Meet the woman whose Instagram story blew the lid off the 'rape culture' at the UK's most expensive schools, elite universities

  • Soma Sara is the founder of Everyone's Invited - a platform for survivors of sexual abuse.

  • There are over 15,000 testimonies on the website. Many are about elite British schools and universities.

  • Sara never expected to become the face of a global movement, she said in an interview with Insider.

The day 22-year-old Soma Sara shared her experience of rape culture on her Instagram story, she was unwittingly lighting a flame of hope for thousands of teenage girls and young women who had been silently enduring sexual abuse at school and university.

"I was not expecting anything," she said in an interview with Insider. "It was very much a spontaneous, cathartic personal moment for me, and I was overwhelmed by the responses."

Her June 2020 Instagram story about her experiences of "casual and severe forms of sexism" while attending the prestigious Wycombe Abbey, a Hogwarts-style English boarding school, resonated strongly with many friends, family members, as well as countless strangers.

After receiving hundreds of Instagram messages, Sara decided to set up a platform for survivors' testimonies - Everyone's Invited. Almost a year on, the website hosts over 15,000 testimonies.

 


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