eve teasing

Blank Noise - Tokyo? Street sexual harassment/ Chikan in Japan

Event: Action Hero Game (crash course)
Location: Akihabara Tokyo, 3331 Arts via Dislocate
Date: 9/10/2010

Participants describe what they felt when they experienced the game.

Game Introduction:
*Blank Noise Action Hero Game
Duration- 2 hours

Task 1: each participant AKA ACTION HERO is asked to select a location unfamiliar to him/ her in Akihabara- Tokyo. The Action Hero goes to that site and gets instructions for 6 tasks. The tasks themselves are a 'secret' - they range from observing/ imagining/ to taking action in the form of having a conversation with a stranger. What choices do the action heroes make? What 'action hero' moment has each of them experienced? more photos on facebook


Action Hero Pila
Action Hero Ryo


We're in Japan!

Women's Reservation Bill : Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav : 'If the women's reservation bill were to be passed in its existing form, it would result in flooding the parliament and state legislatures with wives of government officials and women connected with big industrial houses, thereby provoking young men to indulge in eve-teasing.'

“I don't like to say this, but they would be the women at whom youths would whistle.”


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To The Deputy Director of Tourism, Goa


“You can't blame the locals; they have never seen such women. Foreign tourists must maintain a certain degree of modesty in their clothing. Walking on the beaches half-naked is bound to titillate the senses,” New Delhi's Mail Today newspaper quoted Pamela Mascarhenas, Goa's deputy director of tourism, as saying Friday.

To the Deputy Director of Tourism, Goa
Pamela Mascarhenas,

By making the statement above you are blaming women instead of taking responsibility of the issue. If you believe a person's dress is culturally inappropriate, you may continue to believe so, but you cannot defend any act of violence. A person inappropriately dressed according to your idea of 'Indianness' does not deserve to be attacked, assaulted, molested, raped or even whistled at.

For your information, women from across age groups be it 3 month old babies of 90 year old have been raped. They have been raped in saris, burkhas, salwar kameez, school uniforms, bikinis, jeans, skirts, shirts,lungis. Women have been molested, assaulted, raped at all times of the day, and in public places.

We hope this will direct you towards taking responsibility of these incidents by actually addressing male behaviour and men in Goa, for which you will first have to address yourself by accepting this truth.

We have evidence even though we don't really need it.

No woman of any colour, dress , age, character deserves to be sexually violated or what some might lightly call 'eve teased'.

Thank you for your attention,
An Indian girl who loves her saris and her hot pants.

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I do not deserve to be violated because of what I wear: I NEVER ASK FOR IT.
We are having a clothes collection drive.

All Action Heroes will bring the garment worn at the time of experiencing street sexual harassment, street sexual intimidation, street sexual violence, or being 'eve-teased'.

All Action Heroes will come wearing a garment they've always wanted to wear but did not wear before .

All Action Heroes will be agents, and spread the word, * bring a friend, start collecting clothes as they read this.

*Action Heroes can be male too- we call them the BN guy- and yes all BN guys can contribute too. We want our BN guys to propose ideas via which men can be involved, addressed in the issue of street sexual harassment. All ideas will be published on the blog and followed up if you commit! Are you a BN guy yet?

A big thank you in advance for linking, tweeting, facebooking and making it happen.
tweet with us at twitter.com/blank_noise


CLOTHES COLLECTION DRIVE DETAILS:

week 1
Saturday Feb 13. 2009
Sunday Feb 14. 2009
time: 4 pm- 6 pm
Bangalore: MG Road


week 2
Feb 20
Bangalore: Majestic

week 3
Feb 27
Delhi:

week 4
March 7
Calcutta/Bombay


More details coming up. Stay tuned.
e:blurtblanknoise @gmail.com for any thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions

Link list:
Ramit
Ramit
Chanz
Little About
Vamban
India Talkies
Prokerala news
Sakshi
Mixx
Zetky

spectators:



you saw it happen
you walked away

you saw it happen
you intervened

you might have seen someone else experience
street sexual harassment/ violence/ or being 'eve teased'
did you support the survivor?
or did you walk away?
what made you react?
what made you indifferent?

PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE
OF BEING A SPECTATOR TO STREET
SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR 'EVE TEASING'
you might find this form of use- or you could simply email in the incident.
e: blurtblanknoise at gmail dot com

Moments of a Long Pause






Moments of a Long Pause is a 2 channel video installation based on interviews with men and women on the streets of 5 cities in India (Delhi, Agra, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Calcutta) . The video brings men and women in a conversation. The conversation is built on the personal street experience of fear, sexual harassment, sexual violence, flirting, wooing, 'teasing'.

The 2 channel video attempts to understand how both men and women approach eve teasing and street sexual violence in their daily lives.

Moments of a Long Pause has been Comissioned by Bronx Museum of Arts ( Street Art, Street Life 2008)
also supported by: Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Moments of a Long Pause can be seen from today Sept 14 until Jan 25 (2008)at the Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx. NY with the show Street Art, Street Life

confirm on facebook:
http://www.new.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=24312104661&new&m=1#/event.php?eid=24312104661

Thanking ALL members of the Blank Noise team, Action Heroes, bloggers, supporters who ever raised a question on this subject- each comment either in support or against has given us insight into the issue.

THANK YOU!

We thank Dana Roy, Trippy Scarlet, Hemangini Gupta, Annie Zaidi, Smriti Chanchani, Saurabh, Ravindranath Gutta, Shabnam Virmani, Anjora Naronha, Umang Bhattacharya, Indri, Nita, Narinder, Rupam, Ivan Medenica, Papoo Singh, Chandan +Nupur Mathur( for shooting), Timo Boeker( edit assistance) + many many many Action Heroes

MOMENTS OF A LONG PAUSE has been screened / installed at the following places

Bronx Museum of Art - commissioned for the show Street Art Street Life. 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2010) installed until Jan 25. 2011
3331 Arts Chiyoda via Dislocate , Tokyo(2010)
GSU Atlanta (2010)
MGallery BMB, Mumbai (2010)
Transportraits- Delhi (2010)
Akademie Schloss Solitude (2008)

To buy a copy of the video for screening purposes only please email us at blurtblanknoise AT gmail.com
We will be announcing future screenings on this page.


8 th March. Call for Blank Noise Action Heroes!


In true Blank Noise spirit , we invite you to participate , join us for the next street action on March 8th and be the Blank Noise Action Hero! This intervention will occur across cities in India- whether you're one person in your city or 100- join in- and build the spirit!

A Blank Noise public intervention requires people to sign up and volunteer. It can be fun, challenging and exciting! So hurry! Write in now, with your city name and we will add you to the list below.

Event details will be 'revealed' to those who write in. It's no fun to spell it out now! Bring your friends and family along. Experience it.

Venue for event will be finalized only with your permission/ participation.

Who is an Action Hero?

An action hero's reaction is not an emotional outburst, but infact a strategy/ a plan/ a choreography. An Action Hero knows how to judge a situation. An Action Hero chooses to confront or not to confront, but at no point ignores/ avoids the problem. Are you one?
Would you like to be an ACTION HERO?

to know about Blank Noise Action Heroes see the following links
1
or 2
or 3



Volunteer names:

Delhi: Abby, Ritambhara, Pooja, Ambika, ChandraShekhar Bhattacharya, Jasmeen

Mumbai: Nisha, Pawan, Sanjana, Aparna, Varsha,

Kolkata: Sunayana, Saptarshi, Poorna Banerjee, Poushali,

Bangalore: Romal, Payal, Hemangini, Amrutha, Ratna,

Chandigarh:

Guwahati:

Patna: Kiran, Parul, Mandavi, Ruchika, Sagorika, Chirantani, Shradha.

Pune: Unmana

Chennai:

Hyderabad

Jaipur:

Lucknow: Aniket

Your city:- any one/ any city

Excuse Me? Are you singing to me?


Tales of Street Love and Lust :
Tales of Street Love and Lust were compiled after bloggers/ blank noise members/ supporters/ Blank Noise agents emailed us what they were referred as/ called on the street by random male strangers.

