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Creation
Activist Tarana Burke created the campaign in 2007 as a way to reach sexual assault survivors in underprivileged communities. It originated online as a hashtag. -
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#MeToo
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Viral Sexaul Harassment
Harvey Weinstein, an American former film producer for Miramx accused of sexually harassing the Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez used nondisclosure agreements like the one Gutierrez signed to evade accountability for claims of sexual harassment and assault for at least twenty years. -
#MeToo begins to go viral
October 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano wrote: "If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet." She was then made aware of an earlier #MeToo movement, and provided the link to site of Ms. Burke. Milano credits her identification with the Me Too movement to being personally affected by sexual harassment during a concert when she was only 19. -
Golden Globes
Nearly all women in attendance, and many of the men, wore all black in a sign of solidarity for #MeToo and the Time’s Up initiative — a response to the gender inequality and sexual harassment prevalent in both the film industry and society as a whole. Oprah Winfrey used the end of her eight-minute speech, which focused mostly on the #MeToo movement.
