BLANK NOISE MEETING IN YOUR CITY- 30TH JUNE

Because you emailed us and told us all about 'eve teasing' in your city. Because you believe it's time we did something!


Are you in:

Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Lucknow, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Cochin and Lahore/ Pakistan.

This 30th of June,Saturday we open the project to you by inviting you to participate in the next Blank Noise meet.
This meeting attempts to bring about and document a discussion about street sexual harassment/ eve teasing in the cities. It also
initiates a process following which the Blank Noise communities will intervene in the streets of their cities.

The street intervention will take place 2 weeks from the 30th of June- July 7th. The intervention idea will develop from a 2 week process the new team follows.

The meeting will re introduce you to Blank Noise/ history/ future/ present. It will be moderated by volunteers from your cities.

Blank Noise is open to everyone. Blank Noise is open to people from different age groups. Please be there if you are:

Have experienced street sexual harassment.
Have caused street sexual harassment.
Have witnessed street sexual harassment.
If you do not have 2 week commitment phobia :)
If you have never dealt with it
If you think you can deal with it
If you ignore it
If you are curious
and most importantly: if you are willing to listen, share and understand.

This will be our first meet in Lucknow, Lahore, Cochin!
The third meet in Kolkata
millionth meet in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad
+millionth meet in Bangalore and Delhi

The cities have been selected based on the emails we have received from people wanting to initiate Blank Noise there.

Join us as we renew/ recyle/ repeat/ refresh/ re start/ re birth/ re juvenate/ exchange

To participate email us at blurtblanknoise@gmail.com subject titled BLANK NOISE MEET- 'CITY NAME' Please email us asap so that we can add your name to the blog and confirm your participation. Do send us your contact details- phone no. too and a little note about yourself.

Bring along friends, neighbours, family!

See you!

Blank Noise Team

Number-plated memory

Young man. Striped shirt. Big-ish car... cannot tell which make; never cared enough about models and names.

Young man leans out to ask for directions. The rest is a familiar, old story.

'Where is PVR Saket?'
'Do you live around here?'
'Would you like to come with me to PVR?'

And after I say 'No', he says, 'Fucking bitch'.

I stop, turn around, take a good, long look at him. No words. I glance down at his number plate, and walk on ahead.

He follows.

'Excuse me, ma'am. Sorry, ma'am.'

Whoever was driving HR29 Q 1782, on Monday evening, June 18th, 2007, is not a very nice young man. The apology was not accepted.

[Cross-posted on known turf]

Night Action Plan 3!

It's Delhi again!

Be part of our 3rd Night Action Plan. The group meets at 7 pm at CP Barista, M block on Sunday
(tomorrow) June 17th.

The activity will conclude by 10 pm... come along and bring your friends/ family too!

The act requires you to be quick/ fast and spontaneous. It isn't acrobatic- just adventurous.

To confirm email us at blurtblanknoise@gmail.com.

What do you want?

Some want to walk across the moon. Some just want to walk in the rain.

Some want to touch a stranger. Some want not to be touched by strangers.

Some want to stretch their arms, high, over their heads. Some want not to shave.


Some months ago, the women spoke up about what they wanted from their cities. Their dreams, their fantasies about public spaces. Their responses were documented as ' I wish, I want, I believe.'

Now, it is the men's turn. We want to know what you want from the city, and we especially want to hear what you want from women in public spaces. What do you wish, want, dream, desire? Tell us by leaving a comment here, or sending an email to blurtblanknoise@gmail.com

You can be anonymous, if you choose.

BLANK NOISE KOLKATA

Blank Noise started in Kolkata this May! This means we have started group discussions, created a google group and are ready to take on the first phase-

that of listening and documentating testimonials of men and women in this city,

You could be anyone, any age, write to us at blurtblanknoise@gmail.com if you want to be part of the Kolkata Blank Noise community.

To be part of the Kolkata mailing list sign up at :

Current web address:http://groups.google.co.in/group/bnpkolkata/
Current email address:bnpkolkata@googlegroups.com

making your city safe for me

TO DO

google: ban on women in karnataka

BLANK NOISE IN KOLKATA!

You are invited to attend the first Blank Noise meeting in Kolkata

Saturday 12th May
4 45 pm at T3- Park Street

Please let me know if you will be there...and do bring along anyone who might be interested.

blurtblanknoise@gmail.com to enquire or confirm
My temporary calcutta no. is 990311 9885

Looking forward to seeing you!

Jasmeen for Blank Noise

MAY 12-15 WE NEVER ASKED FOR IT- BUILDING CLOTHES INSTALLATION IN DELHI.

Blank Noise in association with PSBT invites you to participate in building WE NEVER ASK FOR IT.

WE NEVER ASK FOR IT asks you to take a stand, and believe that you never 'provoked' someone to violate you. We ask you to bring garments you wore when sexually violated / 'teased', harassed on the streets. Each given garment is a witness and a testimonial to the incident. Blank Noise has been receiving clothes from the public over the last year. When we have received 1000 garments we will install them on the streets of cities.

We look forward to seeing you and the garment soon at India Habitat Center between the 12th and the 15th of May.

For those of you who can hand in garments before the opening date, please contact us at blurtblanknoise@gmail.com or call Amit Kendurkar at 9313373881

This installation is part of PSBT'S " International Festival on Gender and Sexuality ", which is beginning on May 12th 2007 at Indian Habitat Center.
Steins Auditorium at Indian Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

We are also looking out for volunteers to help put this installation up and ready. You could volunteer to collect clothes from friends/ relatives anyone!

You could also volunteer your time between the 12th and 15th.

So be there, and bring your clothes along!

UNWANTED. SECTION 354

because I hate to keep you in suspense I am writing about what happened a month after I put these photos up!

bus from kerala to karnataka. I need to get to my seat. The man standing in front of me wont move and let me get to my seat. I say" excuse me? "/ " solpa side please?!"/

He gives me the blank look after which I direct my hands in a manner that indicates he must move a little away from me so that I can reach my seat. After all, the last thing I need to do is get my body brushed against a stranger's- especially when there is no dirth of space.

He succumbs but hisses a " zzzxsssk!" staring my anatomy into little pieces.

In less than 3 minutes I realize that he has the seat in front of me. The seats recline, the hands recline even further.

All between him and me is the needle.

Shall we go out?

More on Jagori's Safe City audit report... here.