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‘me too.’ Global Movement

• Gender Justice
• Racial Justice
• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

The ability to live free from violence is a basic human right. But sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) persists in every country of the world. 'me too.' International ’s groundbreaking survivor-focused leadership on SGBV sparked the global #MeToo hashtag and movement for change that went viral in 2017. While the movement has achieved meaningful wins for survivors, movements like ‘me too.’ in the US and globally—especially those led by Black and Brown women—continue to be under-resourced, lacking access to core, flexible, multi-year funding and structural connections to each other.

With roots in historical and structural inequalities, SGBV is characterized by the use and abuse of power and control in public and private spheres. It manifests in multiple forms and contexts, including sexual harassment and violence; domestic violence; trafficking; rape as a weapon of war; femicide; and harmful practices such as child marriage, female genital mutilation, and dowry. Further, as with all forms of exploitation and oppression, SGBV disproportionately impacts those who are further marginalized by race, class, and other intersecting identities.

“ ‘Me too’ was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanized the world.” Tarana Burke Founder, ‘me too.’ International

A viral movement that changed the world

The ‘ me too .’ movement was founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to support survivors of sexual violence, particularly young women of color from low-wealth communities, to find pathways to healing. The movement’s vision from the beginning has been to address both the dearth of resources for survivors of sexual violence and to build a robust community of advocates and allies. In October 2017, the movement went global as the #MeToo hashtag went viral and survivors across the world came forward about their experiences with sexual assault.

From #米兔 (translated as "rice bunny,” pronounced as “mi tu”) in China to #Sex4Grades in Kenya to #uykularinkacsin (may you lose sleep) in Turkey, ‘me too.’ transcended national borders.

Tarana Burke has visited many countries since then. And as the ‘me too’ movement has grown, many countries have asked to connect with efforts in the US. Their requests have sparked the vision of a global community that centers survivor leadership through deep cross-country relationship building and practice sharing.

Much work remains to be done

‘Me too.’ activism against SGBV in the US has been transformational: it has catalyzed mass movements globally; resulted in inventive community-appropriate activism against SGBV; and energized national legislation and global policy . But there has also been a backlash against the ‘ me too . ’ movement , fueled by patriarchy and resistance to disrupting the status quo. And as a Black woman in the US, Tarana Burke has not received the kind of tangible support for her organization, including funding, necessary to scale up, sustain, and boost the movement’s impact for the long term.

Additionally, as the global spike in domestic violence during COVID-19-related lockdowns reaffirms, ending SGBV is an urgent human rights issue that transcends national and cultural boundaries.

By providing funding and other resources, Global Fund for Women aims to support the ‘me too.’ global movement in becoming a well-resourced global ecosystem that works to end SGBV and make healing and actionable support systems available to survivors.

Globally, more than one in three women experiences intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence in her lifetime.

Source: UN Women

In the US, approximately one in two transgender individuals are sexually abused or assaulted at some point in their life.

Source: 'me too.' International

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The #MeToo Movement: History, Sexual Assault Statistics, Impact

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If you use social media, you've probably seen the hashtag #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other sites. What started out as a way for survivors of sexual harassment, sexual assault , and sexual bullying to bond and share their stories has become a global movement that has sparked significant changes, both social and legal.

What's more, the movement has allowed survivors to feel supported while simultaneously initiating a national—and worldwide—conversation about the widespread issues surrounding harassment, assault, and the changes that need to be made.

The History of the #MeToo Movement

Tarana Burke, an advocate for women in New York, coined the #MeToo phrase in 2006. She aimed to empower women who had endured sexual violence by letting them know that they were not alone—that other women had suffered the same experience.

Time magazine named Burke as their Person of the Year for 2017, and she's earned the Ridenhour Prize for Courage . Today, as senior director at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, Burke speaks at events across the country.

In 2017, the New York Times published an article accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment. Actors Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan were fearlessly vocal about Weinstein's actions, which empowered many others to share their stories.

