WOMEN OF COLOR AND STREET HARASSMENT by Teresilla

When I first heard about the push back against “street harassment” I thought about brief, mostly meaningless experiences.

I simply hadn't put the men that had stalked, cursed and scared me from  2 minutes up to a long @$$ 5 minutes into the mild category called “harrasser.”

Sometimes "street harassment" is a hairs breadth from "assault."
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...In spite of all of the dialogue, one voice has remained deafeningly silent (or silenced) on the issue: women of color. Far from the stereotyped misnomer of our immunity to street harassment (at least to the extent that we are rarely discussed in social experiments such as this), women of color such as myself are also harassed on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, there is no amount of staring a hole into the pavement or turning up your headphones to full blast that can deter our harassers.

 - From Bougie Black Girl

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