#BlackHistoryMonth Unbound

FEBRUARY

33. by Tarana Burke (no photo)

Finish date: 24 February 2022
Genre: memoir
Rating: B

Good news: #MeToo Movement: The movement was started in 2006 by a Black activist named Tarana Burke. Initially, the movement was focused on women of color….and their experiences with sexual violence. In 2017, white women began using the phrase as a hashtag. Their embrace caused the movement to gain a great deal of prominence This is Ms Burke’s story…

Personal: To quote the author  just sums up the core message: “When you’ve experienced trauma, it fundamentally destroys part of you. But that doesn’t mean that what you create from those pieces isn’t a beautiful thing.” I must admit….this was a difficult book to read. To Ms Burke’s credit who is a survivor of sexual assault herself, she has made it her mission with the #MeToo Movement, to find a way to let other women know that they were not alone. Intense…and unapologetically frank…fearless memoir that I probably never would have read…but it is a way to challenge myself to learn who Tarana Burke  is and why she is a survivor. Ms Burke was one of the TIME’S persons of the year: The Silence Breakers.