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Understanding the Personal Impact of Sexual Violence and Assault

In October 2017 the #MeToo movement emerged in full force across social media throughout the United States. Survivors of sexual violence and harassment spoke publicly (in most cases, for the first time) about their lived experiences of sexual assault they endured in multiple contexts. For some survivors it was the home they grew up in; for others it was the workplace and/or presumed business meetings; as the stories grew in number, a larger American mainstream realized that sexual predators seemed to utilize virtually any and every location one might find. What gained nationwide media attention were scores of high-profile, disproportionately white, female celebrities coming forward with allegations of sexual violence and predatory behavior against Harvey Weinstein. Less than a week later, an influential tweet by actress Alyssa Milano seemingly opened a floodgate of public revelations on Twitter and Facebook concerning sexual violence and harassment from women and men across the nation. Numerous politicians, academics, movie stars, and journalists later resigned or were removed from their positions of power after corroborated reports of years of abuse. In truth, this movement emphasizing the need to collectively raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual violence arose nearly a decade prior in 2007, through the efforts and inspiration of Tarana Burke (Garcia 2017). A Black woman originally from the Bronx, Burke spent years working with sexual assault survivors and marginalized communities and advocating for racial and gender equity, most recently based in New York City as the senior director for Girls for Gender Equity. Following in the footsteps of gender violence activists like Rosa Parks, Burke continued the long history of Black women and women of color who raised awareness of sexual violence both within and outside the marginalized communities they came from (Freedman 2013; McGuire 2009). Prior scholarship in the study of social movements suggests that in the fall of 2017 we witnessed a manifestation of cognitive liberation, the process by which members of an aggrieved group fashion the specific combination of shared understandings that are thought to undergird emergent collective action (McAdam 1999, 2013). In this instance, sexual violence survivors