me too movement
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‘We’re Dancing to These Women’s Pain’: Female Activists Escalate Protests Against R. Kelly—and Call Out RCA and Sony
If residents of Culver City, Calif., look to the sky above the Sony Music headquarters from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. PST on Friday, they’ll see a plane bearing a banner that reads: “RCA/SONY: DROP SEXUAL PREDATOR R. KELLY.” The plane has been commissioned by national women’s organization UltraViolet. The women’s group is calling out…
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Top Dallas R&B Radio Stations Saw Something Wrong With R. Kelly's Bump N' Grind—and Banned His Music
Almost a week after Lifetime’s docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, we’ve been issued the remix to conviction with Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney’s Office opening up an investigation against the “Pied Piper of R&B” for his years of allegedly abusing black women and girls. And today, two prominent Dallas radio stations, KRNB and K104, have vowed…
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After Surviving R. Kelly, What Now? How About Trusting Survivors and Dismantling Systemic Misogynoir?
Three nights of television recently rocked the black community—surprising, since they detailed approximately three decades of well-known allegations of predation, exploitation and abuse by R&B artist R. Kelly. But if Lifetime’s record-breaking documentary Surviving R. Kelly finally put a human face onto the collective trauma so many women involved with the entertainer claimed to be…
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Lena Dunham, Your Support Doesn't Mean My Survival
Well, that only took a year. At The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 Women in Entertainment Power 100 luncheon, the relentlessly problematic Lena Dunham made yet another in a long series of public apologies for her behavior; this time to actress Aurora Perrineau. As you may or may not recall, as the #MeToo movement gathered steam in…
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'I Am Numb': Tarana Burke Gets Real About the Cost of Leading—and Living—#MeToo
“This movement is constantly being called a ‘watershed moment’ or even a reckoning,” Tarana Burke told the audience at TED Women 2018. “But I wake up some days feeling like all evidence points to the contrary. … It’s hard not to feel numb.” It was an unexpected admission from the founder of the Me Too…
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Why the Democratic Party Hasn’t Canceled Keith Ellison—For Now
Less than a month after Al Franken was accused of groping a woman, the U.S. senator from Minnesota resigned from his seat under pressure from his Democratic colleagues. Two months have passed since Rep. Keith Ellison, also a Democrat from Minnesota, was accused of assaulting a woman. He is still deputy chairman of the Democratic…
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Not Like This: Melania Trump Tries to Middle Ground #MeToo (and Frankly, It’s Gross)
You know, there are times I actually feel sorry for Melania Trump. (Sorry, brain freeze.) But seriously, what must it feel like to go from a station in life where Vogue was producing cover stories on your wedding and opulent, gold-plated lifestyle to high-fashion shade like this: On her recent first major solo trip abroad…
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‘Your Sacrifice Was Not in Vain’: Tarana Burke, Tracee Ellis Ross and More Pen ‘Love Letter’ to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, some of the most visible female activists of our generation joined forces to give their thanks, support and love to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford after her Sept. 27 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, compelling testimony that was nonetheless unable to thwart the confirmation of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. #MeToo…
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White Woman #101: Believe It or Not, Rose McGowan Is a Member of #MeToo, Not Its Messiah
Hell hath no fury like Rose McGowan when she’s not the center of attention. That is the only conclusion this writer could draw after hearing the actress-turned-activist’s recent remarks on the #MeToo and Time’s Up Movements—the former a movement she still claims to proudly (and loudly) represent. In a recent, frequently self-aggrandizing and sensationalistic interview…
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Newsflash: It’s Not the First Anniversary of #MeToo. It’s the First Anniversary of the World Giving A Damn
If you’re active on social media, you may have been greeted with a very important anniversary this morning: the one-year anniversary of the #MeToo movement. Yay! And if you’re anything like this writer, seeing tweets like this one by an otherwise credible news source, the Daily Beast, pissed you the entire hell off. The reasons…