street harassment
Street Harassment
On 19th July Shivani @shivii_26 conducted a Tweetchat on – “Street Harassment” This is a topic that resonates with all of us, irrespective of age. The chat opened with the question of whether we should confront the situation when someone tries to harass us. It had the [...]Read more
Dodging nudges and touches in Public Transport
When we conduct awareness workshops in schools, colleges and communities, many share their stories with us. For some, it is the first time they are breaking their silence about the harassment they have experienced. While maintaining the confidentiality and their privacy, we want [...]Read more
Objectified
Yamini Parashar is pursuing her BA from Delhi university. She likes to write poems and observe things and is concerned with social issues. She identifies herself as a feminist and sees herself as a clinical psychologist in a few years. She’s been a part of a few poetry programmes [...]Read more
#MeToo
Yamini Parashar is pursuing her BA from Delhi university. She likes to write poems and observe things and is concerned with social issues. She identifies herself as a feminist and sees herself as a clinical psychologist in a few years. She’s been a part of a few poetry programmes [...]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
Dear Mother
Yamini Parashar is pursuing her BA from Delhi university. She likes to write poems and observe things and is concerned with social issues. She identifies herself as a feminist and sees herself as a clinical psychologist in a few years. She’s been a part of a few poetry programmes [...]Read more
Identifying Street Harassment
Safecity conducted a workshop in collaboration with Gupshup at Kamla Nehru School with 80 students including both boys and girls on 16th April, 2019. The subject of the workshop was Awareness on Street Harassment. It was shocking to know that the students were very much familiar [...]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
Learning about Safety through Puppets
Naina Jha conducted a workshop creating awareness about Child Sexual Abuse for the students of Kahanighar in collaboration with Gupshup on 7th April as part of Anti Street Harassment Week. There were 18 students. She spoke to them about safe and unsafe touch and the No-Go-Tell [...]Read more
The Battle against Street Harassment
On 13th April, Jaswinder Sign @freudontherocks from Protsahan @NGOProtsahan conducted a tweetchat on the battle against Street Harassment as part of Anti-Street Harassment Week. The chat began by questioning whether the existent laws against street harassment in India are being [...]Read more