#MeToo: A Moment or a Movement?
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Tarana Burke. Photo courtesy of Cruïlla Festival.
It is a movement of survivors; millions of victims of sexual violence demand with one voice an end to impunity for assailants. #MeToo is a community to find understanding and support.
“My vision for the #MeToo movement is part of a collective vision to see a world free of sexual violence.” Those are the words of Tarana Burke, founder of the movement in 2006.
She knows well the psychological consequences of sexual violence because she experienced it three times when she was young. She felt lonely and vulnerable, but she found a way to overcome it thanks to the support of the closest people in her life. Her activism was born of the support she received; her goal was to create a community to help victims like her.
In 2006, she founded Just Be Inc., a non-profit youth organization which gives support to black women who have been victims of sexual violence.
But the #MeToo movement didn’t spread globally until 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano asked women all over the world to use it to report any situation of sexual assault or harassment that they had lived.
Since then, the impact of #MeToo around the globe has been amazing. A lot of public personalities have joined the campaign, revealing a massive number of cases of sexual assault.
Still, Burke says that we have to be careful with this global spread of the movement because she is concerned about the dangers of "women speaking about their experiences in the social networks and not having a safe space to process it." That’s why she says that the movement shouldn’t lose its focus: to help victims and to end sexual violence.
The #MeToo movement is more alive than ever before and, on July 1st, Tarana Burke will analyze it at Cruïlla Talks.
- Tarana Burke interviewed by Lucía Lijtmaer.
- Time and place: Monday, July 1st at 7 PM, at CCCB.
- Duration: 60 minutes + viewers’ questions.
- Ticket price: 2€ donation to the NGO Proactiva Open Arms
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