I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
Tarana BurkeRead
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the challenges faced by victims of sexual harassment in seeking justice due to financial and legal barriers.
Tarana Burke's quote sheds light on the struggles many individuals experience when confronted with sexual harassment. It emphasizes the importance of addressing the systemic inequalities that hinder access to legal resources and representation, preventing victims from standing up for their rights and seeking justice in a society that often overlooks their plight.
In practice
In a panel discussion on women's rights, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for accessible legal support for harassment victims.
I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.
We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.
I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support.
Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.
A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.
I feel like young girls are told, I donβt know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. Itβs bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess Iβd be a warrior princess definitely.
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.
If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
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