Kimberle Crenshaw, “Black Women Still In Defense of Ourselves,” The Nation, October 24, 2011.
African American Women Respons to Hill/Thomas Hearings, 1992
African American Women In Defense of Ourselves, New York Times, 1992, a response to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings by African American women.
Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Summit, Washington D.C., April 24, 2018
National Domestic Workers Alliance & National Farmworker Women’s Alliance, Unstoppable Town Hall: Survivors Share Their Stories, April 24, 2018, Washington D.C.
Catharine A. MacKinnon, #MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not, February 4, 2018
Alianza Nacional De Campesinas
Alianza Nacional De Campesinas (National Alliance of Farmworker Women) has a mission to unify the struggle to promote farm worker women’s leadership in a national movement to create a broader visibility and advocate for changes that ensure their human rights.
Their Bandana Project is a public awareness campaign aimed at addressing the issue of workplace sexual violence against migrant farmworker women in the United States. White bandanas are decorated and displayed as a symbol of the sexual exploitation of farmworker women because farmworker women have said that they use their clothes, including bandanas, to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
Campesinas Rising is led by Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, the first national farmworker women organization that fights for campesinas’ human rights. Campesinas Rising will raise awareness about and work towards eliminating violence faced by campesina women and girls, in the United States and globally.
Sources:
- A Radio Model: A Community Strategy to Address the Problems and needs of the Mexican American Women Farmworkers, By Maria Elena Trevino
- Injustice on Our Plates, Southern Poverty Law Center
- Cultivating Fear, Human Rights Watch
- Rape in the Fields, Frontline
- Working in Fear: Sexual Violence Against Farmworker Women literature review, Oxfam America
20 States by 2020 Campaign
On the one-year anniversary of #MeToo going viral, nearly 300 organizations came together to call for strengthened protections against sexual harassment and violence at work, in schools, homes, and communities—demanding concrete advances in “20 states by 2020.” Led by Girls for Gender Equity, the campaign is progressing in the state. The National Women’s Law Center published a report on this in July of 2019: Progress in Advancing Me Too Workplace Reforms in #20StatesBy2020.
National Women’s Law Center: Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund
National Women’s Law Center Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund helps pay legal feeds and costs in cases involving sexual harassment and related retaliation at work. Tey also connect people to help pay for media and the storytelling process.
Time’s Up
New Rules Summit
Hosted by the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists at the forefront of the gender and equality conversation, the New Rules Summit , held June 12-13 in Brooklyn, New York, “called on diverse leaders from across business, politics and culture to create a boldly inclusive vision of the workplace— and transform it into reality.”
