Abstract
<p>AbstractThis paper focuses on barriers to disclosing school-based sexual harassment for racially-minoritised girls in the UK. The data are derived from the first UK study of racially minoritised girls’ experiences of public sexual harassment; in this paper we focus specifically on sexual harassment experiences in school. We adopted a qualitative research design that used co-produced, participatory methods to elicit the voices of racially-minoritised girls and young women. Twenty-eight participants from schools, community settings, and universities took part in semi-structured interviews and focus groups that used techniques such as photo elicitation and creative methods to prompt discussion. Barriers to disclosure fall into four thematic categories: feeling dismissed; lack of appropriate adults to disclose to in school; normalisation of sexual harassment; and victim-blaming. The findings make an important contribution to the scant UK literature on the school-level experiences of racially minoritised girls and demonstrate how race/ethnicity shape these experiences.Keywords: sexual harassment, schools, disclosure, barriers, racially-minoritised girls</p>