In the meantime, actor Alyssa Milano embraced the #MeToo hashtag across her social media. She'd been unaware of the phrase's origins and how quickly it would catch on, thinking of it as a simple way to create awareness, find support, and build a community of survivors.

Sexual Harassment and Assault Statistics

The issue of sexual aggression is pervasive. Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment or assault, according to a 2018 study conducted by the University of California and the non-profit Stop Street Harassment.

Although the #MeToo movement has accomplished a great deal in little time, some advocates aren't as optimistic about the successes. The issue is still on the public's radar, but sexual assault continues. It's particularly insidious for people who are transgender, Native American women, college students, members of the military, and people of color. Women remain at a higher risk for sexual assault than men. 

Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment or assault, according to a 2018 study conducted by the University of California and the non-profit Stop Street Harassment.

Harassment and assault can be devastating, often leading to substance use, suicide, psychiatric disorders such as PTSD, and other negative outcomes.

Impact of the #MeToo Movement

After Milano's tweet, Twitter users posted the hashtag almost a million times within two days, according to Twitter. The movement spilled over to Facebook, too, where about 4.7 million users shared 12 million posts in fewer than 24 hours. Years later, people continue to share their stories with the hashtag #MeToo across social media platforms.

The response was especially meaningful for people who worked with survivors of sexual assault and harassment on a daily basis, Finally, the issue they had been working tirelessly to address was gaining traction and garnering worldwide attention. The local grassroots effort Burke spearheaded had now expanded to reach a community of survivors from all walks of life.

In the wake of these disclosures, many prominent people in entertainment, sports, and politics have been exposed for sexually harassing or assaulting others.

Thus, the silence surrounding sexual harassment and assault is being broken. Many are now open to and passionate about discussing the issues. The #MeToo movement has prompted sweeping changes, such as:

• Affirmed for survivors that they are not alone
• Developed a stronger community where survivors have a voice
• Demonstrated how widespread the issue is
• Shifted social norms and opinions about the issue
• Exposed belief systems that enable abuse
• Increased compassion for survivors
• Updated and enacted laws and policies
• Created avenues for survivors to speak up and share their stories
• Broke the silence surrounding sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual bullying
• Destigmatized the issue and made it safe for discussions
• Punished many powerful men through legal action and negative public opinion
• Highlighted the need for formal antiharassment policies
• Prompted several states to ban non-disclosure agreements, which help powerful people hide their actions by buying survivors' silence
• Created the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund , which has provided legal representation to thousands of survivors
• Resulted in new legal standards by the International Labour Organization

What's Next for #MeToo?

Although positive change continues, much work remains to be done.

For example, survivors of sexual assault and harassment still endure victim-blaming , not to mention the threat of retaliation for speaking up. People need education on how perpetrators set up situations to their advantage, sometimes groom their victims, and often get away with harassment and assault.

A prime example is actor Bill Cosby's 2021 release from prison after a Pennsylvania court threw out his conviction for sexual assault, despite ample evidence. He was among the first wave of prominent people to be tried and convicted of such crimes.

Today, the phrase #MeToo is still a sign of solidarity for victims of sexual harassment and assault. Tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagram posts featuring the hashtag #MeToo still appear daily—evidence that the #MeToo movement has created awareness and a community of support.

Still, there is so much to be addressed, from changes in federal laws to real safety for survivors who speak up. Society might never be completely rid of this scourge, but efforts continue to uncover such crimes, encourage reporting without retribution, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Frequently Asked Questions

New York City women's advocate Tarana Burke first used the phrase "Me Too" in 2006. Her goal was to empower victims of sexual violence and harassment.

As awareness continues to build, many companies have enacted anti-harassment policies for their employees. Social pressure also has resulted in a cultural shift that has stigmatized sexually inappropriate behavior at work.

