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The Laverne Cox Show

Reclaiming MeToo w/ Tarana Burke

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6770 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Activist, advocate and founder of the MeToo Movement, Tarana Burke, joins Laverne to assess where we are in the fight to stop sexual violence since MeToo went viral in 2017.

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0:00.0

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0:31.9

Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland audio in partnership with IHeart Radio.

0:41.7

We know the painful history of black men in law enforcement and black men being

0:46.9

falsely accused, mostly by white women, mostly, right?

0:52.4

That is a truth.

0:56.3

Nobody's trying to ignore that or erase it.

0:59.8

What actually gets erased is that we focus on that conversation and we don't focus on the sexual violence is weaponized against black women too.

1:04.2

Amen.

1:10.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Laverne Cox Show. I'm Laverne Cox.

1:16.1

It's been more than three years since hashtag Me Too went viral and the country experienced a

1:22.3

reckoning around sexual harassment and violence we had never seen before. It was my hope that many necessary conversations would finally happen around consent and what

1:32.9

envisioning a world without sexual violence might look like and the systemic change that

1:38.7

could make that vision a reality.

1:41.5

Those conversations certainly have been happening, but I feel like they've often been

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