West Yorkshire Hollaback! Launched

Icon_article Published: August 18, 2011 13:27 by Bradford Feminist Group |

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A new website has been launched for those who have been harrassed in the street to share their stories, feelings and information about their experiences. The site is called West Yorkshire Hollaback! and is now live, featuring a map of location of incidents described on the website.

You can contribute a story by going to the site and clicking on 'share your story', you can also upload pictures of the person or vehicle involved if you have them. You don't have to give your name.

Click on a thumbnail for a slideshow view

Scroll down to listen to an interview with Emma from the Hollaback! West Yorkshire project taken from episode seven of DIY or Die.

From the WY Hollaback! website:

Hollaback! is a movement dedicated to ending street harassment. Street harassment occurs on a daily basis all over the world, and indeed all over West Yorkshire. We cover the whole County including the Cities of Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford and Huddersfield. The term ‘Street harassment' is used to describe sexual harassment which takes place in public spaces, and refers to behaviour such as staring, sexualised commenting, shouting, following, touching, grabbing, groping, flashing, assault, and violence.

The Hollaback movement started in New York in 2005 with a group of Men & Women frustrated at there being no real response to street harassment. Hollaback West Yorkshire uses a web based platform to begin drawing attention to and addressing these issues. Users of the site can post their stories in a safe environment, uploading them to the website so they can be shared with others and collated on a map & woven together to build a clearer picture of street harassment in West Yorkshire than has ever been done before.