Tarana Burke, an advocate for women in New York, first used the phrase "Me Too" in 2006 to draw attention to the problem, in 2017, actor Alyssa Milano's tweet encouraging followers to use the #MeToo hashtag went viral, resulting in widespread exposure and adoption across social media.

Stop Street Harassment. 2018 Study on Sexual Harassment and Assault .

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#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand It, Turn to Fiction.

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By Parul Sehgal

• May 1, 2019

In “The Friend,” Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 National Book Award-winning novel, the narrator, a writing teacher, grumbles about her students’ personal essays on sexual violence. Always the same nouns, she complains to us ( scar , bruise , blood ), always the same verbs ( choke , starve , scream ). The dull, depressing sameness of these stories. Their horrifying number.

She has no way of knowing that she stars in a book that is part of a wave of its own: “#MeToo novels,” they’re called, these disparate stories of sex and power suddenly regarded as timely, and read through the lens of an unfolding movement — with happy results, I’m about to argue (irritating Nunez’s teacher, I imagine, and rather surprising myself).

It does not feel reductive to read fiction through this prism, nor will you find the numbing sameness Nunez’s narrator deplores — in fact, these books deliver us from numbing sameness. They are remarkably various, and they trouble debates that traffic in certainties. They come laden with confusion, doubt, subtlety — is it excessively earnest to call it truth ?

The original “Me too movement,” was created by the civil rights activist Tarana Burke in 2006, out of her work with young women of color who had experienced sexual abuse. Since the sexual-assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein broke in 2017, the term has been adopted as a rallying cry for survivors of all kinds of gendered violence. The “#MeToo novel” shares this range; it has been applied to everything from Lisa Halliday’s “Asymmetry,” with its gentle May-December romance, to Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel “History of Violence,” which recounts a rape and attempted murder.

There is Anna Burns’s “Milkman,” set during The Troubles and awarded the 2018 Man Booker Prize (“I hope this novel will help people think about #MeToo,” the judges’ chairman said). See also Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls” (called “an ‘Iliad’ for the age of #MeToo” in a review in this newspaper ), Miriam Toews’s “Women Talking” (a “Mennonite #MeToo novel”) and Idra Novey’s “Those Who Knew” (“the definitive #MeToo novel,” according to Entertainment Weekly). Reissues, like “The Street,” a 1946 novel by Ann Petry, are included in the category, as well as a rare #MeToo novel by a man, James Lasdun’s “Afternoon of a Faun.”

Recent feminist dystopias imagine the further erosion of reproductive rights (Bina Shah’s “Before She Sleeps,” Maggie Shen King’s “An Excess Male,” Sophie Mackintosh’s “The Water Cure,” Leni Zumas’s “Red Clocks”). Several books feature charismatic, predatory teachers, including Nunez’s “The Friend,” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and Kate Walbert’s “His Favorites.” There are revenge fantasies (Naomi Alderman’s “The Power”), romance and young adult novels that grapple with consent — even a #MeToo western .

The best of these books are heretical where narratives of sexual violence are concerned. “A History of Violence,” “His Favorites,” “Asymmetry,” “Trust Exercise,” “Those Who Knew,” “The Silence of the Girls,” “The Friend,” “Women Talking”: Their titles run together in my mind, like the fragments of a rumor I’ve heard too many times before, but the books topple conventional stories of heroes and victims. They exist as reminders of the kind of touchy ethical explorations the novel makes possible.

Adrienne Rich once wrote that Virginia Woolf’s style — that detachment and banked rage, that light, calculated charm — revealed a woman who never forgot she was being overheard, and evaluated, by men. Reading the flood of public writing about #MeToo in recent years — the op-eds and testimonies — I’d occasionally experience a prickly feeling of recognition. Here again, I’d think, was writing that stemmed from outrage, and often shame, but remained impeccably well-mannered and sure of itself, almost legalistic in structure and presentation. Necessarily, perhaps — women must constantly perform credibility. “The whole long arc of justice now crashing down that we call #MeToo has been about whether women may be in possession of facts, and whether anyone will bother to hear out those facts or believe them or, having believed them, allow those facts to have consequences,” Rebecca Solnit has written. These pieces often felt preoccupied with their imagined reception — straining to appease, convince, console — conscious of being overheard, in Rich’s phrase, but this time by women as well as men.

