With Unbound, the #MeToo founder tells her own story
Burke’s memoir,, is an unwavering, unapologetic claim of ownership of two small yet powerful words that played a crucial role in Burke’s life and, ultimately, in the lives of the women and girls she guided before and after“The story of how empathy works for others—without which the work of ‘me too’ doesn’t exist—starts with empathy for that dark place of shame where we keep our stories and where I kept mine,” she writes.
For Burke, “me too” was never a single organization or a single strategy—it was years of grassroots work in schools and community gathering spaces where she could speak to young people who didn’t have access to professional counseling. Instead, they had Burke and others like her, who went above and beyond to secure resources and find safe emotional outlets for victims of sexual violence who couldn’t even tell their families what had been done to them.
The only word that comes close to describing Burke’s memoir is powerful, and even that seems to fall short of capturing the experience of reading this book. Its power is twofold, first in Burke’s claim on #MeToo, especially in the current cultural environment where creators of color frequently have their ideas repurposed and repackaged for a profit they never see. Burke pulls no punches, clearly stating Me Too is hers and not.
Reading the first-hand account of a Black woman refusing to step aside for women with more clout is a much-needed reminder for organizers and creators of color who face a similar landscape. Burke was acutely aware of the erasure that can happen when white people discover and become involved with ideas and works which have had their foundations laid by Black and brown people.
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