MNN TV Segment

Did you miss us on television last month? Check out our short documentary segment that aired April 26, 2012 on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN).

Did you Meet Us On The Street?

Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment and founder of the activist organization of the same name has compiled an overview of the activities (including The Window Sex Project) that took place worldwide March 18-24, 2012, to bring attention to the issue of gender-based street harassment. Check out this fantastic report below which demonstrates the international outcry and demand for justice in public spaces.

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What Makes You Phenomenal?

Our friend Dash Harris, who is busy empowering women every day over at VenusGenus.com, attended one of our community workshops back in July 2011. That day she asked the women in attendance one simple question: What Makes You Phenomenal?

Here are our answers:

The Window Sex Project on TV, April 26th!

This Thursday, April 26 at 4:30pm a segment on The Window Sex Project will air on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Culture Channel.

3 reasons to watch:

1. The segment places this work as a local, community project showing the kind of artist & activist work going on in Harlem.
2. You get to see our awesome advocacy for gender justice in public space, dance-activism, and arts in education.
3. Interviews with me, dancers + some of our fabulous dancing in The Red Carpet Theater!

Check us out on Fios (channel 36), RCN (channel 85) or TWC (channel 67) in the Manhattan area only. If you are not in Manhattan or able to see it on tv, there is also a live web stream. Go to "www.mnn.org." Under the main banner, on the far right, there is a "Red Number 4" just below that, is the "Watch now" link. Click that and you will be able to view it.

Free Self Defense Workshop for Girls on April 25th!

In honor of Denim Day on April 25th       

You are invited to participate in a
Self Defense Workshop and Discussion on 

Sexual Assault Prevention
(for girls and women ages 12 and up)

Location: Marta Valle School Gymnasium (RAPP School)
145 Stanton Street
Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm

 

Sponsored by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer

Daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, nieces
come together and take a stand against sexual violence!

Please reserve your place by calling 212.669.4462
or emailing hnemchik@manhattanbp.org

Post Performance Discussion at Barnard College with Professor L’Heureux "Dumi" Lewis

On Monday, April 2, the Barnard Center for Research on Women presented The Window Sex Project in its entirety on campus in The Diana Event Oval. It was an honor to present my first evening length work on campus with the support of friends, colleagues and professors who are still mentors to me in this dancing-dance making-activist-learning life I've made for myself.

I've made it a point to make sure that there is a discussion after each showing of the 60 minute performance because (1) it was created to be a conversation starter, and (2) this is the point where I ask men to dialogue with us the performers, and other women about how we can all be free to exist safely and un-bothered in public spaces, and further, how we can communicate respectfully with one another.

As such, I invited Professor L'Heureux "Dumi" Lewis-McCoy to join us and offer his perspective as a male ally in the anti-street harassment movement. Dr. Lewis-McCoy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York – CUNY. His research concentrates on issues of educational inequality, the role of race in contemporary society, and gender equity. He recently contributed an article to Ebony Magazine with a request to men to Interrupt Street Harassment. 

Please see his commentary below on street harassment and The Window Sex Project, along with the thoughts and comments of the performers and audience members.

Stares (via @BlacknTravelin)