You Don’t Need to Know My Name: Sydnie Mosley on Unwanted Flirting

Yesterday, BCRW Alumna Fellow Sydnie Mosley ’07 wrote on her blog about how her work on The Window Sex Project has changed the way she interprets unwanted sexualized interactions:

This is what the looks and the comments on the street do. This is what the large, ambiguous category of interaction we’ve labeled harassmentdoes. It makes me feel uncomfortable. It prompts me to make different choices which aren’t true to my own desires. It makes me want to hide – to be invisible.

Above, Sydnie, The Window Sex Project dancers, and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies R. L’Heureux Lewis discuss street harassment, masculinity, homophobia, internalized oppression and community organizing following a performance of The Window Sex Project at Barnard in April. Related:

• The Window Sex Project at Barnard
• Hollaback! Feminist Responses to Street Harassment
• The Window Sex Project Program (PDF)