SOCIAL
HOW #METOO CHANGED OUR LIVES WRITTEN BY
Claudia Ugbana
It’s been three years since, and the movement shows no signs of slowing.
ILLUSTRATED BY
Derek Prince Wilson
T
arana Burke’s expectations of her activist group and slogan, #MeToo, were exceeded beyond a belief she could ever imagine in 2017. Hollywood actor Alyssa Milano, took to Twitter declaring #MeToo, in a tweet
that urged women to unite by using the slogan on their social media platforms. The widely recognized hashtag—previously created in 2006—gravitated through social media turning Burke’s more private activist group into one of the biggest movements to ever impact our world today. The #MeToo movement would overtake social media and every other media outlet as a result of one stor y, published in The New York Times by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, on the
