“This evil harassment makes my life intolerable”
Whenever I go shopping in a supermarket, or a mall, I find myself being followed by crude, loud people. In fact it seems that everybody – especially hard-faced women – are giving me evil stares,...
View Article“I refused to cry until I got home”
I got off of the bus on the way home. As soon as the bus left my stop I was waiting to cross the street, but a black car went flying by. The guy on the passenger side had his window rolled down and he...
View ArticleSpain: Col·lectiu Punt 6: Shaping public spaces with a gender approach
Rebecca Smyth, Spain, SSH Blog Correspondent Tucked away down one of the many labyrinthine streets of Barcelona’s El Born district, Col·lectiu Punt 6 is an organisation formed by and intent on forming...
View Article“I started saying over and over that I needed to go”
I was returning to the parking lot where I parked my car and I saw a man standing right near my car. When I got closer, he told me he was homeless and asked if I could give him some money for food, and...
View ArticleQueer Review Launch Party
“When Kevin Hawkins was 16 and living in an area of Maryland still struggling to accept queer people, his mother disowned him. Down in South Carolina, Kesha Garner, who now lives in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleUSA: “All it takes is one voice in a crowd of many”
Liz Merino, Massachusetts, USA, SSH Blog Correspondent According to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s 2014 Ridership and Service Statistics, more than one million riders use its urban...
View ArticleAustin Woman Takes on Street Harassment
Learn how runner Anna Aldridge in Austin, Texas, got a mechanic shop to start addressing street harassment! Now she wants to work to address the issue city-wide. You can sign her petition:...
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