Making Sense of Sexual Harassment Over Time: Young Women’s and Nonbinary People’s Accounts in 2000 and 2021

The #metoo movement and various other social media campaigns have made sexual harassment increasingly visible in recent years. Such collective practices of naming thereby resisting been possible by feminist discourses that enabled the linking personal experiences to gendered structures. In this paper, we examine temporal shifts young people’s accounts based on two datasets generated 15–16-year-old girls nonbinary people which were collected 20 years apart (2000 2021) Finland. We draw poststructuralist discourse theory, intersectionality Sara Ahmed’s writings complaints analysing participants’ positions relation harassment. Notably, 2000 dataset, participants emphasized individual agency responsibility, whereas 2021 they acknowledged intersectional patterns victimization actively resisted victim-blaming silencing. conclude held differ specifically extent are informed is seen as warranting legitimating complaint.