# MeToo Movement (2017–present) The MeToo Movement is the contemporary American-and-international political-cultural-and-organizational mass-mobilization substantially-organized around sexual-harassment-and-sexual-assault accountability infrastructure, substantially-launched as mass-political-cultural-mobilization on October 15, 2017 through actress Alyssa Milano's substantial Twitter-call-and-response viral-mobilization deployment of the "Me Too" framing, building substantially on Tarana Burke's substantial pre-2017 (2006+) "Me Too" sexual-assault-survivor-community-support organizing-work. The mass-mobilization substantially-followed the October 5, 2017 *New York Times* publication of substantial documentary-record on Harvey Weinstein's sustained sexual-harassment-and-sexual-assault conduct across approximately three decades of Hollywood-industry-political-economic-power deployment; the subsequent mass-mobilization substantially-extended across multiple substantively-distinct industry-and-political-cultural environments — entertainment, journalism-and-media, politics, academia, hospitality, manufacturing-and-construction, technology, and adjacent industry-and-political-cultural environments. The movement matters for the KB substantially across multiple analytical-political-registers: 1. **Principal contemporary American feminist-political-cultural mass-mobilization documentary anchor.** The MeToo Movement is the principal contemporary American feminist-political-cultural mass-mobilization. Tracking the movement is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-analytical literature. 2. **Substantial-political-cultural-environment-impact documentary case.** The movement substantially-affected American political-cultural-environment across multiple substantively-distinct industry-and-political-cultural environments. Tracking the movement is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. 3. **Backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation documentary case.** The movement produced substantial backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation across multiple substantively-distinct political-coalition contexts. Tracking the backlash is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American [[Antifeminism]] political-rhetorical-environment analytical-literature. ## Pre-2017 Foundation **Tarana Burke's "Me Too" organizing-work (2006-2017).** Tarana Burke — sexual-assault-survivor and Black-feminist-community-organizer — initiated "Me Too" as substantial sexual-assault-survivor-community-support organizing-work in 2006. The pre-2017 organizing-work substantially-emphasized substantial-Black-and-Brown-survivor community-support infrastructure; the organizing-work substantially-distinct from subsequent mass-mobilization in substantial-emphasis on substantial-community-and-survivor-support-infrastructure rather than substantial-public-political-mobilization. Burke's substantial post-2017 leadership integration into broader mass-mobilization substantially-recovered the substantial Black-feminist-organizing foundation of the movement. ## 2017 Mass-Mobilization ***New York Times* / *New Yorker* Weinstein coverage (October 5-10, 2017).** Substantial *New York Times* (Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, October 5, 2017) and *New Yorker* (Ronan Farrow, October 10, 2017) publication of substantial documentary-record on Harvey Weinstein's sustained sexual-harassment-and-sexual-assault conduct across approximately three decades of Hollywood-industry-political-economic-power deployment. The publication substantially-catalyzed subsequent mass-mobilization. **Alyssa Milano Twitter viral-mobilization (October 15, 2017).** Actress Alyssa Milano substantially-launched the "Me Too" mass-mobilization on Twitter through call-and-response viral-deployment: "If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet." The mass-mobilization substantially-grew across multiple substantively-distinct industry-and-political-cultural environments. The Twitter mass-mobilization substantially-produced multi-million-response viral-mobilization within 24-48 hours of initial deployment. **Tarana Burke leadership-integration.** Following Milano's viral-mobilization, Burke's pre-2017 organizing-work was substantially-publicly-recognized; Burke substantially-integrated into the broader mass-mobilization leadership. The substantial leadership-integration substantially-recovered the Black-feminist-organizing foundation of the movement. ## 2018-Present Mass-Mobilization Development **Industry-and-political-cultural mass-mobilization expansion (2017-2019).