Program At CSUSB To Discuss #MeToo Movement

REDLANDS-LOMA LINDA, CA - From Inside CSUSB: Cal State San Bernardino and its College of Social and Behavioral Sciences will host a program examining the #MeToo movement.

The Rise of Women, #MeToo, and Why it Matters,” will take place Monday, Dec. 3, in the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union Theater. The event opens with refreshments at 5 p.m., with the program scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

Featured speakers are:

· Tiffany Jones, professor of history and chair of the CSUSB Department of History;
· Kathy Nadeau, professor of anthropology; and
· Meredith Conroy, associate professor of political science.

They will discuss how they and their colleagues, and the broader academic community, can inform this cultural movement.

Though it gained widespread notice in late 2017 as a social media hashtag to spread awareness of sexual assault and harassment, the genesis of #MeToo was in 2006, when activist Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement “because she, as someone who experienced sexual assault, wanted to do something to help women and girls — particularly women and girls of color — who had also survived sexual violence,” according to a Washington Post article.

In October 2017, in the wake of allegations of years of sexual misconduct by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, actress Alyssa Milano posted on her Twitter account, “Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”

About Cal State San Bernardino

California State University, San Bernardino is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in Inland Southern California. Opened in 1965 and set at the foothills of the beautiful San Bernardino Mountains, the university serves more than 20,000 students each year and graduates about 4,000 students annually. The university offers more than 70 traditional baccalaureate and master’s degree programs, education credential and certificate programs, and a doctorate program in educational leadership. Every one of its academic programs that is eligible has earned national accreditation. CSUSB reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has the most diverse student population of any university in the Inland Empire. More than 80 percent of those who graduate are the first in their families to do so.

For more information on Cal State San Bernardino, contact the university’s Office of Strategic Communication at (909) 537-5007 and visit inside.csusb.edu.

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