One Year of #MeToo: Punishing Individual Abusers Is Not the Same as Justice

It began with the mesmerizing spectacle of dominoes falling: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, and so on, name after famous face, all disgraced by the end of November, 2017. An autumn later, #MeToo is undergoing a shift. Perhaps this is the moment that #MeToo stops being a movement aimed primarily at punishing individuals and starts to do its work on the institutions that have enabled them. read more »

Anita Hill's ELLE Women in Hollywood Speech: We Must Create Places for Survivors to Report Abuse

Just weeks before ELLE's 25th Women in Hollywood celebration, Anita Hill was back in the headlines. As Dr. Christine Blasey Ford appeared at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to testify about allegations that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, many looked to Hill's own Senate Judiciary Committee testimony just 27 years prior. At the time, Hill had accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, and just like Kavanaugh, he was still confirmed. It can seem, on the surface, like not much has changed in those years, but if you look at Hill's body of work, it's clear that's not the case. read more »