In Tarana Burke’s Debut Memoir, ‘Unbound,’ The Activist Behind The Phrase “Me Too” Is Telling Her Own Story For The First Time

Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for Essence By Rayna Reid ·Updated October 18, 2021

With Tarana Burke’s debut memoir, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, the activist is telling her own story for the first time.

Burke first uttered “Me Too” in 2007 “to raise awareness of sexual assault and connect victims to resources.” There were concerns that Burke would be uncredited for this advocacy: in 2017,

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