Conclusion

The #MeToo movement is one active today, and though not at all founded as recently as 2017, what unfolded in that year certainly aided in sustaining the motion of the movement into today. This project worked to address the creation of narratives by victims of workplace sexual assault and violence, especially as those narratives took shape virtually in the boom of hashtag activism. Today, we see plenty of examples of hashtag activism for a variety of causes, such as #SayHerName, #CeasefireNow, and #BlackLivesMatter, to name a few. I also suggested a connection between the boom of women’s movements in 2017 such as the Women’s March on D.C. and MeToo via the Silence Breakers and the inauguration of Trump in January 2017. In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in December 2017, researchers found that 1 in 6 women believed that the country had not made sufficient progression toward equal rights for women. In light of Tarana Burke’s mission statement, as well as her concern for the progression of the movement as she noticed a lack of focalization of marginalized populations, I concluded by providing critique of the movement specific to the more contemporary understanding of MeToo ¹⁴.

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