Hollaback's 2012 State of the Streets Report

core values These values are the backbone of our leadership training and movementbuilding work. We deliberately create bold, diverse leaders who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. We provide a platform from which our leaders can elevate their voices while working to end this form of sexual violence, and we collectively provide support for one another when challenges arise.

A culture of badass. We believe that the movement to end street harassment will be led like all the other movements that have come before it: by people who redefine the status quo ‘rules,’ embrace bold ideas, and encourage risk-taking.

Making the impossible possible. We’re united in our belief that a world without street harassment isn’t just possible, it’s imminent. Our job is to work together to speed up the process.

Transparency and honesty. Movements require trust, and trust is earned.

Whether you are a reader, a contributor, a funder, a legislator, a local leader, or a partner, we promise you honesty and transparency.

We’ve got your back. When times get tough, we stand united against the forces that try to pull us apart. We embrace others’ perspectives, see debate as a learning opportunity, and we never, ever get holier-than-thou.

A bunch of people that look alike does not a movement make. We will not fight street harassment at the expense of other movements. We seek to understand street harassment from every possible perspective, and seek to represent our movement with as wide and diverse a constituency as possible.

Followers are the new leaders. It’s not the leaders alone who build movements, it’s the followers. We are committed to supporting followers to become new leaders, who can then turn their followers into new leaders, and so on and so forth until street harassment ends.