One of the primary goals of SHS is to encourage people who have experienced sexual harassment to
begin to talk about what happened to them.  

The popular media presents sexual harassment victims as insecure women and men who fly off the
handle, or immediately sue a company, right after someone says something off-color, and makes a
pass at them.  Or they are presented as provocative and promiscuous, inviting sexual harassment with
their behavior or lifestyle.   (Hence the popularity of the "nuts and sluts" defense.)  They have even coined
the phrase "the sexual harassment industry" for a legal system that makes money off of these lawsuits.  

Nothing could be farther from the truth.  The media rarely, if ever focuses on the psychological damage
that severe and chronic harassment can have, not to mention the permanent damage to careers and
lives.  They rarely focus on the often accompanying backlash and retaliation which often is worse than
the original harassment.  They rarely focus on the hostility that entire communities can focus on a
complainant.
SHS Support forum and stalking support group:

  • The Sexual Harassment Support Forum
  • Stalking Survivors support group

Stories and Experiences pages which enables sexual harassment
victims to share their experiences with visitors to the site, and allows
visitors to share their comments.

The new SPEAK UP! Blog which enables SHS members, and visitors,
to post original articles or artwork focusing on the issues surrounding
sexual harassment.

Surveys which allow members and visitors to confidentially share their
experiences, and improve our  understanding or sexual harassment
and the surrounding dynamics and effects, both long and short term.  
The SPEAK UP! Program
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So Speak Up! and reach out to others who have had similar experiences.   
Help change current perceptions by letting others know what it is really
like to experience sexual harassment or stalking.  
Sexual Harassment Support
Support and information for anyone who has experienced sexual harassment.
But people won't know the truth if the victims don't speak up
about the truth and extent of what has happened to them.  

SHS began with a support forum, but we have gradually added
several other options for victims to support each other and share
about their experiences--for example, a stalking victims forum, the
Stories and Experiences pages, a blog for publishing artwork and
articles, and the surveys.  The addition of these new  features are
leading us to dub these features together as the  SPEAK UP!
program which provides sexual harassment victims a place to
share their experiences and opinions with each other, and the
public, in a safe, respectful, non-judgemental environment.  (Yes,
"speak up!" is a shameless take on the line "stand up!" from the
movie North Country.)
SPEAK UP!  includes:
Speak Up!
Childhood Ends
by Lacune Rainchild, SHS member
(Photoshop CS)