Not these novels. They occupy the backwaters where the writer need not pander or persuade, and can instead seek to understand, or merely complicate, something for herself. They are stories about inconsistencies and incoherence, stories that thicken the mysteries of memory and volition. In “Trust Exercise,” a woman called Karen (not her real name, she tells us) confronts her youthful relationship with a much older man and finds she cannot arrive at any comforting conclusions. She feels victimized but also entirely responsible. Her feelings for young women in similar situations are “violently mixed”; “these young women who made a bad judgment and now want to blame someone else.” She wants them to shut up but hates them for their silence; she wants them to move on but cannot forgive them if they refuse to take revenge. Where does this leave her? What should she do with her pain? (I advise against following her example. Mostly.)

“We all make our own choices,” a character in a play in “Trust Exercise” says. “Do we?” responds another. “Milkman,” a stream-of-consciousness novel dictated by a young, isolated woman stalked by a shadowy paramilitary figure, asks what sexual consent might mean to people who have never had any experience of control: “I did not know intuition and repugnance counted, did not know I had a right not to like, not to have to put up with, anybody and everybody coming near.”

#MeToo is a moment full of reappraisals — of beloved artists, public figures, ourselves. How do we respond to this feeling of unmooring? By tightening our grasp on what we have always known? By jettisoning one set of scripts for another? In “Women Talking,” based on a true story, the women and girls living in a fictitious Mennonite colony in South America called Molotschna discover that men from their community have been drugging and raping them for years. They gather in a hayloft, and decide what to do: Stay, leave, fight. Over the course of the novel, much of it written in dialogue of the plainest possible language, they ask what separates justice from punishment. They re-examine every one of their premises: “When we know something we stop thinking about it, don’t we?” one character says.

It’s a habit of mind this woman is talking about — a habit of skepticism toward the self, the ability and willingness to change your mind. These novels offer a kind of training in this way of being. They are full of narrative tripwires that force us to pay attention, reassess our reflexive responses, revise what we think the story is about. “His Favorites” has a circular structure, with vertigo-inducing shifts in time. “Trust Exercise” has odd, double-jointed sentences that flip between points of view; Karen refers to herself variously as “I,” “she” and “we” — experiencing herself as both subject and object. In “Milkman” there are no names at all — characters are “Somebody McSomebody” and “longest friend” — and only a few proper nouns. In several of these books, there is a fundamental confusion about what we are reading in the first place — is it a novel within a novel? Who is narrating? Do they have a right to the story? A striking number of these books — “The Friend,” “Asymmetry,” Trust Exercise,” “Afternoon of a Faun” and “Those Who Knew” — all involve a parallel plot, in which the story of a relationship, either lopsided or abusive, is juxtaposed with the story of a character who draws upon the experience of another in their own writing, often a tell-all.

As an acting exercise, the drama teacher in “Trust Exercise” would turn off the lights in his classroom and have the students find their way around by touch. He’d watch them, talk to them: “Is that some other creature with me, in the darkness?”

The answer, of course, is always . “We’re none of us alone in this world. We injure each other,” Choi writes. “You’re choosing for another when you make choices. We overlap. We get tangled.” We’re all here together, in the dark.

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Tarana Burke Thinks These People Represent the Future of the #MeToo Fight

F ive years ago, with one viral tweet, the “me too” movement—founded by Tarana Burke in 2006—swept the world. But even as #MeToo picked up traction on social media in response to Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behavior, the campaign to end sexual violence was never just about Hollywood. Burke has said that she worried that the focus on the entertainment industry might overshadow the grassroots work occurring in communities of color that she had been focused on, and that over the years she made a point of trying to ensure that would not be the case.

