Tarana Burke Archives - Public Seminar

Feminism

Why #MeToo Isn’t Enough

The Morning Show wrestles with the ambiguities of workplace sexual harassment—and how complicated the truth really is

February 25, 2021 • by Claire Potter

"Can the word “rape” describe the experience of a woman who submits to sex, but only because she is so frightened she lost her capacity to move or speak?"...

Sex & Gender

The Weinstein Trial and the #MeToo Movement

February 26, 2020 • by Britta Reuther and Chiara Bottici

--- Britta Reuther: How did the Weinstein case change society when it comes to tolerating sexual harassment? Chiara Bottici: It did not change the thing itself, but it did change certain established ways to perceive it. In the American Society, until a few decades ago, sexual harassment did not even exist as a ...

The Weinstein Trial and the #MeToo Movement

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A Conversation We Must Not Stop Having

The #MeToo movement

February 5, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

I tried to speak out. I told our homeroom teacher and she yelled at the boys in our class in front of the girls, telling them that this was wrong. But no real disciplinary measures were taken. Most of the boys (at least in my class) engaged in non-consensual touching, ...

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Girl Scouts, #MeToo, and HIV/AIDS

Past Present Episode 104

November 4, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Girl Scouts in light of the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit girls, #MeToo activism, and how Michael Friedman’s recent death of HIV/AIDS helps us understand the illness in historical context.

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