May 25, 7pm: “Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue” release party!
When: May 25, 2013, 7pm
Where: Locust Moon Comics, 34 S 40th Street
Why: The comic book has been printed, and we can’t wait to share it with you!
Meet us at Locust Moon Comics (34 S 40th Street, right off the Market-Frankford line 40th street exit) for the first reveal of “Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue”, before we take it to Philadelphia Wizard Con May 30-June 2.
Artist Erin Filson will be there to sign copies, and the HollabackPHILLY team will be there with her to talk about future programming and next steps. Enjoy a glass of wine and some delicious snacks to help us celebrate!
We’ll also be talking about anti-harassment teams for Wizard Con 2013 here in Philly May 30-June 2, and at San Diego Comic Con 2014. We’d love for you to join us in starting the conversation about safer conventions for everyone who wants to attend, in costume or otherwise. Stop by and talk to us about it, or feel free to email or post on our Facebook page if you’d like more information!
RSVP on the Facebook event page so we are sure to have enough wine!
If you donated to the campaign to help make this comic book a reality, meet us at the event to get your rewards levels (instead of waiting until we ship them at the end of June)! Bonus Perk: get your limited edition prints signed if you were a $100+ donor! Want in on the rewards levels? Head over to philly.ihollaback.org/comic to learn more!
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Happy Birthday to our favorite local activist, Nuala Cabral!
Join us in wishing the happiest of birthdays to fierce local activist, Nuala Cabral, working tirelessly alongside other activists to make Philadelphia, and this world, a better and more just place. Nuala is an educator, activist, and film maker who has made some powerful social justice films. One of her films, Walking Home, is a powerful and eloquent response to street harassment, and it is our go-to anti-street harassment film. Watch it below:
Co-Founder of FAAN Mail, Fostering Activism and Alternatives Now) she also focuses much of her work around media literacy. As defined on FAAN Mail’s website,
According to the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media. Anyone can do media literacy. It can happen in classrooms and in your every day life. Media literacy is a tool we use to help us navigate a media saturated world. It helps us be more informed consumers who advocate for change.
To that end, Nuala works with high school students at POPPYN as they make films “news report” style, she has appeared on HuffPo live multiple times, and FAAN Mail hosts “talk backs” that help break down the media by which we are surrounded, and demanding accountability from the media creators. The talk backs have mobilized hundreds of people and contributed to corporations responding to the criticisms and withdrawing their support of specific artists and/or offensive songs. She has also used her film, “Who’s that girl?”, which discusses women of color and hip-hop, in her media literacy work around hip-hop music.
She is beyond impressive, and I am so happy to call her my friend. Though she has achieved so much, and has seen so much aggression, she still approaches her activism from such a positive, un-angry place. That approach makes her energy magnetic, and whenever we partner with her for street-activism in Philly, it is no surprise so many people show up to play a part. I personally have grown so much from knowing her, as my activism is often from a place of anger. Seeing her lead by an example that is free from judgment has helped temper my anger quite a bit, which really facilitates engaging men in discussions about gender-based violence, broadening the discussions I’m able to have about our work here at HollabackPHILLY. I could keep talking about how amazing she and her efforts are, but better to let her work speak for itself!
So, check out Nuala’s amazing work, follow FAAN Mail on Facebook and Twitter, and join in the next time you have the opportunity. She is amazing, and you will want to be a part of her work here in Philadelphia!
–Rochelle
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Calendar Alerts: Launch party and Philadelphia Wizard Con 2013
It’s finally here! Join us at Locust Moon Comics, Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 7:00pm for the premiere release of our comic book! Register at the Facebook Event Page: “Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue” Comic Book Launch Party!
Wizard World Convention details:
We’ll have a table in Artist’s Alley, and we will be carrying around 16BitSirens’ “Cosplay =/= consent” signs to take pictures with various people in Cosplay, while talking to them about harassment at conventions.
- Want to join our anti-harassment team? Email us at Philly@ihollaback.org, or stop by our table in Artist’s Alley during the convention!
