Kathryn Travers & Ayesha Vemuri on Reclaiming Urban Space small talks & city blocks
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- Society & Culture
We spoke to Kathryn Travers, the director of Women in Cities International, and Ayesha Vemuri, a researcher on rape culture and the social media practices of feminist activists in India, about the important work being done by Blank Noise to reclaim urban space, the parallels between street harassment and resistance in different global contexts, and about the complexities of social media and technologies as tools in movements to end street harassment.
We spoke to Kathryn Travers, the director of Women in Cities International, and Ayesha Vemuri, a researcher on rape culture and the social media practices of feminist activists in India, about the important work being done by Blank Noise to reclaim urban space, the parallels between street harassment and resistance in different global contexts, and about the complexities of social media and technologies as tools in movements to end street harassment.
24 min