American - Activist | September 12, 1973 -
If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.
Tarana Burke
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Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that.
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The personal is political for so many.
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I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is.
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Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person.
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I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.
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As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
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We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.
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I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.
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I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'
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'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.
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Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'
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