Me, Not You
Me, Not You The Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Far too often, the message is…
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Me, Not You
The Me Too movement, started by Black feminist Tarana Burke in 2006, went viral as a hashtag eleven years later after a tweet by white actor Alyssa Milano. Far too often, the message is not 'Me, Too' but 'Me, Not You'. Mainstream movements like #MeToo have often built on and co-opted the work of women of colour, while refusing to learn from them or centre their concerns.
Privileged white women also sacrifice more marginalised people to achieve their aims, or even define them as enemies when they get in the way.Me, not you argues that the mainstream movement against sexual violence expresses a political whiteness that both reflects its demographics and limits its revolutionary potential. Alison Phipps argues that this is not just a lack of solidarity. Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage, while relying on state power and bureaucracy to