For months, women across the country, and right here in Milwaukee, have been making a concerted effort to share their stories of workplace sexual harassment.
The movement is called #MeToo.
With so many stories being shared, many people are now asking: so what happens now? Where do we go from here?
That was the topic of a community forum, titled Across the Divide: From #MeToo to What Now?, hosted Tuesday night by WUWM and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at Good City Brewing in Milwaukee.
Moderators Mitch Teich, of WUWM's Lake Effect, and Journal Sentinel's Mary Spicuzza were joined by panelists:
- Katie Mullen, co-owner ofBlackPaint Studiosand founder of From Here to Her Artist Collective.
What has the media got wrong?
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"Using the word accuser." -Lina Juarbe Botilla
"If we could not call it a "witch hunt" that'd be great." -Katie Mullen
#AcrossDivide #MeToo
- Rhonda Ware, founder of UR Aware, LLC and national trainer for Mentor's in Violence Prevention.
"We must move pass the hashtag to real action." -@rhondamware #AcrossDivide #MeToo
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- Lina Juarbe, director of community engagement for A Call to Men and the founding director of The Healing Center.
"Just have the conversation even if you don't have the answers. We can't act like it's not happening. It's an epidemic." - Lina Juarbe Botella #AcrossDivide #MeToo
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- Nola Hitchcock Cross, managing partner of Cross Law Firm.
What should the conversation sound like when a parent/mentor is talking to a young person about what they see going wrong?
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"If you see something wrong, say something. Just adopt that for sexual harassment." - Nola J. Hitchcock Cross #AcrossDivide #MeToo
Watch the full conversation below.
