Blog | Safecity | Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behavior that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions.

Safecity Monthly Updates – June 2022

Safecity is committed to creating safer communities for everyone. Our goal is to empower citizens by helping them understand the potential risks they could face in different neighbourhoods. We can […]Read more

Being an Ally to the LGBTQIA+ Community

By Anjali Kumari Since time immemorial, people have associated sex assigned at birth with gender identity. However, sex – female, male and intersex, is something that is categorised as […]Read more

Safecity Monthly Updates – May 2022

Unlearning Biases: Why It’s Important To Re-evaluate Our Upbringing

By Imaan Haque Growing up in a conservative Muslim family, I was always told that queerness is something exceptionally sinful. There was no space to even talk about homosexuality, […]Read more

Safecity Monthly Updates – April 2022

Should One Strive for Women’s Equality or Equity?

By Evanshi Mavani There’s a viral image circulating on social media that displays two people in two distinct circumstances. In the first, both individuals are given an equal-sized box […]Read more

Public Street Harassment: The Shadow Behind Every Woman

By Imaan Haque An inevitable facet of traversing the world as a woman is the ceaseless harassment levied on us in public. In India, a woman is sexually harassed […]Read more

Safecity Monthly Updates – March 2022

Safecity Monthly Updates – February 2022

Pushpa: The Limits of Indian Cinema?

By Evanshi Mavani Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual violence For years now in Indian cinema, there’s been nothing as exhilarating for the masses as seeing a hero crush […]Read more

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