BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:204426@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260826T073946Z DTSTART:20260916T193000Z DTEND:20260916T203000Z SUMMARY:Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the U nited States —\\; Molly M. Brookfield in conversation with Cristen C onger DESCRIPTION:This event takes place on Crowdcast\\, Charis’\\; virtua l event platform. This event is free\\, but registration is required. Reg ister here –\\; https://www.crowdcast.io/c/watching-the-girls-go-by\ \nCharis welcomes Molly M. Brookfield in conversation with Cristen Conger for a celebration of Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Haras sment in the United States\\, the first book-length history of the phenom enon we know today as street harassment.\\nOgling\\, catcalling\\, wolf-w histling: such everyday intrusions from male strangers have greeted Ameri can women from their first forays into urban space. Watching the Girls Go By is the first book-length history of the phenomenon we know today as s treet harassment. Spanning more than a century\\, from the 1860s to the 1 980s\\, this book reveals how street harassment became normalized as part of urban life and restricted women’\\;s freedom of movement through the city.\\nHistorian Molly M. Brookfield charts how American social and cultural discourses cast behaviors like catcalling as the natural entitl ement of white\\, middle-class men\\, while scapegoating and punishing me n of color and working-class men as the stereotypical–\\;and suppose dly more dangerous–\\;harassers. She mines a rich archive of newspap er reports\\, popular culture\\, women’\\;s writings\\, public polic y\\, and more to uncover how class\\, race\\, and gender shaped Americans ’\\; experiences of public space\\, including who claimed a “\\ ;right”\\; to women’\\;s bodies\\, who was seen as a sexual thr eat\\, and how women fought back against harassment. Watching the Girls G o By challenges readers to reckon with how the long history and lasting i mpact of the seemingly trivial intrusions that constitute street harassme nt continue to shape public space today.\\nAbout the Author\\nMolly M. Br ookfield is assistant professor of history and women’\\;s and gender studies at The University of the South.\\nAbout the Conversation Partner \\nCristen Conger is the creator\\, host and executive producer of Unlady like. Her accidental podcast career began in 2009 when she launched Stuff Mom Never Told You and co-hosted it through 2016. She’\\;s also the co-author of Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Cl aiming Your Space\\, which Kirkus Reviews called “a must-have feminist survival guide for the Trump era.”\\nWhen she’s not making Unladylike media\\, Cristen’s probably bingeing Real Housewives with her rescue m altipoo\\, Brewster.\\nThe event is free and open to all people\\, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of C haris Circle\\, our programming non-profit. Donate on Crowdcast or via ou r website: www.chariscircle.org/donate.\\nPlease contact us at info@chari scircle.org or 404-524-0304 if you would like ASL interpretation at this event. If you would like to watch the event with live AI captions\\, you may do so by watching it in Google Chrome and enabling captions: Instruct ions here. If you have other accessibility needs or if you are someone wh o has skills in making digital events more accessible please don’\\; t hesitate to reach out to info@chariscircle.org.\\nBy attending our even t\\, you agree to our Code of Conduct: Our event seeks to provide a haras sment-free experience for everyone\\, regardless of gender\\, gender iden tity and expression\\, age\\, sexual orientation\\, disability\\, physica l appearance\\, body size\\, race\\, ethnicity\\, religion (or lack there of)\\, class\\, or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment in a ny form. Unsolicited sexual language and imagery are not appropriate. Any one violating these rules will be expelled from this event and all future events at the discretion of the organizers. Please report all harassment to Charis staff immediately or email info@chariscircle.org.\\nhttps://ww w.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/atlanta/events/watching-the-girls-g o-by-a-history-of-street-harassment-in-the-united-states-8212-molly-m-bro okfield-in-conversation-with-cristen-conger-2026-09-16 LOCATION:artsatl.org URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/atlanta/events/watching-the-girls-go-by-a-history-of-street-harassment-in-the-united-states-8212-molly-m-brookfield-in-conversation-with-cristen-conger-2026-09-16 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR