Resources
RightRides for Women’s Safety is a nonprofit organization that builds safer communities by ending gender-based violence and sexual assault. RightRides provides free, safe, late-night rides home for women and LGBTQ individuals in NYC from 11:59 p.m. until 3 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night. Call 888-215-7233.
Girls for Gender Equity is an intergenerational, grassroots organization committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women. GGE fights for urban girls and makes extraordinary contributions to the community and to the educational, economic and cultural life of New York City.
HollabackNYC is dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology. By collecting women and LGBTQ folks’ stories and pictures in a safe and share-able way with our very own mobile phone applications, Hollaback! is creating a crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment.
The Ali Forney Center protects LGBTQ youth from the harm of homelessness, and supports them in becoming safe and independent as they move from adolescence to adulthood.
The Center for Anti-Violence Education works as a catalyst for change in the lives of women, transgender people, teen women, children, and other communities especially affected by violence. CAE’s programs are designed to develop participants’ skills, knowledge, and awareness to enable them to heal from, prevent, and counter violence.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 is a union which represents transportation workers in bus and subway lines in New York City. TWU Local 100 feels a responsibility to all working people to ensure that public authorities, such as the MTA, respect their rights.
The Anti-Violence Project is dedicated to eliminating hate violence, sexual assault, stalking, and domestic violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities through counseling, advocacy, organizing, and public education.
NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault builds the capacity of communities, organizations, and institutions to advance the right to live free from sexual violence and reduce the harm it causes individuals, families, and society.
Safe Horizon provides support, prevents violence, and promotes justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families, and communities.
Men Can Stop Rape mobilizes men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men’s violence against women. It provides agencies, schools, and organizations with direct services for youth, public service messaging, and leadership training.
Audre Lorde Project’s Safe OUTside the System Collective is an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color. We are devoted to challenging hate and police violence by using community based strategies rather than relying on the police.
V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP believes that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence.
READ
Hidden In Plain Sight: Sexual Harassment and Assault in the New York City Subway System
How to Ease Women’s Fear of Transportation Environments
Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women
The Harm that Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women
Women and Transit Security: A New Look at an Old Issue
WATCH
War Zone
Shot all over the US, Maggie Hadleigh-West turns her camera on men in 76 minutes of explosive footage of the filmmaker placing herself in very real danger by daring to ask men on the street why they are treating a complete stranger in a sexual way.
Hey…Shorty!
Girls for Gender Equity’s youth-produced documentary focuses on women of color’s experiences with street harassment and men of color’s ideas about and intentions behind the behavior. It exposes the frequency with which street harassment occurs, dispels myths about who it happens to and why, and examines the root causes of why men feel it is their right to approach women, in ways both friendly and violent, in public spaces.
Walking Home
Nuala Cabral’s experimental film about women ritually facing street harassment. Shot in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, it mixes 16mm film, video, poetry and music in an effort to honor and reclaim our humanity in the public sphere. This is for the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.
Black Woman Walking
Tracey Rose’s short film 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.
Stop Looking At My Mom! by The Astronomical Kid
A 14-year-old boy raps about being offended when men harass his mother on the street.
A more comprehensive list of resources on public sexual harassment can be found here.
