Month: December 2017

As a child, “I Am Woman” was my anthem. My mother loved Helen Reddy and as soon as I was old enough to be allowed to work the turntable myself I played her album constantly.

Over the 42 years I’ve been hearing and singing this song, never have I felt it to be more celebratory than defiant until today. Tarana Burke* is on the cover of Time along with other women who have been speaking up for years about sexual violence. Across industries, classes, races, and ages, sexual violence is a scourge on our lives.

This year, we heard them. This year, we joined them. This year we said, “Yes, you’re next.”

We’re not novices any longer.

*Tarana Burke’s work is on the cover of Time, as she herself should have been.