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#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

by Lori Perkins
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#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened,

What It Means and How To Make Sure It Never Happens Again

More than 16 million people had posted their #MeToo story and support against sexual harassment by mid-October as a reaction to Rose McGowan’s brave admission that she had allegedly been raped by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.  A groundswell of reaction to and exposure of this sexual predation was unleashed that has spread throughout Europe and beyond. New revelations of unacceptable behavior in every industry break every day as people come forward in response to the viral #MeToo posts. Protests are scheduled such as the "Take back the Workplace” Hollywood march in November of 2017, and legislation is being drafted in New York and California to finally change the way things have been for far too long.

This is the turning point. Things are going to change.

This is an historic moment and it needs to be memorialized, passed around and passed on. Although social media is a fantastic means of igniting a fire, it needs to keep burning, like a torch.

So Riverdale Avenue Books, a woman-owned leading hybrid publisher, is putting its money, words and power, behind this and publishing this collection of 26 essays from people who understand want to make this change, and we, as a society, have got to figure out a way to drive that change forward.

So pass this book around. Share it with your sons, brothers, fathers, your daughters, sisters and mothers, your co-workers and friends.  Read passages to them, if they won’t read it for themselves. Leave it on the desk of someone who should know better.

Help us make this movement more than a hashtag.


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Rebekah L
6/30/2019

#MeToo gives many women and men the opportunity to come forward with what they have experienced with regard to sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape. This is an important book as it shines a light on just how much these things happen to many different people today and in recent years.


Daniel Casey
6/30/2019

Not unproblematic in parts (mostly due to intersectional concerns) but overall a solid collection giving readers an active grounding in the MeToo movement


Jen Tidman
5/24/2019

The #MeToo movement originally began in 2006 but took off in 2017 with the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, and demonstrates the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. As a woman, I both sadly and unsurprisingly, can also say #MeToo and I suspect that not one of my female friends, family members or colleagues could say "not me". As a book, #MeToo is a variety of essays, written by women and male allies in the immediate wake of Weinstein's unmasking, covering the contributors' personal experiences with sexual harassment, assault, or rape; how toxic masculinity and patriarchal systems facilitate misogyny and violence; and how we can make personal, cultural and societal shifts in order to stop such abuses happening in the future. This is not the kind of collection you can exactly say you enjoyed, but it is important, timely and thought provoking, and I appreciated the effort to include diverse voices including male, POC and LGBTQ authors. I suspect that women will be most drawn to this title, but it's a worthwhile (even essential) read for everyone, particularly men who want to know how they can act as feminist allies for the cause.


Alice Storey
4/3/2019

This is such an amazing book! Particularly poignant as I read it following Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the US Supreme Court. It will upset you, make you angry, but most of all it will make you want to stand up and fight against this misogyny.


Marian Griffin
4/3/2019

Incredibly relevant, powerful, and timely. Absolutely required and essential reading for understanding, empathy, and forging a better path forwards.

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From After #MeToo by A M Carley

The #MeToo social media hashtag, first coined more than ten years ago by Tarana Burke, exploded in October 2017, after a boost from Alyssa Milano, in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s fall. Its popularity demonstrates that lots of women — and some men — have experienced sexual harassment or assault, and are prepared to go public about it.

After #MeToo

There’s no need to document any further the existence of sexism and male privilege in our lives. It’s pervasive. What we need now is to blow out the remaining parts of the systems that perpetuate it. How? I like to think there are a few things we can do.

Promote Girl Power

If we can’t argue fairness or realism or progressive social policy or ethical behavior or justice, what can we do? We can build a better future. A future in which five-year-old girls, and boys, can recognize when physical contact feels unwelcome to them, give voice to their objection, and be supported for it.

A future in which ten-year-old girls can form independent opinions about the world around them — exploring history, economics, music, math, philosophy, writing, building, science, art, social policy, friendship. A future in which they can give voice to their thoughts, develop their skills — including physical skills — and be respected for them.

A future in which 18-year-old young women can cast their first votes based on their own values and their own research. A future in which, if a boy or man (or Stockholm Syndrome-afflicted woman) tries to influence any of those girls at any of those moments, the girls can shrug, perhaps scoff, calmly walk away, and move along, unfazed.

Trust Community and Therapy

Many trauma survivors have emerged from their injuries because of the care and support that they receive from others. In community, our stories can be shared.

In addition, therapy retroactively can repair some or all of the injury for at least some trauma survivors. So those of us who came of age in the pervasive culture of sexism, only to meet its violent manifestations in alleyways, offices, cars, hotels, and everywhere else imaginable, may still sustain hope. Freedom from the internalized ghosts of that dying culture may still be attainable for us.

Mobilize

We are enough.

Each of us is enough.

Collectively we are enough.

Do What You Do Well

Whether that’s organizing a march on Washington, a postcard-writing campaign, or a fundraiser, go with your strengths. If your talents are in the arts, go out to the barn and put on a show, make a mural, or draft a manifesto. You get the idea. And if you’ve got the makings of a politician, see below.

Vote the Rascals Out

It goes without saying that each of us has a responsibility to vote for viable candidates, and, wherever possible, to provide additional support — through volunteering, lobbying, and contributing — to candidates campaigning for women’s rights. We can show up at the seats of government and influence the agenda in every way possible.

Just as we can’t assume young thugs will change their ways, neither can we assume that the politicians responsible for permitting and/or supporting the systematic destruction of this country’s hard-won egalitarian policies will change theirs. Those of us who are able should seriously consider running for office, and the sooner the better. As for the elected officials on the side of the angels, they are straining to defend us against incessant barrages from the Right. They need our support.









Copyright © 2017 Lori Perkins

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Lori Perkins

Lori Perkins is the editor/author of 25 erotic romance anthologies including the first zombie romance short story collection, HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE, as well as the anthology 50 WRITERS ON 50 SHADES OF GREY, which looks at the erotic romance phenom from 50 points of view,  She is the founder of the L. Perkins Literary Agency, and a former adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. She lives in New York City.

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