Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter. And in the previous podcast, I was

speaking with Deborah Howard, who is an organizational development diversity consultant.

She wrote a book called Repairing the Quilt of Humanity, a metaphor for

healing. And in that discussion, I mentioned Tarana Burke. She is the actual founder of the hashtag

Me Too. And my goodness, I said, let me bring that conversation back because in this time,

I think it is so appropriate that we remember and also have the

origin story for how we move forward. So up next, my discussion with Tarana Burke, hashtag Me Too,

stay tuned. She is the creator of the hashtag Me Too. It wouldn't be a whole movement unless

this woman decided to do something. She's like Rosa Parks up in this piece.

Yeah, I'm going to do that.

I'm going to do that to you.

Don't do that. Bronx native, of course. We're welcome to the show, the one and only Tarana. Burk. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. Yes. We're glad to finally be here. You know, pleasant person. we were talking before you got here about safe spaces. Yesterday, we were,

you know, on this, there's a retreat for black women in Costa Rica, you know. Oh, I heard about this.

Yes. And some people were in their feelings. Why can't I come? You know, you know. And I was

thinking about it because I said, you know, Tiran's going to be here. Me Too has kind of taken on its own life form.

And it's not for black women per se.

But does Me Too show up differently for us?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, because sexual violence shows up differently for us

and how it's responded to both in and outside of our community

is different. So I think this is an interesting question I get all the time about black

women being left out of the Me Too movement and black people begin forgetting in the Me Too

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