They gave her the courage to embrace her power.
She needed to stop running and confront what had happened to her, for Heaven and Diamond and the countless other young Black women for whom she cared. In her debut memoir she shares her extensive work supporting and empowering Black and brown girls, and the devastating realization that to truly help these girls she needed to help that scared, ashamed child still in her soul. Tarana fought to reunite her fractured self, through organizing, pursuing justice, and finding community. She tucked one away, hidden behind a wall of pain and anger, which seemed to work.until it didn’t. One side was the bright, intellectually curious third generation Bronxite steeped in Black literature and power, and the other was the bad, shame ridden girl who thought of herself as a vile rule breaker, not as a victim. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. Tarana didn’t always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible.
Tarana’s words are a testimony to liberation and love.” -Brené Brownįrom the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words- me too- and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. “Sometimes a single story can change the world.
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