Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

by Tarana Burke

Death in the flesh sometimes seems like a less excruciating way to succumb than the slow and steady venom unleashed by mean-spirited, cruel words and actions that poison you over time.

This unkindness creates a particular kind of vulnerability. It makes the recipient ashamed, coercing us to be participants in our own torment.

I began to put away the memory of what the boy had done to me because of what I thought it said about me.