In the intervening years, the “me too” movement has changed the language we use to speak about sexual assault, provided a safe space for survivors to share their trauma, and sparked reflections about whether carceral solutions are the most effective approach to this global problem.

In an essay for TIME marking the anniversary of that Oct. 15, 2017, tweet, Burke reflected on how she hopes the movement’s future also centers survivors and the creation of a world in which the systems that led so many to say “me too” can finally change. “More than any law that has been passed or policy that has been changed in the past five years, this movement has created visibility and community for those of us who thought we might go to our grave bearing a shame that was never ours to carry in the first place,” she wrote.

Read more: What ‘Me Too’ Made Possible

A key component of what comes next is those who will shape the future phase of the fight.

Here are five organizations and individuals Burke tells TIME she feels are leading the way in the movement for sexual justice. They have worked to increase the age of consent, to protect Chicago’s low-wage workers and Atlanta’s Black trans women, and to address the root causes of childhood sexual abuse.

me too. International Team

At the official “me too” movement organization, the international team has been harnessing political power for survivors on multiple fronts. They teach leadership and organizing skills to survivors, and have also created a Survivors’ Agenda coalition with detailed values and policy demands related to alternatives to the criminal legal system, community safety, education, and health care regulations. Over the last year, the team has been focused on healing programs for survivors and building a global network in partnership with Global Fund for Women . The team is led by CEO Dani Ayers, CCO Denise Beek, and CSO Nikita Mitchell. “These three women collectively have an extensive track record in movement work,” Burke says. “They are the braintrust of the ‘me too’ organization and will carry the work forward under this umbrella and others in years to come.”

SNaP Co (Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative)

Atlanta-based SNaP Co launched in 2013 as a direct response to Atlanta’s city council’s attempts to criminalize sex workers, which eventually failed. Since then, the group has organized around addressing police sexual harassment and assault of Black trans women in the Georgia city. SNaP Co also documents community members’ harmful experiences with local law enforcement and conducts comprehensive surveys about their relationships with police, and has partnered with the city to divert people from the Atlanta City Detention Center. Executive director Toni-Michelle Williams “brings all of herself and her training as an artist, somatics coach, and organizer into her work,” says Burke.

Healing to Action

Healing to Action grew out of the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence, which focused on sexual violence against low-wage workers in Chicago. The organization currently helps survivors heal through community programs that also provide skills to organize against systemic gender-based violence. The group runs campaigns to ensure that Chicago public school students receive adequate sex ed and operates workshops for organizers to build skills to support survivors. Healing to Action is led by Sheerine Alemzadeh, an activist and daughter of Iranian immigrants, and Karla Altmayer, a lawyer who grew up on Chicago’s South Side. “Co-founders Sheerine and Karla are committed to expanding the movement to end sexual violence by developing the leadership of survivors of sexual violence,” Burke says, “and ensuring that we are at the forefront of power building and decision making about our own futures.”

The Heal Project

The Heal Project is focused on preventing childhood sexual abuse through addressing its systemic root causes, working “through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation,” as the group puts it. The group provides training, programs, and media for colleges, organizations, and conferences on this topic, and is led by Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera, a Black-Boricua and Taíno cultural sociologist, and Aredvi Azad, an Irani-American certified sex and relationship coach. Rivera says the group is often overlooked when it comes for funding because they don’t take a traditional approach in trying to eradicate childhood sexual abuse. For example, part of their focus is on reworking how children are taught to unconditionally accept what adults say.

Cierra Fields

Cierra Fields is a sexual-assault-awareness advocate, a cancer survivor and member of the Cherokee Nation. As Burke points out, the White House honored her organizing work by recognizing her as a changemaker in 2016. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Fields pushed for the tribal council to raise the age of consent from 14 to 16 . Fields is also known for her advocacy around cancer and inadequate health care for indigenous populations.

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Introduction, the origin and evolution of the metoo movement, the main aim of the movement, the life cycle of the movement, references:.

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