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How Me Too Grew From Grassroots To Global
- Me Too became a global movement after high-profile allegations against Harvey Weinstein sparked widespread sharing of the hashtag in 2017.
- Tarana Burke had already coined Me Too years earlier while supporting marginalized survivors, showing the hashtag amplified existing grassroots work.
Tarana Burke Calls Those Affected Survivors
- Tarana Burke prefers the term survivors instead of victims to describe people who continue with their lives after sexual abuse.
- She worked with marginalized women in neglected US communities long before celebrities used the phrase, connecting grassroots experience to the later fame of the hashtag.
Abuse Is Enabled By Power And Privilege
- Tarana Burke links abuse by figures like Weinstein to broader structures of power, privilege and capitalism rather than isolated individual wrongdoing.
- She says the value placed on money and status allowed abusers to thrive because people prized those over victims' humanity.