Many are making five years of the #MeToo movement. But it actually began several years before 2017. Here’s the full story …
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00:00I hope that the more people that come forward, it gives other people the courage to come
00:24forward.
00:32Seven hours later, there were 35,000 replies.
00:35Within 24 hours, it was tweeted 12 million times.
00:41And then within 48 hours, it had reached 82 different countries.
00:46So it was overwhelming.
01:06For those who are ready and able, standing up and saying, me too, can be a deeply cathartic
01:17experience.
01:19I was a survivor.
01:20I was a survivor of child sexual abuse and had been carrying that and not knowing what
01:25to do with it.
01:26Right?
01:27There was no, there were no outlets for it.
01:29There were no people who recognized behavior in my school and said, you should go to a
01:34counselor.
01:35There was just, um, no place to rest that thing.
01:39So I held it like most people.
01:40I know what, what Tarana Burke did was 10 years ago and, and slightly different.
01:46It was so, and I had no idea about her work then, but, um, so incredibly serendipitous
01:57how it lined up perfectly with the work that she had been doing for that time, which was
02:04about healing and putting the focus on, on women and not the abusers, um, or the predators.
02:13And that's exactly what that tweet enabled us to do was to shift the focus from the villains.
02:20And we were the protagonists.