Speak Up!

Crystal, Pennsylvania
     Let me start with I am 1 of 5 female employees at a painting company. The company is owned by two men. I will call them Bevis and Butthead. Bevis is the president of the company and also the father of my boyfriend (of the last 9+years).   Butthead is the HR man, [...]

Sarah, Minnesota
     I worked as a night manager for a store owned largely by my sister and her husband.  They owned 90% of the business, and the husband’s parents own the other 10%.  However, the parents have 100% governing rights over the business, so they had full say over what was done and not done.
     In [...]

Worried High School Girl,  New York
     This past year was my first year in high school.  Admittedly I was very nervous about it due to the fact I am a very quiet girl with a few good friends.
     Now I’m not quite sure when I started to notice that this boy (whom is 3 years [...]

Dream
     My science teacher is 20 and I am 15.  He told me to stay after class one day.  I asked him “What for?” and he said that he wanted to talk to me about something and to sit down.   So I did.
     We started talking about school stuff and then he changes the subject and [...]

John, United Kingdom
     I am a gay man and want to share my story.
     I was a PhD student and everyone said I could be a great professor or something like that. But everything changed when I went to a small European country to conduct fieldwork. (I was an anthropology major, so I had to [...]

Broken
     I am 24 years old and was recently fired from a job that I excelled at, was passionate about, and had been very excited about.  I was an assistant coach of a division 1 athletic team while attending graduate school.  I had been so passionate about this sport my entire life and earned a [...]

Jennifer, Virginia
     Beginning the first week of employment until the week I resigned, I was repeatedly sexually and verbally harassed by the co-owner of the business where I was working.  (The business is owned by a group of brothers.)  Some incidences were daily while others were once every week to two weeks.
      He has grabbed [...]

LW, United Kingdom
     When I was 18 years old, a friend of my ex-boyfriend made sexual advances towards me.  I told his girlfriend (who was a friend of mine).  This wasn’t the first time he had attempted to cheat on her, so she dumped him.  This man blamed me for this, and became obsessed with revenge and making my [...]

 Lian, Oregon   
     I am 12 years old and am in 7th grade. In one of my classes, I met this guy. He is 2 years older then me, 14. His name is “James.”
     About a year ago, everyday in class, he sits next to me and touches me. EVERYWHERE. I’m not going to go into [...]

Patrick, Oklahoma
     I just started a new job and the supervisor continually makes degrading remarks about fellow workers personal odors, sexual preferences, appearances, working habits.
     He is a total locker room bully and this week alone has asked me if I like little boys, have I ever considered a sex change operation, that I have [...]