Smash patriachy and advance safety and gender equality

EVERY now and then, the treatment of women at the hands of men who hold power over them has been brought into public discussion, making visible the so-often private tragedies that women have endured everywhere, including their homes and places of work.

Not long ago, the #MeToo movement, a social movement against sexual abuse and sexual harassment where people publicised allegations of sex crimes committed by powerful and/ or prominent men, was the toast of the world.

While many of the women who have led the #MeToo movement have been Hollywood-based wealthy, white and privileged, issues of sexual violence and exploitation intersect with issues of class, race and economic power in ways that we ignore at our peril.

Here at home, there was the #MenAreTrash movement