Welcome to Unstyled. I'm your host, Christine Barberick, co-founder and global editor-in-chief of Refinery 29.

Each week, I invite a notable person to come in and talk with us as we explore the funny, inspiring,

sometimes heartbreaking tales of life, work, and love, as told through the things that we wear.

On October 15, 2017, Alyssa Milano tweeted the phrase, me too. Days earlier, a horrific litany of allegations against Harvey Weinstein had been published,

awakening and as yet unnamed demand for justice across continents. She'd heard the term from a

friend, unaware of its origins, and felt it rang true with the simmering anger brewing all around her.

Alyssa had put words to the ancient outrage of women long victimized by sexual predators,

inviting them all to stand up and say together, Me Too. By the following day, hashtag Me Too had

bloomed into a movement. The reckoning had begun. In the two years since, Alyssa has become an ever

more visible presence in the world of social justice. But she's no novice when it comes to activism.

Alyssa has been using her celebrity status to draw attention to prejudice and toxic

conservatism since she was a teenager.

In the 1980s, at the height of her Who's the Boss fame, and the peak of the U.S. AIDS crisis,

she kissed the HIV-positive youth activist Ryan White on national

television to send a message that the disease couldn't be spread through casual contact.

A shocking, but powerful move against the stigma and panic sweeping the nation.

30 years later, Alyssa says it was Ryan who taught her the lesson she still lives by.

Quote, that I had the power as a celebrity to change things and to stand up for what's right. Today, the world is once again in the

grip of panic and prejudice. And despite the horde of trolls constantly attacking her on social media,

Alyssa's commitment has only deepened and grown more fierce.

Alyssa won't back down.

In the face of adversity, she keeps talking and using her platform for good.

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