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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about how to reach into communities and support community healing on a more local level.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people - I saw black and brown girls - who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn't there.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020