Soma Sara is a multi-award winning activist, author, speaker and CEO of the charity ‘Everyone’s Invited’.
In June 2020, Soma began sharing her experiences of rape culture on Instagram. In light of the overwhelming response from those who resonated with her story, Soma founded Everyone’s Invited. Everyone’s Invited is a charity providing an anonymous space for survivors to share their stories and delivering specialist education designed to empower school communities to promote healthy relationships, sexual well-being and to tackle rape culture. Everyone’s Invited has recieved over 50,000 testimonies and has sparked a conversation about rape culture with millions of people.
Soma has been included in British Vogue's 2021 Vogue 25, won the 2021 Harper's Bazaar Activist of the Year award, the 2022 Stylist Magazine Activist of the Year award, Glamour UK Magazine’s 2022 Activist of the Year award, was included in the BBC 100 global list of inspiring and influential women of 2021 and was recognised by the Prime Minister as the 1844th 'Point of Light'. She has also written for the Times, the Telegraph, the I Paper, Tortoise Media, the Daily Express, ELLE magazine, Glamour UK and Harper’s Bazaar.
In September 2022, Soma published her first book under the same name, ‘Everyone’s Invited’, a collection of essays that grapple with the modern sexual landscape and the root causes of a culture that enables sexual harassment, abuse and violence to prevail.
Everyone’s Invited by Soma Sara
'Read this and learn – this is what a force for good looks like'
- Jess Phillips MP
'Her work has directly contributed to a groundswell of pent-up frustration and exhaustion from women and girls who have simply had enough. And people are listening.’
- The Independent
‘Soma’s efforts feel more pressing than ever’
- Vogue
We are all a part of a culture that is broken – and nobody benefits from it. It’s in the news we read, the films we watch, the music we listen to, the people we surround ourselves with, the institutions we navigate, the laws we follow, and the streets we walk.
We are part of a system that was founded on inequality and drastic power imbalance. Of course, many things are better than they were. But the age of social media has dramatically exposed truths previously hidden. In this collection of essays, covering subjects from porn to the patriarchy, Soma Sara draws a line between the different facets of our society that enable inequality to flourish. The scale of the problem is vast, and deeply entrenched in all of us.
Here, Soma Sara argues that we can flip the script and start solving the problem – and create a better society for everyone. Everyone’s Invited is an essential and enlightening force to push us forward to a more equal world.
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Contact.
Book publicity inquiries: Rhiannon.Carroll@simonandschuster.co.uk
Speaking inquiries: somacjsara@gmail.com