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“I was called a nazi bitch for refusing to tell a stranger on the sidewalk...
Last week, I was asked to share my story at a hearing on the recently filed bill to provide narrow protections of (and repercussions for impeding access to) reproductive healthcare clinics in the wake...
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Things That Are Fun: Riding A Bike, Going To The Beach, Dancing. Things That...
Director’s Note: This post was originally published on Britni’s personal blog, but it’s a perspective we want to include here as well. The conversation about our individual blind spots as we work to...
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When Your “Public Safety” App Perpetuates Racism and Classism
Here at Hollaback! Boston (and the entire Hollaback! organization), we’re huge fans of using mobile technology to make the streets safer. In fact, we have our very own iPhone and Android apps that...
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Why Won’t Uber Boston Talk To Us About A Sexual Harassment Policy?
I want to say this upfront: here at Hollaback! Boston, we love Uber. Many of us are Uber users ourselves, and the reason that we reached out to them with the following correspondence in the first...
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Supporters, we are so grateful to you for rallying to support safe public space for survivors of sexual violence, and for everyone in Boston! Before going public with our Change.org petition this week,...
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Our MBTA Campaign Is Finally Here!
HOLLA friends, we are so excited that our transit ads are finally a reality. It has been a two-year labor of love and frustration to bring these ads to the MBTA, but it’s all paid off. These ads are...
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Street Harassment on the MBTA: Why Romanticizing Behavior Matters
Recently while looking for our anti-harassment ads on the T, a friend of Hollaback! Boston spotted something else entirely – a poem, as part of Mass Poetry’s “Poetry on the T” program, with a different...
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Global Street Harassment Survey: We Need YOU!
We are SO excited to announce that Hollaback! sites the world over have partnered with researchers at Cornell to conduct a global survey on street harassment: we’ve got two months from today to collect...
View ArticleTips For Post-Street Harassment Self-Care
Did you know that navigating public space as a sexualized body can cause reactions similar to those experienced by soldiers who have seen combat? Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder may include...
View ArticleA Note From Hollaback! Boston About That Viral Video
Hi, Boston! By now you’ve probably seen that video of a woman, Shoshana B. Roberts, walking silently through the streets of Manhattan while she is catcalled or harassed over and over again. This...
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