Activism Annotated Bibliography

For this week’s social actuvism, I would like to talk about the “Me Too” movement that just started recently. The Me Too movement is a movement against sexual harassment and assault. It started out as a hashtag on the internet during October 2017, it was to raise awareness in the sexual harassment happening to men or women mainly in workplace. It followed soon after the public revelations of sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein. This phrase was popularized by Alyssa Milano to encourage women to tweet about it. It soon followed by many other famous actresses and actors to speak up for themselves.

I feel like this is an really important time for people who have been sexually harassed but could not or are too afraid to speak about it. It lets them know that it is okay and they should not be ashamed of  what happened to them. This movement also let lots of people know about the dirty secret behind Hollywood and how many people are treated unfairly, and how many people just got away with it.

Raising the awareness of sexual assault lets people face this problem more serious. It is things that happens every day and maybe around us. Often the victims are blamed or be targeted because of how they dressed and how they shouldn’t have been alone is certain places, but the Me Too movement could possibly help them know that it isn’t them to blame.


Above is the official site for the Me Too movement.

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