In the courtroom, Tarana Burke sits watching Christine Blasey Ford give her testimony on how Brett Kavaugh, the Supreme Court’s nominee, sexually assaulted her 30 years ago. Seeing her cause sends people to the streets, singing out in protest, responding to the call of groups fighting against gender-based injustice, joining with survivors and allies. Out of the courtroom, Burke’s eyes glisten as she enters the restroom, sobbing of the pain she had witnessed of a woman who was too much like Burke, experiencing a trauma one would never be able to fully recover from. Backing up Ford, she makes clear that the strength to be in a trial fighting for your life, should never be questioned, and survivors like Burke and Ford are there to tell those who would listen, exactly how it was. Outside of that courtroom, Tarana Burke changed millions of lives, founding the “me too” movement to support survivors of sexual assault. Before Burke’s startling …show more content…
To recur, the ideas of feminism and similar campaigns have been happening long before the Me Too Movement, and because of so, conflicting ideas of how sexual misconduct should be treated and prevented and, even how one conforms to biological gender and the significant impact on survivors, has always been the topic of debate between such forward-thinking views (“#MeToo: Before and After”). If there has been debate about what constitutes sexual assault and how such matters should be treated, how can survivors and victims find a safe place where debates about their trauma won’t question it’s validity, question if the harasser should be brought to justice, and further mingle in the survivor’s life jeopardizing how matters will take place towards the justice for the survivor. Furthermore, the environment around sexual assault and who takes responsibility for the crime, who society blames. In