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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS LITERARY CORNER “Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

REVIEW by Terri Schlichenmeyer, Harlem News contributor

Heeeeey, look over here!

You look fine today, Mama, Sugar, Hon ey, Baby, fill-in-the-blank with names you’re called by men you don’t know. Just think, Sweetie, Pretty, you were minding your business before this monkey busi ness started. And just know, by reading “Stop Tell ing Women to Smile” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, that others deal with it, too.

Like many women, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh spent her teen years in public “not wanting to be seen.” Cat calls, creepy comments, unwanted compliments about her young body followed her from street to sidewalk, coming from men who made her feel afraid, ashamed, and definitely harassed. The “sheer quantity” of it struck her as she got older and in 2012, Fazlalaizadeh, a street artist, started a movement she calls Stop Telling Wom en to Smile.

As part of her work, she invites women to her stu dio to tell their stories as she sketches their portraits. Some of her results are in this book – and they’re pow erful.

The most common re sponse to street harassment, she says, is anxiety, a lin gering dread of what could happen – physical violence, stalking, emotional terror – whether one interacts with a harasser or not. For many women, harassment becomes a part of their daily lives.

Says Fazlalizadeh, men who engage androgynous women in unwanted ways “are particularly likely to ha rass masculine women” out of a false sense of their own masculinity; they’re also likely to harass trans women because they feel “tricked” by a trans body. Women of color receive “markedly different” harassment from white men than from men of their own races. Pregnant women receive unwelcome touches, as though they’re good-luck charms; and Mus lim women are verbally attacked for their clothing.

And who can women “go to for protection” if the ha rasser is a police officer? What can be done? Fazlalizadeh says that she sees hope for today’s children, who are raised learning not to harass – but beyond that, the solution “is a large question that can have many answers.”

Give yourself a min ute to skim through “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” and it may seem like the book is little more than same-but-different which, after awhile, is too homoge neous and overgeneralizing. Dig a little deeper, though, and this book opens like a flower with pages of emo tion, outrageous tales, anger, unwarranted shame, and a chapter for feminist men that could spell welcome change. Dig a little deeper, though, and you might shud der.

Author Tatyana Fazlal

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Harlem Community Newspapers | March 5. 2020 21 izadeh makes this book feel like a raw gallery perfor mance, and it shouts with power but not a lot of cau tion. Some of the “What Women Want to Say to Street Harassers” sidebars come off as advice, and safety isn’t stressed nearly enough there. There’s strength in Fazlal izadeh’s words and they’re stand-up-and-scream inspir ing, but they just need a hair more prudence.

And yet: this is an invalu able book for any women’s group, it’s a great launching point for conversations with teens of any gender, and par ents will absolutely want to read it. For that, for them, “Stop Telling Women to Smile” is worth a look-over. “Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Ha rassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

c.2020, Seal Press $28.00 / $35.00 Canada 226 pages

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