Tag Archives: street harrassment

Quick Hit: The effects of stop + frisk on women

By Lori | Published: August 7, 2012
Tweet*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 [...]
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How not to prevent sexual harrassment

By Miriam | Published: October 27, 2010
Tweet 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 [...]
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