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Me Too Movement Founder Tarana Burke: Sexual Violence Is A Type Of Death

Me Too Movement Founder Tarana Burke: Sexual Violence Is A Type Of Death

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Me Too Movement Founder Tarana Burke: Sexual Violence Is A Type Of Death

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Sep 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Season 3 of All Ears kicks off with a rich and varied conversation with Me Too Movement founder Tarana Burke. Thought you knew the Me Too story? Think again! Burke’s inspiring new memoir Unbound: My Story Of Liberation And The Birth Of The Me Too Movement is out this week. Burke has been in the trenches of movement work for the better part of two decades, transforming her own experience as a survivor into a vision for helping those in crisis to get help and those dealing with past trauma to heal. Working for so long at a grassroots level, primarily in communities of color, Burke tells Abby that her focus is for the benefit of all: “[My work] never, ever leaves anybody out. There’s not a single white woman who will not benefit from my work being grounded in or centering black women and girls.” Tune in for an inspiring conversation!Find Tarana on Twitter: @TaranaBurke and @MeTooMVMTContent Warning: This episode contains discussion of rape and sexual assault.EPISODE LINKSUnbound: My Story Of Liberation And The Birth Of The Me Too Movement (Tarana Burke)Me Too Movement website21st Century Leadership MovementBefore the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Lerone Bennett)Maya Angelou book covers (Google)You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (Tarana Burke & Brené Brown, editors)
Released:
Sep 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.