Hey feministing community -

I've written a few posts and comments on here over the last 10 months about my work with street harassment and my efforts to collect street harassment stories for a book I've been working on. Well, I am pleased to share that I got offered a book contract today and I am really happy!

After talking about writing a book, doing research, interviewing people, and collecting stories, being offered a contract finally makes me feel legitimate and makes the whole thing real!! Especially in this economy, I feel lucky to have found someone willing to take a chance on someone who has never published before, is only a few years out of college, and who has written on an underrepresented topic (in books) and one which will likely be very controversial.

My manuscript is due Jan 1 so I will be working really hard these next few months on it and I want to make sure I include as many points of view, stories, thoughts, and experiences as possible. So thank you everyone who participated in my informal survey last fall, and if you didin't but you have a street harassment story, strategy for dealing with it, idea for ending it, or if you're an activist on this issue and you want your info to be considered for inclusion in the book, please contact me at stopstreetharassmentATyahooDOTcom. You can also fill out an anonymous online form to submit the info to me.

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July 23, 2009 5:28 PM

[0+]  jackie said:

Congratulations!

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July 23, 2009 6:15 PM

[0+]  Siby said:

Congratulations, and thank you for writing about a topic like this. Street harassment is an issue that desperately needs to be addressed.

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July 23, 2009 7:09 PM

[0+]  llevinso said:

Congratulations! I remember you commenting when I posted a community post on catcalling. Your comments were both insightful and helpful. I think your book sounds very interesting and I can't wait to read it :)

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July 23, 2009 11:59 PM

[0+]  EKSwitaj said:

Congrats!

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July 24, 2009 12:15 AM

[0+]  rebekah said:

congrats! I alaways find it helpful when women are the ones talking about issues that are relevant to women who take a look at it through a feminists looking glass. But I do have a question, Exactly what do you cover under street harassment? I haven't really heard the term before and I would like to know

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July 24, 2009 4:56 PM

[0+]  p0w3rful replied to rebekah :

Thanks! On my website I cover a range of definitions of street harassment.

You are not alone in not knowing what the term means (I only heard it used for the first time 4 years ago. Before that I didn't know what to call men's behavior on the streets), so in the first chapter of my book, I spend most of the time explaining different definitions of it, my definition, examples of its prevalence from a range of community and academic studies on it and excerpts of women's stories to illustrate specific acts. You can click on the words in the first paragraph http://www.stopstreetharassment.com/ to read some excerpts of stories. Hope that helps.

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July 24, 2009 5:03 AM

[0+]  Marc said:

Hey! Congrats! Always nice to see feminists publishing!

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July 24, 2009 1:25 PM

[0+]  DoGooderLawyer said:

Mazel tov! very happy for you.

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July 24, 2009 4:51 PM

[0+]  p0w3rful said:

Thank you! :)

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