In this article, I examine the strategies of resistance deployed by people who have experienced street harassment. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 47 heterosexual women and LGBTQ+ people, I document how participants skillfully and contextually deployed resistance strategies to disrupt harassment. Notably, participants often represented resistance practices as moments of affective, subconscious snap. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of feminist snap as well as feminist scholarship on affect and embodiment, I argue that practices of resistance must be located within a much longer history of harassment which builds up or sediments in the body over time, culminating in an affective breaking point. As Ahmed suggests, “a snap is not the starting point.” Conversely, other participants described being worn down by harassment over time, which I conceptualize as a form of feminist erosion. In examining practices of resistance to street harassment, I aim to provide insight into the disruption and contestation of dominant power relations and the formation of embodied, gendered subjectivities.

中文翻译：

---

“我真的啪”：将对街头骚扰的抵抗概念化为女权主义的啪啪声和侵蚀


在这篇文章中，我研究了经历过街头骚扰的人所采用的抵抗策略。借鉴对 47 名异性恋女性和 LGBTQ+ 人群的半结构化访谈，我记录了参与者如何巧妙地和情境化地部署抵抗策略来破坏骚扰。值得注意的是，参与者经常将抵抗练习描述为情感、潜意识的爆发时刻。借鉴萨拉·艾哈迈德 （Sara Ahmed） 的女权主义快照概念以及关于情感和体现的女权主义学术研究，我认为抵抗实践必须位于更长的骚扰历史中，随着时间的推移，骚扰会在身体中积累或沉淀，最终导致情感破裂点。正如 Ahmed 所说，“快照不是起点。相反，其他参与者描述了随着时间的推移被骚扰所累，我将其概念化为一种女权主义侵蚀。在研究抵抗街头骚扰的实践时，我旨在提供对主导权力关系的破坏和争论以及具身的、性别化主体性的形成的见解。