ABSTRACT

At a global level, #MeToo has almost become synonymous with women speaking out against sexual harassment, sexual assault and to a certain extent, gender injustice. #MeToo is credited, by some, as forging a new kind of global connection between women. The chapter troubles this understanding by asking which women and girls are seen, heard and validated when we say #MeToo, and whether it is appropriate to reference #MeToo as a single movement? Larasi asks whether it is possible to deliver on a vision of ending gender injustice and its by-products, including sexual violence, without addressing racial injustice and other forms of oppression since gender is, itself, ever always, raced.