Document Type
Interview
Abstract
In recent years, street harassment has garnered a significant amount of public and scholarly attention. Activist campaigns to spread awareness on this issue and promote women’s public safety have shaped laws along with cultural understandings of gender and power. In 2010, integrated media artist Suyin Looui offered her contribution to this discourse through a game titled Hey Baby. Designed as a first person shooter, Hey Baby allows the player to experience street harassment.
This roundtable places Hey Baby in conversation with two activist-scholars concerned with street harassment. Holly Kearl is the founder of StopStreetHarassment.org and author of Stop Street Harassment (2010). Kearl has been instrumental in educating audiences on location, national, and international street harassment campaigns. Jerrod Koon is a Counseling Psychology doctoral student at the University of Iowa and member of the Men’s Anti-Violence Council (MAC).
Repository Citation
Carter, Derrais, Holly Kearl, and Jerrod Koon. "Modes of Resistance: A Critical Discussion of Hey Baby." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 12, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1–9. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol12/iss2/10