A Time To Reflect

charukesi June 14th, 2005

This is a blog I have been meaning to write about for a while. Jasmeen Patheja is working on a project on street harassment - something that all women face, irrespective of age and the kind of clothes we wear in public - although Shiv Sena would have you believe otherwise… Blank Noise Project is about the silent screams of “normal” women who live with the did-I-invite-it guilt and shame on top of the actual harassment they go through…

This is what her blog says - Street harassment is an offence. It has been granted normalcy due to its daily recurrence. Like other things we have learnt to ignore and /or accept and /or defend ourselves against…

A while ago, I had blogged about the mind map that a group of 60 women between the ages of 17-23 had created on ‘public space’- violation is the one theme that all participants have come up with - discomfort, stare, anxiety, aggression, vulnerability, fear, groping, feeling sick…. Read more about the mind map here.

She has a public event in Bangalore tomorrow - details here…

If you live in Bangalore, and are interested, do drop in and say hi from me too….
If you don’t and are still interested, visit her blog or get in touch with her.

• Society & Development , - Gender issues