Tanara Burke created the term "Me too" in 2006 through her grassroots campaign to bring awareness about sexual abuse and misconduct experienced by underprivileged women and girls of color. In 2017, actress Alyssa Milano helped relaunch the "Me too" movement on social media by encouraging victims of sexual assault to share their stories using the hashtag #MeToo on Twitter. Within 24 hours of Milano's tweet, the #MeToo phrase was used over 200,000 times on Twitter and in over 12 million Facebook posts. The "Me too" movement aims to give a voice to victims of sexual harassment and assault.

2. #ME TOO MOVEMENT
Tanara Burke is a social activist and community organizer
from New York City. Burke created the term “Me too”
through her grassroots movement in 2006.” Through her
grassroots campaign Burke was able to bring aid and
awareness about sexual abuse/misconduct amongst
underprivilege women and girls of color. The term “Me
too” spread virally in 2017 by actress Alyssa Milano.

3. Sexual Harassment
• noun
• harassment (typically
of a woman) in a
workplace, or other
professional or social
situation, involving
the making of
unwanted sexual
advances or obscene
remarks.

4. Sexual Assault
• Noun
• a statutory offense that provides
that it is a crime to knowingly
cause another person to engage
in an unwanted sexual act by
force or threat

5. #ME TOO
• In 2017 Actress Alyssa Milano
helped relaunched the “Me too”
movement virally, by
encouraging victims of sexual
assault and abuse to come
forward by replying “Me too” to
her tweet via social network site
twitter.

6. • The phrase #Me too which was
tweeted by actress Alyssa Milano on
October 15, 2017 was used over
200,000 times by the end of that day
on Twitter. On other social networking
sites such as Facebook the phrase was
used by more than 4.7 million account
users in 12 million posts during it’s first
24 hours.

8. Resources for Sexual Assault Victims
• Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-866-723-3014
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR): pcar.org
• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): rainn.org
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center: www.nsvrc.org
• National Center for Victims of Crime: nsvrc.org
• Information on male sexual abuse: malesurvivor.org
• LGBTQ Community resources: http://www.nclrights.org/sexual-
assault-in-the-lgbt-community/