Nat 12th July 2023 I was listing to a podcast by one of my fave feminist girls, feeling really empowered and really good about being a woman. Then some guy on his electric scooter thought it was appropriate to say ‘hello sexy’ as he scooted on past me. No woman wants to hear that. Not a...
A, Aged 14
2021
I was in a classroom because I was having a lesson and a boy sits right next to me and gets close. I was thinking he probably wants to be friendly but as soon as he started touching my thighs and trying to touch my boobs in front of the teacher I knew it wasn’t right.
C, aged 32 2023 I was driving home when another vehicle cut me up at the Oxford junction. I pressed my horn as I slammed on my car brakes. The male driver of the other vehicle waved and made hand gestures at me. I continued my route home which happened to be behind this vehicle. The...
Annie, aged 15 2023 I was walking with my friend from our youth club that we go to every week. As we’re walking down the street it’s on there were these two men outside a house in their garden I didn’t think anything of it and carried on having a conversation with my friend and as I was...
J, aged 13 2018 I went swimming with my dad and my little brother to spend some time with them. My little brother made friends with another young girl in the pool who was with her dad. Her dad kept looking at me and smiling. Me being 13, I just assumed it was him being nice and friendly...
J, Aged 15 2021 I was out with someone who I was with at the time and thought I could trust. I was only 15 and had a naïve outlook on boys and what they wanted. I went out with this boy one day and we went to a park he pinned me up against a wall shoving his body into me aggressively...
Emily, aged 26 2023 A woman sat by where I was dancing in put her hand up my skirt and was touching me inappropriately. My friend addressed her about this and she apologised saying it was a “joke”. The staff were very helpful and she was kicked out and barred, but it concerns me a woman...
Aged 40, 2001
I was walking home at midnight when a man drove past me. He then turned round and passed me the other way, slowing down and staring at me. He proceeded to do this several times for the length of the road between the airport and the Halfway House.
2023 Alex L, Aged 14 I was on my way home from school, wearing school uniform, and a man in his 30s approached me and told me I was beautiful. He asked me for my phone number and I said no, but he kept asking. I carried on walking and he followed me, asking for my phone number and then...
2023
Aged 45
Outside xxxx bar, asked how much I charge for sex.
Lucy, aged 26 10th June, 2023 I had been out celebrating pride and decided to go and meet a couple of friends at the pub. Unfortunately, the women’s toilets were out of use and so we had to use the men’s which had been labelled as unisex. Whilst waiting for the cubicle a man using a...
Lucy, aged 26 2023 There has been a number of occasions that I have been into xxxx bar and one man in particular has consistently sexually harassed and assaulted me. The first instance he put his hand up my skirt and laughed at me when I asked what he was doing. I felt extremely...
Aged 26
10th June 2023
Me and my friend were out celebrating pride. We were wolf whistled at and comments such as ‘sexy girls’ were thrown at us.
Lucy, aged 26 10th June 2023 I was out for pride dressed head to toe in rainbows. Very clearly not interested in any straight white men. Regardless of what I was dressed like and what I was out celebrating, a man decided to shout that he loved me and proceeded to make a gross comment at...
Aged 36 26th May 2023 I don’t think I’ve ever come face-to-face with such blatant misogyny as I did on this night. Not in my memory at least, although I’m sure there is plenty that I have buried. I met a guy on a night out who was a long-term childhood friend of friend. He was...