Black survivors, feeling overlooked in the MeToo movement, marked this year’s anniversary with activism, resilience and frustration.
“It’s been really hard to feel safe lately,” Naadira said. “There is a sort of trickle-down that can happen from a very simple interaction that I have to think about all the time.”
In response to heightened threats today, Naadira has found new sources of support and community, turning to therapy, meditation and their partner, who is Black, queer and trans. “We talk a lot about what it looks like for us to navigate that safely and what it feels like to have each other’s backs through that,” Naadira said. “So there’s little ways that I’ve sort of set up my life so that I can just continue to function despite and in spite of everything.”
It’s a foundation of support Naadira credits to their upbringing in activism. “It taught me from a very early age what community meant, what it meant to be a community with people, and what it meant to show up and give your part to the community,” they said.Community is also, in the end, what brought Dixon back to her music career.
She had left the industry as a rising executive in the early aughts, she said, feeling “exiled” by her experiences with Simmons and Reid. But in 2018, as #MeToo ramped up, Dixon returned. She still had her doubts about support in the Black community, but she found — to her “really big surprise” — “a tiny little island of really amazing people who want to see me do my thing again.”“I’m stronger today than I was five years ago. I’m freer today than I was five years ago.
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