Anti-Street Harassment Week
Safecity Monthly Updates – April 2023
Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can do this by sharing our experiences or others anonymously and make these stories [...]Read more
Anti-Street Harassment Week 2020
Harassment. One word. Multiple meanings. We dedicate a whole week to prevent this. We come together, despite our geographic and language barriers, to stop this. All ages, all genders, all people collectively speak out together to ensure one message is clear: Street Harassment is [...]Read more
Role of Men to build Safe Streets
“We must send a message across the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is rather on the aggressor.“ Street harassment is a topic we all know about but still treat as taboo. It is a topic we don’t want to discuss, because we are afraid [...]Read more
I Dream of a Perfect Street
Erika De Lesseps is in her second year of Millburn High School in the United States. She recently joined Safecity as blogging and social media intern. She is constantly looking to raise awareness about the injustice that women face all over the world What is a perfect street? Is [...]Read more
An insight to Catcalling
Antara Basu is a feminist writer and blogger, hanging by the thread of procrastination trying to achieve perfectionism. Go through this write-up to find out what she has to say about Catcalling. She’s 6; she doesn’t understand what they were shouting. She’s 16; she keeps [...]Read more
Not your Mamacita
Karishma has recently completed her Masters in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Program and Outreach Officer at Red Dot Foundation and is constantly looking for ways to critique and dismantle the heteronormative patriarchy through [...]Read more
We Fight Back Fearless
Antara Basu is a feminist writer and blogger, hanging by the thread of procrastination trying to achieve perfectionism. She has beautifully put what Anti-Street Harassment Week stands against. Indian streets, famous for their food, infamous for their harassment; while the aroma [...]Read more
Make My Streets Safe- Anti-Street Harassment Week 2019
Safecity conducted an online campaign during Anti-Street Harassment Week inviting people of all ages and genders to share stories, poems, blogs, pictures etc of harassment they face on the streets. [...]Read more
Politalks- Street Harassment and Urban Planning
As part of the #AntiStreetHarassmentWeek we had #Politalks– a discussion on street harassment and the role of urban planning in making public spaces more inclusive. The session was co-facilitated by Vihang Jumle and Priya Tiwari. They touched upon numerous topics, from the [...]Read more
Talking Street Harassment by Torch Light
The lack of electricity did not deter this young crowd from participating and they drew their experiences and thoughts by torch light wholeheartedly. In our community meet-up in Premnagar, Pune, 15 children and youth made colourful charts related to street harassment during [...]Read more