About

Website:

This website is a space for us to work together to stop street harassment. Share your stories, advice, and activism ideas for stopping street harassment. Learn about street harassment, find resources, read stories, learn how to deal with harassers, and become inspired to take action to end this widespread problem.

Website Founder:

Holly Kearl is a street harassment expert, writer, and nonprofit professional in the Washington, DC, area. She wrote her master’s thesis in 2007 on street harassment and then founded this website in 2008. Her book Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women is now available.

Holly has written op-eds for the Huffington Post and Oregonian and an article for AOL's Lemondrop. Her work has been featured by the United Nations, CNN, Feministing.com, Jezebel, Washington City Paper, New York City Examiner, Bitch magazine, and AOL's That's Fit. Internationally, her work has been mentioned in articles in Canada, New Zealand, Egypt, and Turkey.

 

Note, the images used in the website banner header come from the International Museum for Women and Medindia.