Tarana Burke on the Past and Future of MeToo
, will see some part of themselves in my story or feel a connection. I think there has to be more literature in the world that helps people navigate this world, navigate their own lives. Because life is hard and it's long. People keep saying “Life is short.” But I'm like, “It's the longest thing you'll ever do.” And we need some support in that.
Also this book—this is gonna sound crazy because everybody can't write a book—was a form of self-care for me, because I needed to get this story out of my body. When I was finally done, I thought,. This is all of the stuff I'd packed away very gingerly...but I hadn’t vocalized them. So the self-care lesson for everybody who's not gonna go write a book is: rid yourself of the toxicity that we generate.
It would have been helpful to hear it once. It would have been amazing to have that as a constant in my life. And I feel like that's the way I tried to set up my life so that I have access to young people, particularly young Black people, young Black girls and non-binary people, who need to hear it constantly in different ways, need to see it, and need to see it in practice.
. In my story, I wasn't afraid that my stepfather, even my mother wouldn't believe me [about my assault]. I was afraid of the fallout if theybelieve me…[I thought then that] I would put my whole family in a tailspin [if I told them]. And that's because what I heard over and over and over again: “Somebody bother you, somebody touch you, I'll kill them.” And while that may feel like you're making the child feel safe, [you also make them scared of consequences].
#MeToo founder Tarana Burke alongside other rally organizers at a Survivors March in Hollywood, California in 2017We’ve had this significant progress in actually a short period of time because usually movements take a long time. And I think we've been deceived into believing they're supposed to yield massive results in very short periods of time. That's why history is important. That's why it's important to be grounded in an understanding of how we got here.
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