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Founder of #MeToo movement makes efforts to expand dialogue around sexual violence survivors

June 8, 2022

The #MeToo hashtag exploded in popularity in 2017 with countless stories from survivors of sexual violence. Five years later, the founder of the movement, Tarana Burke, continues to educate and organize against injustice with a unique approach of ‘revolutionary grace,’ inspired by the women who paved the way before her.

View her story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”

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