#MeToo founder Tarana Burke: Men are not the enemy
The week before Tarana Burke walked down the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday night, everyone asked her the same questions: "What's the statement?" "Are you all going to wear black dresses?" "Are you going to wear a rose?" The founder of the #MeToo movement told them: "We don't need another 'thing'. If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble."
It was one Sunday morning in October last year when Burke awoke to find the movement she had founded in 2006 had taken on a life of its own. After it was adopted and hashtagged on Twitter by actress Alyssa Milano, multiple survivors of sexual assault were prompted to come forward. Overnight, the quiet work Burke had done spawned a social media firestorm, the kind of revolution that will be documented in history books.
The Telegraph London
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