The debut book from a celebrated artist on the urgent topic of
street harassment
Every day, all over
the world, women are catcalled and denigrated simply for walking down
the street. Boys will be boys, women have been told for generations,
ignore it, shrug it off, take it as a compliment. But the harassment
has real consequences for women: in the fear it instills and the
shame they are made to feel.
In Stop Telling
Women to Smile, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh uses her arresting street
art portraits to explore how women experience hostility in
communities that are supposed to be homes. She addresses the
pervasiveness of street harassment, its effects, and the kinds of
activism that can serve to counter it. The result is a cathartic
reckoning with the aggression women endure, and an examination of
what equality truly entails.
