Power Trip
Reflections on #MeToo, From a Founder of the Women’s Liberation Movement
A feminist icon on the persistence required to equalize power in America
“The good news about all this bad news is that more people know.”
— Canadian singer-songwriter and social activist Buffy Sainte-Marie, NPR interview, 9/28/2018
October 15, 2018 marks the one-year anniversary of the #MeToo Movement, when women started sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse on Twitter using the now-famous hashtag.
The surge came on the heels of disclosures in the New York Times of sexual abuse by film producer Harvey Weinstein, and was quickly followed by a succession of outings of influential men forced to step down from positions of power in government, entertainment, and business. Less than a year before that, the Women’s March on Washington was sparked by the election of President Donald Trump, despite the release of a video where he bragged about assaulting women. And now, women are again raising their voices in protest of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, as we did when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas 27 years…
