Showing posts with label Harassment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harassment. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Yale Has Been Systematically Covering Up Crimes For Decades

According to feminist author Naomi Wolf, even though 16 students filed a federal complaint against Yale University last week for its "sexually hostile environment," sexual harassment at Yale is nothing new.
"For at least two decades, Yale has been systematically covering up much more serious crimes than the ones the students have even identified," said the author, who graduated from Yale in 1984, on CBS's Early Show this week.
Read More Here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/naomi-wolf-yale-has-been-_n_844869.html?ref=fb&src=sp

Monday, February 22, 2010

BACK UP! Concrete Diaries, a documentary on street harassment from the perspective of sistas

Date:
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Time:
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:
The Theater
Street:
500 William Street (corner of William & Telegraph @ 20th)
City/Town:
Oakland, CA

MAAAN UP! Presents: a community screening of BACK UP! Concrete Diaries, a documentary on street harassment from the perspective of sistas

This is a free event. please come out with your lovers, family, colleagues and community members, and watch the first California screening of Nijla Mumin’s impactful and extremely relevant work-in-progress. Q&A with the filmmaker follows, donations accepted in support of the completion of this film.

BACK UP! Concrete Diaries
6-8:30pm
500 William Street,
corner of William and Telegraph @ 20th
free admission, seating for 30.
small snacks and beverages will be available.

Please click here to see a preview of BACK UP!, and forward this to your community! Bless up

http://fem-men-ist.blogspot.com/2009/10/back-up-concrete-diaries-sistas.html

***PS: extra prize for women who bring a man or boy with them!!


MAAAN UP! is the Men of African Ancestry Action Network for Unlearning Patriarchy. We hold spaces for men of African ancestry to process issues of black masculinity and its intersections with patriarchy, and seek multivariate strategies to be allies to women and girls.