Comments on: Beyond saying no: how to fight sexual harassment

By: anasuya

anasuya — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:51:44 +0000

Thanks for dropping by, Shruti. And yes, I do know of Jagori’s work, including the recent joint action with Blank Noise. In fact, I also did a post for the Blank Noise blog-a-thon on Action Heroes, more specifically on sexual harassment in public spaces.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:10:31 +0000

JAGORI, is working on a campaign against sexual harassment in public spaces. Nice piece.

By: anasuya

anasuya — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:35:01 +0000

Thanks, River, Vi and Silkboard, for appreciating this post. A lack of information should not be the cause for women to suffer undeservedly.

And yes, SB aka Pranav, will write the story on M as soon as possible. Would like to do some translation of her poetry to share with you; might take some time…

By: silkboard

silkboard — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:26:58 +0000

Charged up post Anasuya. Waiting for the story on M.

By: Vi

Vi — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:00:11 +0000

A great/informative write up; glad to have stumbled on here through Blogbharati.

By: After the NO at Blogbharti

After the NO at Blogbharti — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:19:25 +0000

[...] Anasuya gives us some detailed information about what steps to take after the initial no to the perpetrator of sexual harassment. She begins the post in a very evocative manner… A whole lot of words and work and wrath offline. Beyond the holidays and the happy happy, there were the days of listening to stories of women raging, of women exhausted of raging, the nights of waking up thinking about them. Of P who spoke to me only two days ago, from a tiny village a few hours from Bangalore, at the end of her taut and stretched tether, because her husband and his family, not content with abusing her for a mere 2 lakh rupees in dowry, had pushed her into sex work. She is now safe at home with her parents, and a case has been registered against her husband and his family. Of M, who had to suffer being married at 14, beaten and bruised by her husband for the next 14 years, and then finally had the courage to walk out of the marriage, taking her children with her. M is also a poet and a police woman. Hers is a story worth writing about, but not today. Posted by River [...]