** Substantial 2017-2019 mass-mobilization expansion across multiple substantively-distinct industry-and-political-cultural environments. Notable specific cases: [[Bill O'Reilly]] ([[Fox News]]), Matt Lauer (NBC News), Charlie Rose (CBS News), Garrison Keillor, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Mario Batali, Mark Halperin, [[Roger Ailes]] (substantially-documented prior to MeToo mass-mobilization but substantially-integrated into broader political-cultural-mobilization), and substantial portion of additional industry-and-political-cultural figures. The mass-mobilization substantially-extended across approximately 200+ substantial public-figure cases through 2019. **[[Brett Kavanaugh]] confirmation hearings (September 2018).** Substantial September 2018 [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings substantially-incorporated MeToo Movement political-cultural-mass-mobilization environment. Christine Blasey Ford's substantial testimony of substantial alleged sexual-assault conduct against Kavanaugh substantially-mobilized broader political-cultural-mobilization environment; Kavanaugh's substantial subsequent confirmation substantially-mobilized broader feminist-political-coalition-organizational infrastructure-development. **Time's Up Now founding (January 2018).** Substantial January 2018 founding of Time's Up Now substantially-organizing legal-defense-fund infrastructure for sexual-harassment-and-sexual-assault complainants. The organization substantially-organized substantial industry-and-political-cultural-mobilization infrastructure-development across the post-2018 period. **Substantial state-and-federal legislative-and-judicial-infrastructure development.** Substantial state-and-federal legislative-and-judicial infrastructure-development across the post-2017 period — workplace-harassment-policy infrastructure, NDA-restriction infrastructure, statute-of-limitations-reform infrastructure, and adjacent legislative-and-judicial-infrastructure development. **Backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation (2018-2024).** Substantial backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation across multiple substantively-distinct political-coalition contexts. Notable backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation: substantial men's-rights-political-coalition contestation; substantial conservative-media political-rhetorical-contestation; substantial post-2020 broader anti-feminist political-cultural-environment political-rhetorical-contestation. **Post-2020 substantial-mass-mobilization-environment decline.** Substantial post-2020 mass-mobilization-environment decline relative to peak 2017-2019 mass-mobilization-environment. The substantial-mass-mobilization-environment decline substantially-followed substantial backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation infrastructure development; the decline substantially-coincided with substantially-broader contemporary political-cultural-environment shifts. ## Why It Matters for the KB **Principal contemporary American feminist-political-cultural mass-mobilization documentary anchor.** The MeToo Movement is the principal contemporary American feminist-political-cultural mass-mobilization. Tracking the movement is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American feminist-political-cultural-analytical literature. **Substantial-political-cultural-environment-impact documentary case.** The movement substantially-affected American political-cultural-environment across multiple substantively-distinct industry-and-political-cultural environments. Tracking the movement is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American political-cultural-environment analytical-literature. **Backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation documentary case.** The movement produced substantial backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation across multiple substantively-distinct political-coalition contexts. Tracking the backlash is essential to engaging with broader contemporary American [[Antifeminism]] political-rhetorical-environment analytical-literature. The contemporary post-2020 American [[Antifeminism]] political-rhetorical-environment substantially-operates against the MeToo Movement political-cultural-legacy. **Tarana Burke Black-feminist-organizing foundation documentary case.** The substantial Tarana Burke pre-2017 "Me Too" organizing-work foundation is substantially-essential to substantively-analytically-engaging with the broader MeToo Movement political-cultural-history. Tracking the foundation is useful for engaging with broader Black-feminist-organizing analytical-literature. ## See Also - Tarana Burke *(future Person entry)* — the principal pre-2017 Black-feminist-organizing-foundation figure - [[Misogyny]] — the principal contemporary analytical-conceptual-framework - [[Patriarchy]] — the broader structural-system Concept - [[Reproductive Rights Movement]] — adjacent contemporary feminist political-cultural-mass-mobilization - [[Civil Rights Movement]] — adjacent broader political-cultural-mass-mobilization - [[Antifeminism]] — the principal contemporary backlash-and-political-rhetorical-contestation framework - [[Resistance Hub]] — adjacent resistance-infrastructure analytical-resource