Price of Silence Year in Review: Check out our rehearsal performance of On the Block. On the Block translates street harassment into dance from under the skin we live in, choreographed by Price of Silence Artistic Director Jamali Corniel. Vimeo: https://vimeo/103105287 Street harassment is NOT a compliment and it’s not harmless. This was evident this year in many tragic news stories: * In Brazil, between January and August 2014, 12 young women aged 13-29 were shot and killed by a motorcyclist as they stood in public spaces. The reason? They were young and female. * A woman in Detroit was shot dead by a harasser after refusing to give him her phone number. * In India, two teenagers committed suicide because young men in the area kept following them. * A man in New York slashed the throat of a woman who refused to go on a date with him. * A man in Seattle pulled out a gun after a woman ignored his repeated invitations to “hang out.” * A man in England put a woman in a hospital after punching her when she told him to stop touching her. * Men harassed and violently attacked two transwomen in Atlanta in a subway car, prompting them to move from the city. * In Chicago, a man put a woman in a headlock and tried to steal her phone after she refused to give him her number on the subway.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:58:25 +0000
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