Posts Tagged street harrassment

By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Quick Hit: The effects of stop + frisk on women

*Trigger warning* The linked article contains descriptions of harassment and unwanted touching.

Laws don’t always affect all people equally. People of color and LBGTQ people, for example, are disproportionately targeted by laws that criminalize carrying condoms as an (ineffective) way to prevent sex work. And we’ve documented how stop and frisk is executed along racial lines, and is way too harsh on people of color, including and especially LGBTQ blacks and Latinos (80 percent of those stopped by police and frisked for weapons have been black or Latino, and 90 percent were found to have done nothing wrong). But just because a law most heavily affects a certain population doesn’t mean that it only affects those people, ...

*Trigger warning* The linked article contains descriptions of harassment and unwanted touching.

Laws don’t always affect all people equally. People of color and LBGTQ people, for example, are disproportionately targeted by laws that criminalize carrying condoms as an ...

Silhouette of a woman whose breast is being grabbed by a hand
By Miriam • 13 years ago

How not to prevent sexual harrassment

This graphic was taken from an Egyptian website for a campaign to stop sexual and street harrassment. The campaign itself I’m all for (despite some rather interesting wording, which may be a translation issue) but this graphic does a terrible job of representing the campaign.

First of all, the woman (who is represented by a black silhouette with a voluptuous chest and butt) appears to be naked. She also appears to be almost pushing out her breasts at the silhouette hand that is reaching out to grab her.

This might be this most victim-blamey “prevention” graphic I’ve ever seen. Also probably not the most effective.

Via Kathleen Hanna

This graphic was taken from an Egyptian website for a campaign to stop sexual and street harrassment. The campaign itself I’m all for (despite some rather interesting wording, which may be a translation issue) but ...