Am 8. March is International Women's Day and this year will also be in Kassel again called for a symbolic strike. Since Sunday, small actions have taken place every day under the motto “8 days of feminist revolt”, around for the 8. March to mobilize. One of them was the common "chalking up" of sexually suggestive comments, so-called catcalls. This followed about on Wednesday 20 People calling @catcallsofkassel.
A contribution by Arthur Becker
Den Instagram-Channel @catcallsofkassel Laura and two friends have only been running this for a few months. Other users can send in their experiences there. Your claim is, "to chalk" every incident there, where it happened. Although there are now three of them, they hardly make it, process all messages received. Just about 40 Incidents open. Most of them are sent in by women, although there were men among them, tells Laura.
From the forecourt of the main train station, you can first go to popular party locations. The path also leads - rather by chance - past the Friedenshof. There was only in November 2019 feminist protests against a meeting of Christian anti-abortionists.
At each stop, Laura reads out a brief explanation of the incident that has been submitted, the times laughter, sometimes causes collective disgust.
With these "chalk" actions, at least temporarily, visible in public space, what otherwise remains invisible. So dip the unpleasant sayings, the women are thrown at the head, in the Cityscape back on. Everything is meticulously documented for Instagram and reaches even more people there.
Laura and her friends want to get on with their project Clues, that sexual harassment is commonplace and in public places takes place, and is a social problem. Against this, too the protests on 8. March.
