Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke

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🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the rampant sexual violence she saw in her community. She took out a piece of paper, wrote "Me Too" across the top and laid out an action plan for a movement centered on the power of empathy between survivors. More than a decade later, she reflects on what has since become a global movement -- and makes a powerful call to dismantle the power and privilege that are building blocks of sexual violence. "We owe future generations nothing less than a world free of sexual violence," she says. "I believe we can build that world."

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features activist Tarana Burke recorded live at TED Women 2018.
0:07.0	I've been trying to figure out what I was going to say here for months.
0:13.0	Because there's no bigger stage than TED,
0:17.0	it felt like getting my message right in this moment was more important than anything.
0:23.4	And so I searched and searched for days on end,
0:26.3	trying to find the right configuration of words.
0:30.3	And although intellectually, I could bulletpoint the big ideas
0:33.9	that I wanted to share about Me Too
0:36.7	and this movement that I found it.
0:39.6	I kept finding myself falling short of finding the heart.
0:45.3	I wanted to pour myself into this moment and tell you why even the possibility of healing
0:52.0	or interrupting sexual violence
0:54.6	was worth standing and fighting for.
0:58.1	I wanted to rally you to your feet
1:00.4	with an uplifting speech about the important work
1:04.7	of fighting for the dignity and humanity of survivors.
1:10.4	But I don't know if I have it.
1:13.5	The reality is,
1:16.2	after soldiering through the Supreme Court nomination process
1:19.1	and attacks from the White House,
1:22.6	gross mischaracterizations,
1:25.0	internet trolls,
	...

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