#MeToo will not be derailed by the reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction

Apr 26 2024 by Fast Company

Tarana Burke reassured survivors that the movement will survive any legal setbacks.

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again.

So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself again declaring after New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape...

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