The Harris/Walz campaign slogan, “We are not going back,” is one that keeps coming up. There is no denying that a lot of things are going to grow worse.
However, it’s a term that at least gives me some comfort. I see myself before Trump, still recovering from trauma and silently passing away in my own loneliness and humiliation.
I’ve changed since then. I refuse to return to silence. “More than any law that has been passed or policy that has been changed in the past five years,
This movement has created visibility and community for those of us who thought we might go to our grave bearing a shame that was never ours to carry in the first place,”
Wrote Tarana Burke, the movement’s founder, in 2022 to commemorate the anniversary of the #MeToo movement.
