34. UNBOUND with Tarana BurkePart 1

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 4:01 a.m.

b'Please join us in the first part of our joyful, energizing, and hopeful conversation with activist, advocate, and our personal hero,Tarana Burke. We talk about:\\n1. How the spoken and unspoken rules for girls led Tarana to constantly perform the role of \\u201cgood girl\\u201d so that \\u201cher secret\\u201d would never be revealed.\\xa0\\xa0\\n2. The impossible double bind so many survivors live through: that the protection of our community is what saves us, but the need to protect our community is what silences us.\\n3. Why Maya Angelou\\u2019s work changed everything for Tarana\\u2014and how, in her early twenties, she began documenting everything joyful in her life.\\xa0\\n4. How dancing with Rob was the one place Tarana could safely explore her sexuality with no demands on her body\\u2014and how meaningful that was for her.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\nCW:\\xa0We reference sexual abuse and trauma.\\nAbout Tarana:\\xa0\\nFor more than 25 years, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created and led various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the \\u2018me too.\\u2019 movement, which to date has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world.\\n\\nBook:\\xa0Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement\\nInstagram:\\xa0@taranajaneen\\nTwitter:\\xa0@TaranaBurke\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'