This is an effort to compile an 'eve teasing' vocabulary. statements will be uploaded here. Food here. (Don't miss the song from Prema Loka- here comes a girl looking like a lemon)
Movie Songs here (objects / descriptors/coming soon!)

If you have been sung to and felt threatened / 'harassed' or even amused- email us at blurtblanknoise@gmail.com . You are welcome to describe the situation and how you felt. We will add the song to this blog post right away! Thankyou!


Haseena Maan Jayegi: I'm sure if I am persistent one day she will be mine.


Khud ko kya samajhti hai: what does she think of herself/ she is arrogant/ let's have some fun guys.

chhai chhappa chhai- (I had short hair and was wearing a white salwar kameez!) The guys tried to follow me for nearly a couple of blocks singing this song.


ek bar aaaja aaaja aajajaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: come to me just once


o priya priya: someone remembering Priya, his love


babuji zara dheere chalo: go slow mister, I am lightening and I am standing here.


Yeh ladki hai! : Oh that girl!


Khambe jaisi Khadi Hai: She stands like a pole/ is she a girl or a firecracker? she has rage in her eyes and her lips are ready to abuse you.



Akhiyon se goli mare, larki kamaal ki: she shoots me with her eyes/ what an amazing woman. she tortures the guy in love with her.


Aati Kya?: will you come with me? to Khandala? We will go dancing, roaming and chill together.


Aaja Meri Gaadi Mein Beth Ja: Come sit on my car!


Hai Hai Mirchi / Uff Uff Mirchi: oh you hot thing!

Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast: You are such an exciting thing!

Bangalore. Feb 11!!

Bangalore/ Sunday/ Feb 11/ the group meets at rest house road at 4 :15 pm.
Please call Blank Noise at 98868 40612 and confirm. Get out! Get it started!



Action Heroes include:

  1. Paige Trabulsi
  2. Surabhi Kukke
  3. Soumya C. Shekhar
  4. Yamini Deen
  5. Manisha Sharma
  6. Kunal Ashok
  7. Naina Brahma
  8. Amrutha Bushan
  9. Ahaana
  10. Archana Srinivasan
  11. Sanjana Janardhan
  12. Anusree M. Jois
  13. Laura Neuhas
  14. leslie
  15. Madhu Krishnan
  16. Isha Manchanda- Video Documentation
  17. Chris
  18. Vishal Talreja
  19. Arati
  20. Tharunya Balan
  21. Chinmayee Dutta
  22. Sujata Bhatt
  23. Mahima
  24. Gayatri
  25. Priya
  26. Suman
  27. Smita Kalburgi
  28. Vivek
  29. Nivedita Kalburgi
  30. Sneha Singh
  31. Nishank Pathak
  32. Nisrin Azeez
  33. Sathish
  34. Navneethan_+
  35. Amit Belani
  36. Vasudha Chandrashekhar
  37. Naini
  38. Anees
  39. Aparupa
  40. Manasi
  41. Urmila
  42. Uditi
  43. Lara
  44. Swati
  45. Ramya
  46. Seema
  47. MunMun
  48. Mallika
  49. Kalavati
  50. Priya
  51. Neeti. G
  52. Nandini C
  53. Tanuja Mukherjee
  54. Sargam
  55. Priyanka Chaurasia
  56. Myrthe
  57. Spriha
  58. Priyanka K
  59. Huda
  60. Sowmya
  61. Pushpi
  62. Tanvi
  63. Dipti
  64. Nilisha
  65. Sira
  66. Divya
  67. Sadhvi
  68. Rutika
  69. Sharvari
  70. Sanaa
  71. Honey
  72. deepika arwind
  73. anna joseph
  74. prachi murarka
  75. nida shabbi
  76. Sharath V
  77. Pallavi
  78. Anamika Mukherjee
  79. Chitra Badrinarayan
  80. Shravanya
  81. Smriti Chanchani
  82. Vishal Thacker
  83. Sumati + 10

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