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indielitttttt's review against another edition
5.0
Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather by Shawna Potter
This was a really great and informative read. It’s a pretty interactive text with space for us to reflect on our own behaviors. It is absolutely bent toward abolition and advocates the use of transformative justice to respond to harassment. It’s also a refreshing guide to bystander intervention, one that recognizes the structural nature of harassment and sexual violence. It includes incredibly helpful and important information in the appendices. This is a good tool to have in your back pocket, pick it up if you can. (Only knocking the .5 off for the push for more surveillance cameras)
4.5/5⭐️
This was a really great and informative read. It’s a pretty interactive text with space for us to reflect on our own behaviors. It is absolutely bent toward abolition and advocates the use of transformative justice to respond to harassment. It’s also a refreshing guide to bystander intervention, one that recognizes the structural nature of harassment and sexual violence. It includes incredibly helpful and important information in the appendices. This is a good tool to have in your back pocket, pick it up if you can. (Only knocking the .5 off for the push for more surveillance cameras)
4.5/5⭐️
papiro's review against another edition
5.0
Esencial para cualquier persona que regente un negocio o haga eventos en algún local (aunque no todo sea fácil de aplicar).
Para quien no esté en ese caso, le puede enseñar bastantes cosas para aplicar en los espacios donde está. Echaré un vistazo a la bibliografía, que también parecía interesante.
Para quien no esté en ese caso, le puede enseñar bastantes cosas para aplicar en los espacios donde está. Echaré un vistazo a la bibliografía, que también parecía interesante.
suitcaselife's review against another edition
5.0
This is such an important book, not only for the event industry but us as a society. Shawna Potter, singer of the band War On Women lays out an analysis about why spaces are not safe for everyone, what makes people unsafe and most important: How to make spaces safer. As a part of the concert industry, her main focus is on the music event side of things, but as she mentiones in the text, all her suggestions are open for any sort of space, being it a theater, a bar, a coffee shop or a simple hang around place.
I hope this book will be translated into German soon, so I can tell everyone I know, about it and make them follow these steps to make sure our event industry gets safer!
I hope this book will be translated into German soon, so I can tell everyone I know, about it and make them follow these steps to make sure our event industry gets safer!
adues's review against another edition
5.0
This book is such a great resource and a really engaging read!
dtslusarz's review against another edition
4.0
Good intro piece for creating safer public spaces, mainly focused on business spaces navigating what that looks like in real-time and moving forward as a safer space. The second section is on how to navigate not harassing people (focused on men/people who are attracted to women/gender-nonconforming people), how to handle being harassed, and real, lived examples of handling these situations. Real easy read.
thebechdelbitch's review against another edition
5.0
Honestly, everyone everywhere should read this. Not just event venues, everyone. So practical and useful, demonstrating actual solutions to problems which have plagued the planet for millenia.
princessplantmom's review against another edition
5.0
Whoa. Yep. Incredible. Amazing insight in this book. Truly a must read for anyone who cares about creating safer movements and events.