Last week, The Everyday Sexism Project started a conversation on Twitter about being #grabbed against one’s will (sexual assault). You can read the Storify.
Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates wrote about it for the Guardian, saying:
“These are just a tiny selection of the thousands of stories that poured in when I started the hashtag #Grabbed on Twitter to document experiences of being touched, grabbed and groped without consent.
Within a few hours, according to the International Business Times, the hashtag had been used more than 6,000 times. By that evening it was the top trending topic in the UK.
As suggested by the overwhelming number of personal testimonies that flooded in, the experience of being touched in a sexual way without your consent is devastatingly common.”
