A “revolution”, a “jolt” an “emancipation” … however one wants to describe this contemporary feminist period, the fact remains that five years after it began #MeToo is at a crossroads; weakened for internal reasons and opposed by those whom it challenges. In this article, the first in a series, Lénaïg Bredoux and Joseph Confavreux assess the current status of the #MeToo movement.
“It“It wouldn't be easy to say when and how the revolution started, after the first #MeToo hashtag, or when hundreds of sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier church in Lyon in 1975, or when the black feminist Sojourner Truth got up at the Convention of white women at Akron [in Ohio] in 1851 and powerfully declared 'Ain't I a woman?', supporting freedom and the right to vote for racialised women for the first time in history.
