Tarana Burke on the Birth of MeToo, Letting Black Girls ‘Just Be,’ and Leaning on Her Faith
Early one October morning in 2017, activist and writer Tarana Burke woke to the sound of her phone buzzing and rumbling incessantly. When she roused herself and checked the phone, she saw that actor Alyssa Milano had encouraged women to tweet about their experiences of sexual harassment and violence. Maybe then, Milano reasoned, the world would understand the magnitude of the issue. She urged would-be tweeters to include the words “me too” in their posts.
It was important to get it right. I wanted my first book to be about survival. People in the industry were like, “No, you have to write a memoir first.” And I was scared to write a memoir because Maya Angelou is my hero, and I always wanted to write a series of memoirs like she did. And I thought I needed to live more life.The beginning of the book takes us into that gripping scene of that morning when the hashtag goes viral.
I'm trying to chip away at that all the time. And I feel like we have to start inside the community and work our way out. I don't think I have a good answer for that, except that one of the ways I feel like I've been trying to do that is to try and continue to humanize and connect our stories.
Where do you see yourself in the scope of history? There will be a time when the #MeToo hashtag and movement may not feel so present.
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