Sunday, March 20, 2011

Guest Post: On International Anti-Street Harassment Day, AtreveteDF Urges Youth Education « Feminist Teacher

Guest Post: On International Anti-Street Harassment Day, AtreveteDF Urges Youth Education « Feminist Teacher

Guest Post: On International Anti-Street Harassment Day, AtreveteDF Urges Youth Education

AtreveteDF, a new chapter of Hollaback!, fights against street harassment throughout Mexico City.

Earlier this fall, Feminist Teacher readers learned about the work that my high school students did with Emily May’s Hollaback! anti-street harassment movement. In particular, my student Grace Tobin testified at a New York City Council hearing on street harassment and the peers in her class sent in their powerful testimonies to the Hollaback blog. The importance of addressing street harassment in schools was never made more apparent to me than when my students shared their stories about being harassed on the subways and streets of New