Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community.
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Our work is about supporting survivors by providing resources for healing and action.
There is inherent strength in agency. #MeToo, in a lot of ways, is about agency. It’s not about giving up your agency.
Tarana Burke, quoted in Emma Brockes
Sexual violence happens on a spectrum so accountability has to happen on a spectrum.
quoted in Emma Brockes
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Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to tweet the words if they had experienced abuse and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. The phrase and hashtag quickly developed into a broad-based, and eventually international viral movement.
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