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Video Tour: Philadelphia’s Anti Street Harassment 2013 Chalk Walk
Talented local film student, Kara Lieff, created a video tour of the chalk walk portion of Philadelphia’s Anti Street Harassment 2013 actions. Participants that day included representatives from Poppyn, GALS, FAAN Mail, Philly Youth Poetry Movement, Philadelphia Futures, and other local Philadelphians invested in ending street harassment. Checkout her other films about street harassment here and here.
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Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue featured on Huffington Post’s new “Half the Sky” landing page!
Anna Kegler, HollabackPHILLY’s Media Projects Coordinator, wrote an article as part of the RaiseforWomen Challenge, a joint campaign between The Huffington Post, the Half the Sky Movement and the Skoll Foundation to raise funds and recognize NGOs that are empowering women. This campaign involves a new Half the Sky landing page at The Huffington Post’s website with targeted articles and news.
An excerpt of Anna’s article is below, but head over to HuffPo to read the full post!
…The message of Half the Skyis that we all have to work together to end these problems, and every person’s effort makes a difference.
At the time I saw the documentary, HollabackPHILLY was just starting to work on developing an anti-street harassment comic book in partnership with Philly artist Erin Filson. During the fundraising phase of this project, we had many people ask us “Why is this important?” Our response? Being harassed on the street reduces girls, women and LGBT folks to objects, causes fear,and restricts their movements in public spaces. …
If you’re interested in the comic book, stay tuned! Erin is putting the final touches on the cover and we should be sending it to the printers late next week! We expect to have it available mid-to-late June for general sale! If you don’t want to wait that long, you can pre-order a signed copy and your copy will be in the first shipments at the beginning of June!
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OUR COMIC BOOK IS GOING TO PRINT!!!!!
We are a few days late in posting, but almost overnight we went from a little over halfway to our goal, to having met our goal and well on the way to meeting our fundraising goal for taking the comic to Comic Con 2014!! Now, with the campaign ending Monday, March 25, we’re a little over $200 away from the Comic Con 2014 goal.
All three of us are speechless with happiness and gratitude. A huge thank-you to you, our friends, family, and fellow fighters in the movement to end street harassment. Scroll to the bottom for the exclusive sneak peak of a page from Blue’s section as a token of our appreciation!!
THANK YOU!
We’re not giving up now… it’s on to our “stretch” goals! If we raise $6,516, we can take our project on the road to Comic Con 2014 in San Diego, and represent women creators of women- and LGBT-focused comics in a setting where that sort of discussion is rare. We are almost to that goal! If we meet and surpass $6,516, and make it to $7,500, we will be able to afford developing and providing a platform to share our comic book and the corresponding workshop curriculum with educators outside the Hollaback! network, and expand the reach of this effort. We aim big over here at HollabackPHILLY! Here we go!
-Rochelle, Anna & Erin
P.S. We are actively working to spread the word, and were honored to be interviewed by Glamour Magazine last week!
Drum roll please —- the long awaited page from Blue’s section of the book!
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We just made it past the halfway mark! Your support means the world to us!
We just made it past the halfway mark! Thank you for your generosity, both in donating and in spreading the word to your families and friends. It means the world to us!
Erin is hard at work creating gorgeous illustrations, and we are almost finished revising the script. It’s really coming together now, and we’re beyond excited. Stay tuned – we will be posting more sneak-peak drawings soon.
-Rochelle, Anna & Erin
Round-up of some comic book related posts this week:
Good video snapshot of the ways women are pushed away from the comic book world (Reposted from DC Women Kicking Ass!)
http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/44252245721/all-the-reasons-comic-book-men-is-the-worst-pr-for
Who are your favorite women/LGBT friendly comics? We love Batwoman, Wonderwoman, Rogue, and Storm – but would love to expand our reading list to less mainstream comics. Share your faves in the comments!
- People suggested Promethea and Octopus Pie
- Do you have any suggestions to add? Put them in the comments!
We are so excited about “Wonder Women, The Untold Story of American Superheroines!” The trailer looks amazing: http://bit.ly/YU72mb.
Coming to the Philadelphia area (Westchester, specifically) soon!: http://ow.ly/i4O5w
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“Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue.” Street Harassment Meets Comic Books.
Hollaback: Red, Yellow, Blue, a set on Flickr.
