It’s been more than three years since the #MeToo movement launched a culture-shifting conversation about sexual violence. But Tarana Burke, the activist who gave the movement its name, says concrete change has been incremental at best — and especially for Black survivors.
Now, Burke is part of a new initiative — called “We, As Ourselves” — in which three prominent groups are focusing on those survivors, who she says often feel that #MeToo has passed them by.
In an interview, Burke said that when #MeToo exploded into view in 2017, a result of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, "Black women just kept saying, ‘Where are WE?
Where ARE we? Where do we show up?’” “The world was changing but we weren't being swept up in those changes,” she said. “It’s