#ThisEndsHere: Ending Sexual Harassment and Assault at Penn State Get access Arrow
Abstract
We want to end sexual harassment and assault at Penn State. Following Tarana Burke’s intersectional Me Too movement to build empowerment for survivors through empathy, how can we create solidarity and collective action via empathy across our various communities of students and employees and in the wider communities of State College and Centre County, PA (Adetiba, 2017; Garber, 2018; “Meet Tarana Burke,” 2017; Rodino-Colocino, 2018)? How can we move women, men, and nonbinary students, faculty, and staff at Penn State and members of our town and county, across socioeconomic divides, ethnic backgrounds, national origins, racial identities, and sexual orientations to stand together to end sexual harassment and assault?
Our personal experiences as survivors, advocates, and healers at Penn State and at other institutions of higher learning make us painfully aware of the devastation that sexual harassment and assault causes and that research documents.
Abstract
We want to end sexual harassment and assault at Penn State. Following Tarana Burke’s intersectional Me Too movement to build empowerment for survivors through empathy, how can we create solidarity and collective action via empathy across our various communities of students and employees and in the wider communities of State College and Centre County, PA (Adetiba, 2017; Garber, 2018; “Meet Tarana Burke,” 2017; Rodino-Colocino, 2018)? How can we move women, men, and nonbinary students, faculty, and staff at Penn State and members of our town and county, across socioeconomic divides, ethnic backgrounds, national origins, racial identities, and sexual orientations to stand together to end sexual harassment and assault?
Our personal experiences as survivors, advocates, and healers at Penn State and at other institutions of higher learning make us painfully aware of the devastation that sexual harassment and assault causes and that research documents.
