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Social media is not a safe space.
Sexual harassment does bring shame.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.
The world doesn't realise I have a regular job!
I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.
Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.
Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that.
I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.
In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.
We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.
Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.
Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute.
'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.
'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world.
I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is.
When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.
If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work.
I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated.
I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent.
If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.
What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.
We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.
People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.
The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities.
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.
Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.
I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'
You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.
Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.
We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.
We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.
If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance.
When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.
I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.
'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.
I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14.
I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.
'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.
We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.
I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company.
I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.
I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.
Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.