ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the movement’s origins, gives an overview of contemporary campus activism against sexual assault, and shows its ongoing effects. It outlines the history of the movement from 1970—2010. The chapter describes how a newly invigorated movement grew from 2011 onwards and shows how political opportunities under the Obama administration facilitated this movement. It explores how the election of President Trump both foreclosed political opportunities and opened cultural ones. The high-profile sexual assault and harassment accusations against Trump, which fueled countless other accusations, has kept the issue in the spotlight and expanded the movement beyond college campuses to the media, entertainment, and workplace. The upsurge of activism on campus has occurred alongside growing mobilization around other issues, beginning with Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the pipeline protests at Standing Rock and progressing to protests against President Trump and broad outrage over sexual assault and harassment in the #MeToo movement.
