Stop Telling Women to Smile Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

Aug 8 2020

Location: 

NYC, Around the World

publicly displayed posters feature the portraits of women, along with a quote relaying their experiences with street harassment. Fazlalizadeh hopes the captions speak directly to offenders by placing the posters outside in public spaces where harassment happens.

External sources: 

http://stoptellingwomentosmile.com/
Posted by abbytrott on Feb 24 2021

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.

Notes

I think that this definitely gets the attention of passers and can give an interesting thought, but now sure how it impact long terms or activates action