Tarana Burke

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Books to help survivors include Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the MeToo Movement by Tarana Burke; Know My Name by Chanel Miller; Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal; and Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, with a forward by Jessica Valenti.

The profile of a rapist is not someone met in a car park late at night.

A rapist can also be in the family, among our friends," said Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her over nine years, arranging for at least seventy-two men to rape her too.

But it's the hashtag that Rose McGowan used to that Harvey Weinstein had raped her.

And that led to an investigation, a New York Times report, Jodi Kantor, Megan Toomey, millions of women around the world collecting around a hashtag that Tarana Burke started called Me Too.

And that was a watershed moment.

And it makes me, like, cry because I think about, like...

You know, when I was reading my feed with all these women's stories, I wasn't, honestly, very surprised.

You know, Tarana Burke started this many years ago.

Nobody listened.

And now people are listening.

And what happened to that momentum? Was there momentum? What happened to it?

I love the work of Tarana Burke, and she always says that it's not a moment, it's a movement.

She's, she's-

That-

With fight, you know? And what's interesting is that...

Last time, right when the nodes shifted to Capricorn and Cancer, okay, November, late November of 2018, Tarana Burke, which is the founder of the Me Too movement, came out with a TED Talk saying that the movement had sort of lost its purpose.

What originally had started to put a voice... to uh victims was now this thing that men had weaponized right where they were like oh my god like so i so scared of being me too you know like so i just think that's really interesting that that was at the very end of the nodes shifting and saying that this thing that had sort of you know taken over the collective.

And what I find interesting is that if you think about North Node and Leo and the Me Too movement, it was individual voice, you know, every single voice mattered and everyone had a unique story and people quote unquote roared like Leo, right? And told their stories.

She's opened up a community center, a physical community center and a community garden that she's operated for quite some time.

I think of Tarana Burke of the Me Too movement, who was a relatively young single mom and just the years of activist work that she did before this hashtag kind of put a spotlight on what she'd been doing anyway.

So it's It's remarkable.

And I think that, you know, we are stronger and more resilient than we know.