligent people like my boyfriend don’t fall into your traps again.

Published on 2012-05-17 12:00:33

Join our Campaign: Margaret's story about campus harassment

We are taking Hollaback! to the next level, take a minute to watch our campaign video and to donate here. We are in the first week of our campaign and have already raised $2,865 of our $25,000 goal! Help us to end harassment on college campuses! Donate today, every donation counts!

Published on 2012-05-17 10:29:34

New submission: Why street harassment is NOT flattering

Two men in a black hatchback went out of their way to pull over and let me know that I’m overweight and that I should exercise in private, to save others having to see my fat ass jiggle.

Published on 2012-05-17 10:13:07