Me Too has lost much of the radical spirit with which it commenced for two key reasons. Firstly, as I argued at the Cambridge Union debate on the topic last week, the movement is now “in the hands of the media, and therefore in the hands of the male establishment who owns the media”. Secondly…
The MeToo movement: opportunities and challenges
This post was originally published in The RSA journal (Issue 1, 2018) with the title “A critical moment for Feminism”. It argues that to truly challenge the status quo, the MeToo movement should encourage a historical and critical lens to hot button feminist issues such as inclusivity, globalisation and gender identity. Image via the RSA’s Medium pages. If…