When I started this project, I reached out to allies and found that I was not the only one who felt a deep need to take action against street harassment. Each person and organization who I came into contact with was deeply passionate about working to end harassment. Before I knew it, I was swept up in a movement and am now calling myself activist - as I dance in action to spread awareness around the issue.
I am thrilled to be premiering my first evening length dance work as a part of this movement. We are one of more than 100 organizations and activists from 18 countries participating in hundreds of events across the world during March 18-24 for the International Anti-Street Harassment Week. During International Anti-Street Harassment Week, community members, activists, students, and bloggers will join forces to speak out about gender-based street harassment -- catcalls, sexist comments, flashing, groping, stalking, and assault -- and work toward solutions.
Below you'll find the times, dates, and locations for events taking place in New York City as well as other ways for you to participate on your own.
* Tuesday March 20 from 4:00-5:00PM, Self-defense class for pre-teen women at the Langston Hughes Library in Flushing, Queens 100-01 Northern Blvd (Tracy Hobson and the Center for Anti-Violence Education) http://www.caeny.org/
*Thursday, March 22 from 6-10 p.m., "I've Got Your Back" Launch Party, hosted by Hollaback at The Suffolk: 107 Suffolk Street at the Rivington, New York, NY 10002
https://www.facebook.com/events/303267023063928/
http://www.ihollaback.org/
Join Hollaback as they celebrate international anti-street harassment week and the kick off of their new "I've Got Your Back" campaign designed to show people how to intervene when they witness street harassment and to celebrate when they do. Learn about free anti-street harassment iPhone and Droid apps. In honor of the event, recording artist BLAKE (http://www.blakemusic.com/) will be performing and plans to release her music video for the song "Creepin" she wrote about street harassment. $5 at the door. Proceeds benefit Hollaback!, a nonprofit organization.
* Friday, March 23 from 7:30PM-9:30PM, The Window Sex Project at The Red Carpet Theater at Taino Towers, 240 East 123rd Street, NY, NY 10035. The World Premiere of this amazing performance addresses and tackles the every day practice in which women are “window shopped,” that is forced to bear unsolicited verbal harassment from men while walking on the street. Through community workshops and choreographed performance, The Window Sex Project will give voice to these concerns and restore agency to women by equipping them to manage street harassment, celebrating their bodies and creating a public artwork, specifically a dance performance which takes place in an art gallery. http://www.windowsexprojectpremiere.eventbrite.com/
*Saturday, March 24 from 1-3PM, Anti-Street Harassment Week Rally at the Judson Memorial Church (http://www.judson.org/) on Washington Square Park in Manhattan (55 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 | phone: 212-477-0351)
featuring passionate, articulate speakers who touch and are touched by this topic:
Julissa Ferreras -- New York City Council Member
Joe Samalin -- Lecturer and Trainer for Anti -Street Harassment topics
Christabel Cruz -- A Spoken Word Poet
TBD from the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT Youth
Linda Sarsour -- Executive Director of the Arab American League
Piel Martinez -- Sisters in Strength Youth Organizer for Girls for Gender Equity
Nefertiti Martin -- Community Organizer for Girls for Gender Equity
Lucia Rivieccio -- Director of Steps to End Family Violence
Natalie Richman -- Hollaback
Alli Lindner -- Student Hunter College and member of the anti-street harassment project at Queerocracy
Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD - Counselor and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Hunter College
Mindy Tom -- Researcher and student at Parson's School of Design
Illeana Jimenez -- Lecturer and Feminist Teacher, Elizabeth Irwin High School
Sydnie Mosley -- Choreographer and Dancer, Creator of the Window Sex Project
Jasmine Burnett -- Board Member, Center for Anti-Violence Education
Grace Tobin -- High School Senior, Elizabeth Irwin High School
Emma Stydahar -- High School Junior, Elizabeth Irwin High School
Lin Jeong -- Psychology Student at Hunter College
* Steps to End Family Violence (STEPS) will again this year be in a number of NYC schools presenting their program Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP), providing educational workshops, creating informative bulletin boards to raise awareness, hanging anti-street harassment materials all over schools challenging myths that allow street harassment, making announcements over the school PAs about street harassment prevention, reviewing statistics and articles on street harassment and sparking conversations with students about the attitudes that persist that excuse this and other types of sexual harassment, creating buttons with students with relevant message, and providing information about Anti-Street Harassment Week and sexual harassment to students, faculty, staff, and parents. Contact Connie Marquez to see how you can help and to learn what schools are participating. http://www.egscf.org/services/steps/
Other Ways you can Participate:
1. 10 things you can do for International Anti-Street Harassment Week http://tinyurl.com/7zsa43m
2. Counter victim-blaming. Take a pic of what u were wearing when street harassed. Share in online gallery http://t.co/kY1Oey96
3. Request a free copy of the “walking home” dvd + discussion guide to spark convos about #streetharassment, email lauren@artsengine.net
4. During March 18-24, change your Facebook profile pic: http://tinyurl.com/848gclv #NoSHWeek
5. Anti-Street Harassment Week logos in 12 languages – post 1 on your site! http://tinyurl.com/7yjdvys #NoSHWeek
6. Guide for organizing an event, march, or poster campaign for Anti-Street Harassment Week http://tinyurl.com/7q4ky82 #NoSHWeek
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