Looking for an expert on street harassment or sexual harassment in schools? Email mandyvandeven@gmail.com to speak with the authors of Hey, Shorty!

Here’s what people are saying about the book:

“Hey, Shorty! offers a detailed blueprint for how to make the streets and schools safer for our girls (and everyone else) – by empowering young people to take leadership on this issue and supporting them to develop effective strategies. These girls’ work is a potent example of youth activism: they successfully raised awareness about an issue that has too often gone ignored.” – Elizabeth Mendez Berry, journalist

“This book is full of great ideas for youth organizing and coalition work. What’s most impressive is how GGE encouraged girls to articulate their issues and goals, and then worked with them to learn the skills they needed to achieve their goals. The result? A whole new generation of smart, knowledgeable, articulate and empowered young women. Women who will change the world.” – Ms. Magazine

“It was really nice to read the accounts of young women coming to terms with and then learning various methodologies of confronting sexual harassment and violence. Conversations turned into actions turned into surveys, turned into research, turned into self-advocacy.” – VivirLatino

“Beyond being a ‘guide’, Hey, Shorty! is really a manifesto for community-based solutions and enlightened social change at the intersections of race, gender, class, ability etc. Whether it’s reading Joanne N. Smith’s tale of how she started Girls for Gender Equity (GGE), back in 2001, or understanding how Mandy Van Deven facilitated a group of girls that went on to make their own award-winning documentary film on street harassment, you end up witnessing the way change actually gets made.” – Feministing (Courtney E. Martin)

“The book provides a model for action through the example of Girls for Gender Equity’s work, in particular the model of prioritizing youth leadership on issues that relate to youth because, as Joanne N. Smith notes, they are the experts on these issues and they are the main stakeholders.” – Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment

Additional coverage can be found at:
Sex Roles (academic journal)
The Huffington Post
RH Reality Check
Feministing (Chloe Angyal)
Gender Across Borders
Bitch Magazine
WBAI
The Brooklyn Rail
Elevate Difference
Hollaback
Tiger Beatdown
Small Strokes
Women’s eNews
Chicago Examiner
Feminist Teacher
SPARK Summit
The Pursuit of Harpyness
Crunk Feminist Collective
Prof. Janni Aragon’s Blog
Scarleteen
Women’s Glib
Not My Typewriter
Teen Voices 
Hugo Schwyzer
Brenda’s Books and Blog
Reading in Color
Latino Sexuality 
Viva La Feminista 
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
The Women’s International Perspective
New Youth Connections
Brownstone Magazine
Progressive Radio
HipMama Radio
BlogHer
Rabble.ca
On the Issues Magazine
Rethinking Schools
Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School (AAUW)
The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism
Shameless Magazine
Jezebel
ColorLines