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Women's commission suggests dress code in MP

Lengthen the skirts, control the crime?

Link from Amit Varma over at India Uncut

WATCH OUT !

Blank Noise Project will be featured on Times Now , news channel.

Saturday, July 1st at 10 30 pm. The story will be featured in a programme called ' All About Her'.

The same episode will be repeated in the next week on
Wednesday at 4.30 p.m. and on Saturday at 2.00 p.m.

Rape or not?

he got very drunk one night and woke up to realise that she had sex with someone in a corridor and could not remember whether or not she had consented to it. The man in question says she was aware they were having intercourse. She says she wasn't. So she files a case and the judge says - drunken consent is still consent. And therefore, rules that she was not raped.

The case has sparked off a tizzy.

What's your take? Rape? Drunken sex? Fair judgement?

METER CHECK!

counting.......180 CLOTHES!!!

Our recent contributors include:

Abhishek Baxi, Delhi has gathered 4 clothes

Annie Zaidi, Delhi brought in 3

Ridhima Rana- our volunteer in Chandigarh got 8

Siddarth Mukun Srivastava, Ghaziabad got one garment

Svetha Venkatraman, Delhi collected 2 garments

Keep sending them in! 2 months more to go!
Our Delhi number is (98374 85284)

Dispersing testimonials - Mumbai

Blank Noise Mumbai will disperse testimonials on Sunday June 25 near Linking Road in Bandra.

We will meet at Just Around The Corner, Bandra, at 5.30 pm.

Please email blanknoisemumbai@gmail.com to confirm your participation.

And please, please bring your contribution to 'Did you ask for it'


Other cities that have staged this intervention:

• Delhi
• Chennai
• Hyderabad
• Bangalore

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FOR MEET UP ANNOUNCEMENTS IN YOUR CITY

Blank Noise Bangalore meets on Friday the 5th of May at 6 pm to plan a street intervention scheduled for the following Sunday ( 5-7 pm). This event will also work with texts from the blogathon.
You are invited to attend and participate in this event. Your participation will strengthen the impact of what we want to say, and how we can say it.
Another part of the meeting will discuss and distribute campaign material for clothes project DID YOU ASK FOR IT .
The meeting will be held at the Blank Noise Studio . Please email and confirm your participation.
For questions such as " BUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO ACTUALLY DO? " : I sincerely request you to attend the meeting.
Email: blurtblanknoise@gmail.com or phone me at 98868 40612
FOR INFORMATION ON MEET UPS IN MUMBAI, DELHI, BANGALORE, CHENNAI AND HYDERABAD CLICK HERE. (the same is posted on the side bar in green.)

Dear Stranger

There were some intimate moments on the streets of Bangalore this evening.

Alka, Chitra, Pritesh, Ratna, Vidya, Yamini dispersed testimonials from the Blank Noise blogathon as letters addressed to strangers on the street. These letters were given to people who reacted to the gaze of the participants in performance.

(Balaji distributed the Blank Noise bilingual pamphlets alongside)

Twenty different testimonials, randomly selected from blogathon entries.

The letters were hand folded and given to the few chosen ones on in the public. Anyone who made eye contact, walked upto the participants, asked a question got this little note instead thus creating intimate moments, secrecy, surprise, shock?

Each letter was a different blogger's testimony.

The letters read as:

Dear Stranger,
Coming back from college, if the bus was too crowded, I used to try and walk the seven kilometer stretch. Even in the bloody summers. Even when I kept away from the crowded bus, and walked - some asshole would drive by, roll down his window, and ask persistently if I wanted a lift. No. I'll give you a lift. No. Please come. No. Come you bitch. No. Walk. Five minutes later - another car. No. No. No.
So are you victim, perpetrator or mute spectator to eve teasing?
Sincerely,
Just another girl.

or

Dear Stranger,
NOT GLARING AT EVERY PASSERBY SUSPICIOUSLY CAN BE INTERPRETED AS AN INVITATION
So are you victim, perpetrator or mute spectator to eve teasing?
Sincerely,
Hyper women amidst 'fathers', 'husbands' and 'brothers' .


The next intervention is in Majestic bus stand, Bangalore. We are meeting on Sunday 14th May to get it going.

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