A Bristol charity that delivers workshops in schools around gender and racial inequality said that they are concerned over the “normalisation” of sexual harassment and “toxic” relationships among young people. Fahma Mohamed who began volunteering with Integrate UK as a secondary school student at City Academy in Easton, made a name for herself when she became the face of a Guardian backed campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), resulting in compulsory training over the issue which had previously been a taboo subject.
Ms Mohamed is now 26 and working with the organisation on its two latest projects around coercive control and sexual harassment. Since the pandemic, the work has become more challenging and the demand for support services has risen, she told Bristol Live.
Last year Ofsted launched a review into sexual abuse in schools and colleges and found that 90 per cent of girls they interviewed had experience of sexist name calling and 80 per cent had been pressured to provide sexual images of themselves. Ms Mohamed said that when delivering workshops in Bristol schools over the last year she found that girls getting pressured into sending nude images of themselves had become normal.
