At the end of this week more than 5,800 anonymous testimonials cataloguing acts of sexual harassment, abuse and assault in UK schools have been posted on Everyone’s Invited – and they are still coming. But this isn’t rare, it happens all the time,” said UCL student Soma Sara, herself a survivor of sexual abuse. Written by former pupil Samuel Schulenburg, 19, it included approximately 250 anonymous stories from girls who went to nearby schools. The work of Everyone’s Invited is crucial,” she said. The crescendo of voices has provided a moment of reckoning, said Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women coalition.

Source: The Guardian March 27, 2021 08:01 UTC