Speak Up!

Claire Joe, London, U.K.
     I started my studies on a university course very happy in September. In October I started attending lectures on my course. I got unwanted attention from a male university lecturer who kept smiling at me. I thought it was my imagination but I used to get the train home from university, and [...]

Becca, Canada    
     This happened 10 years ago but it still affects me.
     In junior high (grade 7-9) I was sexually harassed because I answered a question. I was happy and confident and liked to answer questions if I could in school. I made sure no one else wanted to answer first and then I would [...]

Roshanda
     I am a 17 year old senior in high school.  From the 6th through the 10th grade, I was sexually harassed by a guy at my school.  He was a few years older than me.  At that time we rode the bus together and had Drivers Ed together.
     The first encounter I had with him [...]

Jude
     It was my freshman year of high school that I was taking a science class with a “notoriously perverted” teacher, or so I’d been warned by peers.  Regardless, I needed the credit, and at a small high school, he was the only educator teaching the class.
     He proved to be overly casual for a teacher, [...]

Sexually Harassed Guy, New York
     I am a 15 year old guy in the 10th grade.  Ever since the 6th grade, I have been harassed by a female student and a few of her friends, but mostly her.
      I can’t remember when it started, but I do remember sometime in the 7th grade I had [...]

Melissa, Canada
     When I was in high school, there was a guy who didn’t leave me alone about my body and what he wanted to do to it.  He would be extremely vulgar.
     I would tell him “No,” but he knew that I was shy and would never tell him off.  And  I never did.  Instead I learned [...]

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 [...]

Luna, Massachusetts
     I have loved school since I was little, but that all changed last year in the 6th grade.
     The first month went okay, but then he started to come over to me. At first he would just stand by my desk and talk to his friends. Soon he pointed sexual jokes at me, [...]