34. UNBOUND with Tarana Burke—Part 1

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Please join us in the first part of our joyful, energizing, and hopeful conversation with activist, advocate, and our personal hero,Tarana Burke. We talk about: 1. How the spoken and unspoken rules for girls led Tarana to constantly perform the role of “good girl” so that “her secret” would never be revealed. 2. The impossible double bind so many survivors live through: that the protection of our community is what saves us, but the need to protect our community is what silences us. 3. Why Maya Angelou’s work changed everything for Tarana—and how, in her early twenties, she began documenting everything joyful in her life. 4. How dancing with Rob was the one place Tarana could safely explore her sexuality with no demands on her body—and how meaningful that was for her. CW: We reference sexual abuse and trauma. About Tarana: For more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the ‘me too.’ movement, which to date has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world. Book: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Instagram: @taranajaneen Twitter: @TaranaBurke To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I walk through a fire I came out the other side.
0:13.2	Hi everybody, thank you for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:18.2	Today is a very special day.
0:21.4	You are going to be happy to join us for this one because today we are talking with our
0:25.8	dear friend and hero, Tarana Burke.
0:32.3	You should know that we talk in this episode about sexual abuse and trauma and some heavy
0:37.2	things and so if you need to protect yourself from that please do.
0:40.1	But also please know that this conversation is one of the most joyful energizing and
0:45.2	hopeful conversations you'll hear.
0:48.4	It's like the paradox of the profits, right?
0:51.2	The flip side of carrying pain is this extraordinary gift of holding and spreading joy and there
0:56.8	is nobody who shows us that gorgeous paradox more beautifully than Tarana Burke.
1:04.1	So you can do hard things.
1:06.3	You can share in this hard joyful, so witnessing, hard, extending conversation.
1:11.4	For more than 25 years activist and advocate, Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection
1:17.4	of sexual violence and racial justice fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence
1:22.4	and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people particularly
1:27.7	black women and girls.
1:30.0	Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources
1:35.4	and support for impacted communities including the Me Too movement which state has galvanized
1:41.7	millions of survivors and allies around the world.
1:45.2	Tarana is my personal hero.
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