It’s nearly time for Atta Girl!!! We’ve just finished pinning all our brand new badges to our flyers to give out on the night. So best pop along early if you want to grab one for yourself.
Atta Girl – A Clubnight of Girl Tunes – This Friday:
What have we got in store?
- Free Entry!
- B.A.R (Birmingham Against Rape) fund raising raffle with top prizes of £50 Selfridges voucher and London Theatre ticket vouchers.
- Hollaback Birmingham will be with us too with an interactive wall for sticking your stories on.
- Our usual request list of scribbleness.
- A whole load of brand new badges!
- Lolly pops!
- A charity cocktail (50p of every one goes to B.A.R)
- AND girl tunes all night long for a rather splendid Atta Girl party!
In our last post we told you all about B.A.R. Since then we’ve also got Hollaback Birmingham onboard who launched their website last week. Here’s what they’re all about:
Take action against street harassment: don’t just walk on… Hollaback!
Hollaback Birmingham! is part of the growing, international movement of Hollaback! to end street harassment against women and LGBTQ individuals.
The term Street Harassment covers any kind of intimidation which women and LGBTQ individuals often experience in public places such as on the street or the bus. Including being leered at, shouted at or even physically touched, flashed at or even masturbated in front of. The list goes on…
Hollaback! Birmingham is all about today, about engaging with contemporary women and LGBTQ individuals through the power of the Internet and your phone. If you experience any kind of street harassment which makes you feel uncomfortable, undermined or just plain mad– you don’t have to ‘put up with it’.
Hollaback instead by sharing your story on our official website (which launched on August 10th) But like many others have, you can share your stories on our Facebook Page too.
Our site is a resource to allow people to share their stories without being victims, as well as to highlight just how often it happens, and to work on what we’re going to do about it; together.
Knowing that you are not alone, and that this behaviour is not just something you have to ignore, is the first step to making it unacceptable. The current social situation perpetuates the idea that women-identified bodies are public property, are somehow on offer, and that harassment, abuse, assault and daily fear is just the price we pay for being female or being outside of the heterosexual bracket.
At Hollaback Birmingham! we were inspired by the work of Hollaback! around the globe, from the US to India and almost everywhere in between, fighting to combat the reality of street harassment in its many and varied forms. We saw how the movement had spread to both London and Manchester and felt that Birmingham, officially the second city, was desperately in need of a movement like Hollaback! to combat the street harassment many face on a daily basis.
Hollaback! Birmingham believes that everyone has the right to feel safe, confident and attractive; guilt free. Working alongside other community, rape and domestic violence groups based within our own communities, we hope to combat the attitudes that lead to this behaviour and the outdated cultural norms that some say make it ‘okay.’
We are here to abolish the cultural acceptance of street harassment and we can only do it with your help! Share your story and start confronting street harassment today!
Find us on Facebook as ‘Hollaback! Birmingham’. Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollaback-Birmingham/178152425576893
Add us on Twitter @ihollabackBrmUK
