{"id":149,"date":"2018-04-30T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:26:13","slug":"building-on-metoos-momentum-to-embrace-our-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Building on #MeToo\u2019s Momentum to Embrace Our Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, along with several great colleagues, were quoted in this <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/30\/embrace-your-voice\/\">piece<\/a> by\u00a0<a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque\" href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/author\/catalinasofiadansbergerduque\/\" rel=\"author\">Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque<\/a> about the #MeToo movement in Ms. Magazine:<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;In India, #MeToo is hardly the first digital turning point in the fight to end rape and sexual assault.\u00a0\u201cAn attempt has been made in India to protect women,\u201d says Amy Bhatt, associate professor of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies, \u201cbut legislation has mostly been used to limit women, rather than to protect them. Young women activists are pushing against that and using these type of hybrid online and in personal awareness-raising campaigns to create change and demand accountability.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, along with several great colleagues, were quoted in this piece by\u00a0Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque about the #MeToo movement in Ms. Magazine: &#8220;In India, #MeToo is hardly the first digital turning point in the fight to end rape and sexual &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amybhatt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}