Tarana Burke's memoir, Unbound, begins with her reaction to the Me Too Movement going viral after a high-profile man in the entertainment industry was accused of serial sexual violence and harassment. At first, it was overwhelming to see something she had created and fostered being taken over by mostly white women, and she felt like she was in a daze for days. The movement was founded in 2006 to support young women of color who experienced sexual assault, and was and is centered around uplifting the survivors in their paths to healing and forming and providing community to those survivors. "Empowerment through empathy" is the driving force behind all of Burke's activism, and leading the Me Too Movement as it grew (and grew), she knew that the narrative needed to encompass not only the high-profile cases, but those that take place in more ordinary spaces as well.
