Global Voices has a post on The Blank Noise Project, which seeks to confront “eve teasing” in India.
“Eve-teasing” is a term that is used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for sexual harassment or molestation in the street. The Blank Noise Project, which was first started by an art student six years ago, aims to confront street harassment and change public perceptions of it.
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Blank Noise started as a final year student project by art student Jasmeen Patheja in 2003, and was a personal response to street sexual harassment, which many Indians, male and female, accept as normal or try to ignore. The project initially focused on small workshops, but has since developed into a network of groups around India, who use street interventions, public art and blogging to explore the issue of harassment.
Earlier this year Blank Noise set up a blog for men called Blank Noise Guy:
Blank Noise is terribly interested in men!
The Blank Noise Guy blog is in its first phase, asking men/boys to respond to street sexual harassment. send us your thoughts on street sexual harassment. write to us if you’ve seen it and are feeling thoughtful about how you responded, or even if you engaged with it or caused it (knowingly or unknowingly).
One of the blog posts up at bnguy is of this Bollywood outtake that basically glorifies ‘eve teasing’: “She has come to the college to study…See friends, what does she think of herself…I have taken an oath that I will break her pride,” sings the leader of a male gang who is following and harassing the female lead.