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Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began using MeToo to help other women with similar experiences to stand up for themselves. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano and other women began using it to tweet about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. The phrase and hashtag quickly developed into a broad-based, and eventually international movement.

Time named Burke, among a group of other prominent activists dubbed "the silence breakers", as the Time Person of the Year for 2017. Burke presents at public speaking events across the country and is currently Senior Director at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn.

Harvard University published a case study on Burke. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. September 1973
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Tarana Burke Quotes

“There is inherent strength in agency. #MeToo, in a lot of ways, is about agency. It’s not about giving up your agency.”

Tarana Burke

Source: quoted in #MeToo founder Tarana Burke: ‘You have to use your privilege to serve other people’, Emma Brockes, 15 Jan 2018, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/me-too-founder-tarana-burke-women-sexual-assault,

“Our work is about supporting survivors by providing resources for healing and action. If in the course of that process a perpetrator is held accountable for their actions - so be it. But our goal is not to ‘take down’ individuals it’s to dismantle systems that give them cover.”

Tarana Burke

Source: [1017753906728890369, TaranaBurke, Our work is about supporting survivors by providing resources for healing and action., en, Burke, Tarana, Jul 13, 2018, https://twitter.com/TaranaBurke/status/1017753906728890369, 2022-01-25]

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