Friday, 30 November 2018

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

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Today's TED Talk

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

16:15 minutes · TEDWomen 2018

In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the 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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