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 that can be personally helpful for survivors of sexual violence.
For advocates, in addition to the empathy of survivors, if offers research studies about sexual violence, statistical information, and a data base of state and local laws. Thare 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 also a blog in the advocates section . In the Blog, 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.
They 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.”
They wish for a world in which a survivor’s story “is given fair consideration [so they can be] made whole by a process that supports both accountability and healing]. Instead, they say, there is a zero-sum game because people’s interest is in winning rather than ending a culture of sexual violence.
They wish 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.”
They condemn those whose defense of Joe Biden is that he is a “good guy” or our political hope. They say 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.
They explain there are no perfect victims. Women can be victims even if they have an imperfect history.
We should listen to Tarana Burke and her interlocutor Benise Beek