Ryan J Gallagher

Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo

The social stigma looming over disclosures of sexual violence discourages many women from publicly sharing their stories, limiting their ability to seek support and obscuring the epidemic of sexual violence against women. By inviting women to share their ordinarily silenced stories, the hashtag #MeToo surfaced a netwo…