Your Help Needed With Street Harassment Research: Action Alert

A couple of weeks ago, we posted Black Woman Walking by Tracey Rose. Yesterday I received an email from Tracey asking for help on behalf of a graduate student conducting research on street harassment. Many of you shared your stories here on the blog in the comments section. I hope you will use your blogs and your email contacts to help gather research on this extremely important issue. The survey is being conducted via survey monkey. Here is the note from Tracey Rose and the researcher:

I received an email yesterday from a young woman doing her master's thesis on street harassment, but she needs a bit of help with a research survey. Would you be open to posting a link to her survey for your readers? If so, here is the information below. Thanks, Tracey _____________________________________________________________________ Also, I'm in my last few days of conducting an informal, anonymous online survey about stranger interactions in public (to collect people's views, experiences, stories). https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2zNzxBfuyVVLMKcoXoEtjQ_3d_3d I'd love if you would take it and share it widely. I'm trying to collect a range of experiences & stories. Men can take it as well. Thanks, Holly Kearl http://www.stopstreetharassment.com

Please pass this around on your blogs, your myspace pages,facebook, your emails. Trust me, with as much junk email as folks send me, you can afford to send this one around. Again, you can complete the survey by going here.

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"Black Woman Walking" By Tracey Rose --Restricted Freedom of Movement of Black Women

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a post about Black male privlege, some people apparently don't believe exists. Well how about the privlege of "freedom of movement." Tracey Rose completed a film called Black Woman Walking. Its refreshing yet sad at the same time that its is just an accepted part of life. There is an interesting discussion towards the end of the film about the implied knowledge that how you react to street harassment can be a matter of life, death or permanent disability if the catcalls escalate to physical violence, which is common. Hat tip to The CW Experience. I don't know if it is available for purchase, I didn't find it on Amazon.com. Unfortunately when I typed in Black woman Walking on Youtube the search results were a bunch of miogyny and dehumanization of Black women. The film is dedicated to 16 year old Adilah Gaither. She was shot and killed in 1998 when she refused to give a man her telephone number. Here is a description:

Black Woman Walking presents a dialogue among women of color that explores the nuances of street harassment. Through personal stories and analysis, the women interviewed reveal how this accepted, socially tolerable form of violence affects the way they view themselves, the men in their communities, and the potential for violence that lives at the intersection of race and gender. Brooklyn Arts Festival

Yep just walking down the street. If anyone find out where you can purchase the film, let me know and I will plug it. More of us need to chronicle our life experiences, we can't rely on BET to to it. HA!

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