The Window Sex Project: An Update [re blog]

I. CURRENT EVENTS

Unless you've been under a rock in the past 48 hours, you have by now seen the infamous viral video on street harassment of a woman walking for 10 hours in New York City. This video has brought the conversation on street harassment from a buzz to a ROAR in mainstream media, faster than I was prepared for. Seriously, yesterday so many important interweb conversations were happening that I could not even fully participate in because... hello life. hello jobs that pay my rent. So I'm not EVEN gonna try.

What I am gonna do is direct you to Ebony.com where Senior Editor Jamilah Lemeiux breaks it down so it can forever be broke. She begins with a childhood memory about witnessing her mother being harassed. Lemeiux writes:

She shrank. I’d never seen her do that before, and I can probably count on one hand the number of times that I’ve seen her do that since. 

So began my introduction to the pain of street harassment, the toxic byproduct of a global patriarchy; a set of behaviors that are condoned, if not affirmed, by the widely-held belief that women’s bodies belong to the public and that leaving one’s home means that you are available, accessible and ripe for the picking.

Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/news-views/what-is-street-harassment-034#ixzz3HeNC9liF Follow us: @EbonyMag on Twitter | EbonyMag on Facebook

L to R: Autumn Scoggan, Candace Thompson, Kimberly Mhoon

from The Window Sex Project film.

photo credit: Keevan Girdharry

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