Me too. The movement website says: You are not alone. Support survivors and end sexual violence. The website has two parts.
For survivors, it has a data base of local and national organizations that provide services and safe spaces for survivors of sexual violence.
For advocates, it offers the empathy of survivors, research studies about sexual violence, statistical information, and a data base of state and local laws.
In the advocates section, there are survivor stories – Terry, Daniela, Emily. There is a press section where there are stories about Covid-19 and Movement Founder Tarana Burke and about their 2019 Impact Report.
There is a blog in the advocates section Benise Beek writes — “Tarana Burke on Tara Reade’s Allegations Against Former Vice President Joe Biden. Beek describes the Blog post is a compilation of Tarana Burke’s tweets on the topic.
She expressed sadness about the false choice survivors have, the burden they must bear, the problem of pitting survivors against one another, a problem that arises because sexual violence is seen “as a catastrophic outlier rather than an embedded toxic element of our culture.”
She wishes for a world in which a survivor’s story “is given fair consideration and [so they can be] made whole by a process that supports both accountability and healing]. Instead, she says, there is a zero-sum game because people’s interest is in winning rather than ending a culture of sexual violence.
She wishes for a trusted system where Tara Reade could have come forward. Instead, there is no system, so Reade could only be heard through journalists. Survivors, says the blog, deserve more than being used as “political footballs.”
She condemns those whose defense of Joe Biden is that he is a “good guy” or our political hope. She says Joe Biden would be more credible if he demonstrated he has learned enough about the boundaries involving women to understand why some find Reade’s claims plausible.
She explains there are no perfect victims, that is, women can be victims even if they have an imperfect history.
Listen to Tarana Burke and her interlocutor Benise Beek