American - Activist | September 12, 1973 -
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.
Tarana Burke
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These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.
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I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls.
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I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words.
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Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.
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I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated.
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What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.
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Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.
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If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.
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I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
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Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about how to reach into communities and support community healing on a more local level.
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There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often.
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