London Mayor Sadiq Khan Hails ‘Adolescence’ for Having ‘Mainstreamed’ Conversation About ‘Epidemic’ of Violence Against Women

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Hails ‘Adolescence’ for Having ‘Mainstreamed’ Conversation About ‘Epidemic’ of Violence Against Women

“Adolescence” has been praised by London Mayor Sadiq Khan for helping bring the subject of violence against women and the dangers of social media into the limelight. Speaking to Variety on the sidelines of the inaugural SXSW London, where he gave the opening speech, Khan said that there was an “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the U.K., citing statistic from 2019 and 2020 that asserted “every three days a woman is killed at the…