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The Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team formed five years ago when a handful of teenage girls decided to rally against the unsolicited cat calls and sexual harassment they felt forced to endure on the streets. Now, they’re kneeing the CTA in the balls.
The group is holding a seminar tonight at Loyola University titled SpeakOUT, in which people are encouraged to come forward with their stories of sexual assault and harassment on buses and trains in Chicago. If you’ve ever been followed, felt up, hounded, “bad touched,” or actually attacked while on public transportation, or if you just live in constant fear that you will be, this is the place for you to vent. These young women hope that solutions to this problem will be uncovered by bringing these stories to light.
As they did with the issue of street harassment, they’re currently researching safety on the CTA. You can help by taking their survey.
SpeakOUT is at Kasbeer Hall, 25 E. Pearson, May 22, 5 -7 p.m.
Photo by Katherine of Chicago.
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This is encouraging to hear! I'm all for it! Thankfully these same women don't live in Japan, where the sardine-packed environment of the subway there is an bottomless pit of sexual harassment lawsuits waiting to happen.
Ali, would love to see a follow-up post after this event.
As I read this again, Twisted Sister is playing in my mind's radio, and at volume level 11 I hear, "We're not gonna take it! No, we ain't gonna take it! We're not gonna take it...anymoooorrrrre!!!!" Just saying.