Reclaim the Streets around Universities!
As we mourn the death of Sarah Everard, all women are recounting their experience(s) of fear on finding themselves alone in the dark on a street being followed by a man. Inevitably, I found myself doing the same. As it's the last day of Women's History Month, I'm sharing the following: Here’s what happened to me on Wednesday, 20th January 2010 while a 1st year philosophy uni student, aged 23: After my evening lectures at university (6pm-8pm), I leave the building with the male lecturer to discuss the issues I raised with a PhD student the previous day, in short: harassment and stalking (his word) problems I'm experiencing at uni; a fake profile on a p**n dating website in my name; a photographer randomly taking a photo of me while I'm having a substitute tutorial with my tutorial tutor/a PhD student in a cafe. After the lecture, he told me that the PhD student had told him about it and that we should discuss it further in the street. So, after he spoke to several ...