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Blank Noise is organising a street intervention against sexual harassment of women
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Blank Noise Street Action is organising “I Never Ask for It”. The all-India street intervention will be on March 8. The Bangalore team meets at 5 p.m. opposite Empire on Church Street. Here’s a call to all women who have dealt with
street sexual harassment by confronting it.
It’s based on the premise that harassed women are often told “You were asking for it because you were wearing certain clothes, or were out at a certain time, or occupying a certain place”.
The final response might have been to choose to ignore the harassment, but she will have chosen to do so, not failed to notice it.
You can be an Action Hero by participating in it. Join women from all walks of life, all ages, all parts of the country, in a simultaneous street action to let the world know that women are ordinary people who have the right to share public spaces.
The Blank Noise street action challenges you to be an Action Hero. Participants are requested to come wearing a garment they wore when they were sexually harassed.
By doing so, they are actively taking a stand that reads ‘I never ask for it’. The only other requirement is – be yourself.
Blank Noise is a public, participatory project working both online and on the streets.
It comprises volunteers in various cities, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Contact: http://blog.blanknoise.org/ or call 0-98868-40612.
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