The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space.

These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.