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About Tarana Burke
American activist from New York City
Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City, known for starting the Me Too movement. She began the work in 2006 through a youth program for junior and high school students. Burke launched Me Too to confront the widespread sexual violence affecting her community. In 2017, #MeToo spread into a global movement after Alyssa Milano urged women to use the phrase online in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein abuse cases.
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Empathy: more sayings
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More Shame quotes
- “There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we a…”Hilaire Belloc
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Books by Tarana Burke
Unbound
2021
You Are Your Best Thing
2021