American - Activist | September 12, 1973 -
Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.
Tarana Burke
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Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.
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What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.
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When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.
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For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it.
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Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.
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We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.
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I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
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I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that.
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People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated.
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I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now.
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I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'
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