In this episode of Reckoning, Kathryn Kosmides speaks with Sophie Sandberg about street harassment, sexual harassment, and catcalling culture. Sophie is a street artist, gender justice activist, and founder of both Catcalls of NYC and Chalk Back. Catcalls of NYC is a grassroots initiative that uses public chalk art to raise awareness about gender-based street harassment in New York City. Chalk Back is an international youth-led movement committed to ending gender-based street harassment with public chalk art, digital media and education.

In this episode, Sophie discusses:

• Catcalling culture in New York City and how it can leave catcall victims helpless and uncomfortable
• How gender norms shape and influence who catcalls and who gets catcalled
• The spectrum of catcalling and how it manifests
• What happened when she spoke with a catcaller
• The legality (or lack thereof) of catcalling and why some catcall victims don’t report the catcalling to police
• Storytelling as a means to share stories of catcalling and harassment
• Reasonably preventing street harassment