We have had an incredible amount of in-kind support on this comic book, from Erin Filson donating her superior artist skills, to numerous people volunteering their time to translate the final comic book into Spanish, Farsi, German, Romanian, French, Hebrew, Korean and hopefully more as the campaign progresses, to Rochelle and Anna hard at work on publicity, publishing, and fundraising. Now we need your help to bring the comic to life! Our goal is to raise $5,000. In addition to an initial publishing cost of $4,000 (2,000 copies) and setting up a table with merchandise at Philadelphia’s Comic Book Convention ($500), we will be using the funds for the following:
- Shipping our books to Hollaback! branches in 62 cities and 25 countries around the world, and working with those branches to translate the comic
- Funding educational workshops to teach youth about street harassment Developing an online, interactive version of the comic (choose your own adventure style!)
- Making copies of the book available at local and online comic book stores as a woman-centered and created book, to provide more options for an inclusive and empowered comic book world If we raise more than the requested $5,000, we will be able to:
- Further promote the comic book and online version at comic book stores and conventions to increase visibility and help break down sexism in the comic book world
- Provide a platform to share our comic book and the corresponding workshop curriculum with educators outside the Hollaback! network, and expand the reach of this effort
Any funds that we receive from selling the comic book in stores and online will go directly towards our mission of creating more educational workshops, and expanding that curriculum beyond just the 2013-2014 school year, as is currently planned and budgeted for.
Any amount you can give is sincerely appreciated, since even the smallest amount will help us make this comic book. If you’re strapped for cash, we completely understand and would be very grateful if you could help by doing any of the following:
- Personally contact (email, text, call, Facebook message) 2-3 friends who you think might give $5 or more to our project.
- Post about our project on your Facebook page.
- Follow HollabackPHILLY on Facebook and Twitter for updates and share/retweet.
- If you can refer us to anyone who can help, we’d love all the help we can get!
- If you can offer an in-kind service or discount in the form of printing/shipping costs, supplies, translation, web-design, etc. please let us know.
- If you could help us get press for our project (newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc.) we would be most grateful!
Thank you so much for your support!
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(Long Overdue) Event Recap: SlutwalkPhilly, October 20, 2012
On October 20, 2012, starting at Clark Park in West Philadelphia at 11am, people marched to Love Park in support of and solidarity with survivors of sexual assault, and marched against rape culture. There were some great speeches, and an overall feeling of solidarity and empowerment that accompanied the day’s event. HollabackPHILLY had a table at the event and collected survivor stories, to help give a voice to their reality similar to our efforts against street harassment.
STAY TUNED: The stories will be posted in a separate post soon with photographs of the original written stories! Thank you to all the brave survivors who are speaking out, helping us take down rape culture one brick, and story, at a time!
Below are HollabackPHILLY’s LiveTweet recaps:
20 OctHollabackPhilly Don’t forget!
@slutwalkphilly 11am today at Clark Park, march to Love Park, w/ meet up spot half way at 31st and Market http://ow.ly/eB31O20 Oct@slutwalkphilly. Now male ally talking about male integrity and respect.#vaw20 Oct
HollabackPhilly spreading the word against#streetharassment at Love Park.@SlutwalkPhilly speeches now. pic.twitter.com/MmAw7Lxj11:49 AM – 20 Oct 12 ·
20 Oct
Despite the criticisms, Philadelphians gathered here in love park demanding respect & creating safe spaces to share our stories warms my <3.
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HollabackPHILLY Joins Various UN Affiliated Organizations for February 19 Day of Action
On February 19 we will reach out to local legislators in an attempt to collaborate on ways to make Philadelphia a safer place, one that is less permissive of gender-based violence.
Check out the other global organizations and their commitments to partnering with legislators and policy makers to better their communities! View the map here.
Delhi and Beyond: Concrete Action for Safer Cities
On Tuesday, February 19, we (the Huairou Commission, Women in Cities International, Women and Habitat Network Latin America, Jagori, GROOTS International, ICWIF and FEMUM-ALC) are calling upon feminist organizations and grassroots women’s groups to participate in a global day of action, Delhi and Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities. On this day, women and local authorities will jointly sign agreements identifying a concrete action they will advance to make their city safer for women and girls.
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