356
Backers
$13,560
pledged of $12,500 goal
0
seconds to go
Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 28, 2010.
Pledge $5 or more
Your donation will pay for one woman's Hollaback!
Pledge $25 or more
Your donation will pay for 5 Hollabacks!
Pledge $50 or more
Your donation will pay for 20 Hollabacks! You will also get a Hollaback iPhone cover.
Pledge $100 or more
Your donation will pay for 20 Hollabacks! You will also get a Hollaback iPhone cover and an advance copy of the iPhone app before it is on iTunes.
Pledge $250 or more
Your donation will pay for 50 Hollabacks! You will also get a copy of Jessica Valenti's "Full Frontal Feminism" (Hollaback is mentioned inside!) signed by Jessica, and Hollaback co-founders Emily and Oraia. Not to be outdone, you will also recieve a Hollaback iPhone cover and an advance copy of the iPhone app before it is on iTunes.
Pledge $500 or more
Your donation will pay for 50 Hollabacks! You will also get a copy of Holly Kearl's "Stop Street Harassment" with the forward written by Hollaback co-founders Emily and Oraia. The book will be signed by Holly, Emily, and Oraia and is in stores August 2010. Not to be outdone, you will also recieve a Hollaback iPhone cover and an advance copy of the iPhone app before it is on iTunes.
Pledge $1,000 or more
You are a HOLLAhero. You have made it possible for 200 women to Hollaback. You are a leader, and we want the world to know it. Your name will be listed on our site, you will get regular updates on how we are spending your money to make tremendous social change, and of course, you will get an advance copy of the iPhone app. To top it all off, you will receive a trophy with your name on it, designating that you are a HOLLAhero so you can look at it every morning and think about the world-shaking change you've made in the lives of so many women.
Project By
Has not connected their Facebook account.
Oraia Reid and Emily May are nationwide experts on public safety for girls, women and the LGBTQ community. Oraia is executive director and founder of RightRides for Women's Safety and Emily is co-founder of HollabackNYC.com. RightRides for Women’s Safety (www.rightrides.org), is an award-winning nonprofit whose flagship RightRides program offers free, late-night rides home to women and LGBTQ individuals in NYC and is currently expanding nationwide. HollabackNYC (www.HollabackNYC.com) is a website with 8 chapters worldwide that is dedicated to ending street harassment by giving girls and women the opportunity to submit stories and pictures of their street harassers to an online blog.
Oraia and Emily are frequent commentators in the media, appearing as sources over sixty times, including ABC, CNN, NBC, the New York Times, and authoring op-eds in national papers. Oraia has executive education certificates from Harvard and Columbia's Business Schools and is a Junior Fellow at the Nonprofit Leadership Development Institute. Emily has a MS in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, is a winner of the 2008 Stonewall Women's Award, is a Progressive Women's Voices Fellow, and is co-chair of the Board of Directors for Girls for Gender Equity. Emily was recently selected as one of thirty ''women making history'' by the Women's Media Center, along with Rachel Maddow and Nancy Pelosi.
I'm not sure what is so specific to the LGBT... whatever else the initials were, about harassment, but I guess all types of people get harassed. Anyways, there are laws. Rape is illegal, and the laws everywhere I've ever lived are pretty damn strict about harassment. In fact, I challenge you to look them up. If you and I are in the same room (so I can prove that we have met, and that there was opportunity) I can simply shake your hand and leave. Get home, call the police and have charges of assault brought against you. This happened to me. I spent a week in jail, my parents home had to have a lein put on it for my bond as the court would not accept cash, check, credit, a car, bank note, anything but a mortgage lein assuming we had $xxx in equity already established. It cost me personally $12K and took a year for it all to go away. My charges were eventually dismissed and it never went to trial. I even had the support of the DA but alas they are a slave to the system as well.
If I had not had the support of my family for the bond I would have sat in jail for 6 months only to have 2 judges throw out the bogus charges in hearings and finally to interview with a grand jury before having the last amendment dismissed. Sweet huh? There goes my job, my income, my classes. I actually think the laws are too strict.
NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG- I am actually in support of a mobile 'on your person' method of reporting, capturing, preventing the kind of behavior you are talking about. Not to sound too whatever I am about to sound like, but why not instead just get the persons name (smile and bat an eyelash) then call the police and press charges against the person?? That actually works, an app just might make you feel better/safer/more responsible or something, but actually legal justice I THINK is the only way.
Or carry a weapon, it doesn't have to be a gun if you're anti-gun.
I've been afraid to shake girls hands who I've just met ever since.
THE ONLY PROBLEM is that you and I are both correct. I am correct in that all someone has to do is "just say it" and bam! The perp is locked up, treated guilty and pays through the nose before anyone starts digging around.
You are correct in that it's really not safe to walk around in a lot of places and that filing a police report doesn't do you any good when you just got punched in the gut and are frantically scrambling to prevent what is about to happen next. This app is a good idea, but so is a weapon. Pro-active self-defense- don't be caught being the victim.
Geez, isn't it sad that this is what it comes too? We are having a philosophical discussion on how to keep yourself safe, WTF.
Yes, Android please!
I am with Michaela. I really hope Android phones get a version of this app. Pitched in my two cents :D Thank you for working so hard!
I 'm not a new yorker by any means, and I think this app is a great idea! even if it only works in NYC, I'm proud to support ending street harassment anywhere!
Hey everyone-- just a reminder that you can connect with Hollaback! on facebook, myspace, and twitter!
Find us at: facebook.com/ihollaback, myspace.com/hollabacknyc, and twitter.com/ihollaback. And remember- our main site is ihollaback.org!
Thanks for all of your support.
Being an Android user, I was disappointed to see that this was just for iPhones. But then I reminded myself that you have to start somewhere, so I went ahead and pitched in and will just have to wait my turn. (I promise to only be a teeny bit impatient. Honest.) I look forward first to the day when we have this handy app for all phones and then to the day when we no longer need them.
I LOVE this project! This is is the perfect example of how we can make a difference using every day tools we have access to. Doing something about pervs and street harassment is necessary, but so often, it feels like "you against the world" and too overwhelming/scary/dis-empowering. This will put power back in OUR hands!