What happens when a woman’s words are believed? And what doesn’t happen? Two years have passed since the viral hashtag #MeToo carried the intersectional movement to end sexual violence to a global ...

Leigh Gilmore
Leigh Gilmore, distinguished visiting professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College, is the author, most recently, of Tainted Witness (Columbia University Press, 2017) and, with Elizabeth Marshall, Witnessing Girlhood (Fordham University Press, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Signs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Feminist Studies, among other places. She writes regularly for WBUR’s Cognoscenti.