Me Too is a movement, not a moment
Tarana Burke, the creator of the #MeToo movement, shares her
feeling of numbness even after a year of her movement becoming a viral hashtag
and the world discovering her decade old campaign to support survivors of sexual abuse.
“Numbness is not always the absence of feeling,” she clarifies, “Sometimes it’s
an accumulation of feelings.” With progressive
ideals being trampled while powerful people are protected, she talks about her feeling
of fatigue setting in. The source of it being from living through the
same experiences, “soldiering through the Supreme Court nomination process and
attacks from the White House, gross mischaracterizations, internet trolls and
the rallies and marches and heart-wrenching testimonies,”. Burke then revisits
some of the basics of the movement, reminding the audience that it’s built on
empathy for survivors, not attacks on men. She wants us to re-imagine power and
privilege, and rethink the way we live with trauma. By having elicited a sense
of solidarity and authentic dedication to the cause- “to re-educate ourselves to
understand that, unequivocally, every human being has the right to walk through
this life with their full humanity intact”—shares a tale about her family which
is deeply affecting, and ultimately energizing.
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