Proud of everyone who turned up for the Nakba march today. In a time where hatred is getting louder, so are the people standing for humanity, solidarity and justice.
And while Tommy Ten-Names and his little band of professional outrage were off doing what they do best, thousands chose community over division.
#HopeNotHate 🍉
Back in 2017, I started Catcalls of London after coming across a brilliant project in New York that used chalk to write women and girls experiences of public sexual harassment and assault in the exact places that they happened.
I brought it to London thinking I might get a handful of stories. Over the course of the next five years, I received nearly 28,000. From London alone.
The last time I broke down the statistics, they were pretty harrowing.
70% were experienced by girls under 18.
48% while wearing a school uniform.
96% of perpetrators were adult men.
Almost every single person who reported said it changed how they moved through public spaces – what they wore, the routes they took, the times they went out – and that it had a direct impact on their confidence and sense of safety. So when people try to minimise this – call it banter, say it’s harmless, say it’s exaggerated – it’s not just wrong, it’s incredibly dishonest.
That campaign changed the direction of everything I do. It connected me with brilliant women who helped with chalking these experiences, with survivors, activists, and young girls who are navigating this daily. It led to a petition to Parliament, educating within schools, working with the police (and, at times, getting a fair few telling offs from them for chalking on public pavements.), with local councils, businesses, and with people responsible for how our public spaces are designed and managed.
It also came with the darker side – online abuse, harassment, and being doxxed for simply amplifying what women and girls were already saying.
It’s informed a huge part of the work I do now in security and safeguarding.
So today matters.
From today, police are being given stronger powers to tackle public sexual harassment, with a new offence covering intentional harassment based on sex – from obscene comments to threats of sexual violence and intimidation in public spaces.
Because behind every statistic I’ve shared are real moments of intimidation and fear – on the way to school, on the bus home, walking down the street – that stay with people.
And for every story written and chalked, there are countless more that never were.
“I’m willing to live with that.”
They killed 184 schoolgirls.
They used a “double tap” strike - a method documented used by Itsnotreal in Gaza , where an initial strike is followed by a second one after emergency responders arrive.
Forty minutes later, the site was bombed again.
This was no accident. These are decisions. Strategic ones. Made by men playing very real war games with other people’s children.
Imagine, for a moment, if 184 schoolgirls were killed in the US or the UK.
Can you picture the outrage?
The wall-to-wall coverage.
The speeches about barbarism.
But when the victims are brown girls in another country, the world shrugs and moves on.
We are living in a time where war crimes happen in plain sight and we shrug and move on.
There is so much to say about what is happening globally right now, and I can’t unpack all of it here.
But I will say this:
In a world full of Trumps, be more Sean McCreesh - and hold power to account.
‘Tis the season.
These self-described “gentlemen” were hitting on a woman who was inebriated. When her friend clocked what was happening and stepped in, this was the reaction.
Funny how quickly “nice guys” get angry when their predatory behaviour is called out.
Someone slid into my DMs recently just to ask: “Has this just become a man-hating account?”
I’m a PERSON who hates misogyny, patriarchy, racism, ignorance, injustice, bad-faith arguments, and deeply stupid messages.
And honestly? I’m fucking tired.
Some of what I hate involves men.
Some of it involves women.
Some of it involves politicians, tech giants, Zionists, anti-choice movements, and anyone punching down while pretending they’re neutral. I hate the current climate that’s emboldened people like this who think there is no consequence for this kind of behaviour.
What I love is community.
People who are trying to do good in this very fucked up world.
People who speak up.
People who hold others to account.
Also dogs.
Hope that clears it up.
Anyway - just to keep things balanced - here’s a white woman being a racist PoS, and men and women together shutting that down… exactly as it should be.
Yes, the Diddy documentary matters. Yes, the survivors deserve to be heard. But 50 Cent is not the hero in the story. This is a man who leaked a woman’s intimate images, mocked her publicly, and then filed bankruptcy instead of owning what he did. Misogyny doesn’t become activism just because it happens to expose someone worse.
Ok I couldn't even wait until tomorrow to record this I'm raging so much.
Now that this case is public, we can finally say the quiet part out loud:
Kevin Proctor stalked his ex-partner with the help of a private investigations firm — and the justice system responded with a £300 fine.
We need accountability not just for offenders, but for the professionals who enable them.
Love and solidarity to @nicola.h0lt - it's not easy to go through the process of holding men to account but you did it! ❤️
I’m not usually one for response videos like this, but this man’s content is giving full incel energy. When someone publicly complains that women won’t greet them on isolated trails, they’re telling you exactly why they’re not a safe man.
Share share share.
Do you know this man? Victoria line last night from Oxford Circus to Seven Sisters this man was staring at OP and touching himself, then proceeded to follow her when she got off the train. She is safe and it has been reported to BTP.
Share his face far and wide and get in touch if you recognise him or have had similar experiences with him.
