UNITED STATES
The Washington Post
December 6, 2017
By Lindsey Bever
Time magazine has named “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 Person of the Year — the women (and some men) who came forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault, forcing a nationwide reckoning.
The magazine calls them “the voices that launched a movement.”
Among them: Actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan, whose stunning accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein helped lead to his downfall; activist Tarana Burke, the creator of the #MeToo movement; and Alyssa Milano, the actress who amplified it.
“The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,” Time’s editor in chief, Edward Felsenthal, said in a statement to “Today.”
These “silence breakers” have forced a national reckoning on sexual harassment.
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