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.Collection: Anger
Social media is not a safe space.Collection: Space
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.Collection: Sympathy
If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work.Collection: Work
For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity.Collection: Teacher
I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words.Collection: Beauty
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.Collection: Space
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.Collection: Legal
We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.Collection: Leadership
The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Famous
People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.Collection: Hope
I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.
We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel?
I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is.
Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person.
I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.
I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support.
In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.
We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.
I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'
Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'
Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.
Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.
Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute.
If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance.
Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.
Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.
We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like.
I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that.
People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated.
I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now.
There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash?
I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'
I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent.
There is always a way to get what you need, and I really believe in taking what you have to make what you need.
I don't work for Hollywood.
The world doesn't realise I have a regular job!
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.
We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple.
We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.
'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world.
Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.
What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.
I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.
Sexual harassment does bring shame.