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

by Tarana Burke

The story of how empathy for others—without which the work of ‘me too’ doesn’t exist—starts with empathy for that dark place of shame where we keep our stories, and where I kept mine.

It is true that there were very few resources in the hood, but it was the first place I learned the value of using what you have to create what you need. People struggled, but they also built. The stories of neighborhoods reclaiming and rebuilding burned-out buildings don’t often get told.