{"id":14327,"date":"2022-04-28T01:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatwillittake.com\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:26:45","slug":"things-have-changed-but-not-nearly-enough-interview-with-anita-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatwillittake.com\/interviews\/things-have-changed-but-not-nearly-enough-interview-with-anita-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Things Have Changed, But Not Nearly Enough\u2019: Interview with Anita Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Marianne Schnall<\/a><\/h5>\n

By courageously sharing her landmark testimony during the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, Anita Hill became a trailblazer and leading figure for women\u2019s rights in the fight against sexual harassment and gender-based violence. Three decades later, in the wake of the #MeToo reckoning and with mounting evidence that these issues remain pervasive and epidemic, Hill, who has continued to be a tireless advocate for these issues since the hearings, has written a new book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence<\/em><\/a>. In it, she shares new insights into her own journey and documents the devastating collective impact of gender-based violence, as well as the intersectional issues of race, class and power, which remain as urgent to address as when she first testified.<\/p>\n

In Believing<\/em>, Hill, currently a University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at Brandeis University, draws on her own story, as well as her experience as a teacher, legal scholar and advocate, as she chronicles the experiences of the thousands of survivors who have told her their stories and the many detrimental impacts it has had on every aspect of their lives (which ultimately spread to the lives of others). Hill offers her skilled analysis of the deeper issues that too often remain below the surface that have been preventing true progress from being made. She issues a powerful call to action for the cultural and systemic change that is needed in our laws, from our leaders\u2014and from all of us\u2014to address gender-based violence concretely, comprehensively and immediately.<\/p>\n

This was my second time interviewing Hill<\/a>, who always has so much wisdom and inspiration to offer and is a much-needed role model for women and girls to step into leadership and courageously use their voices, as she did during the hearings. With all the urgent issues we face, that is the kind of bravery that is most needed today\u2014to boldly use our voices to stand against injustice and to be advocates and leaders for the causes we believe in, to co-create a more equal and just world.<\/p>\n

In this interview, we cover a lot of ground, from the broader implications of gender-based violence, to how these issues are exacerbated for women of color, to how we raise our men and boys, to how she keeps herself positive and energized to keep doing this work and much more. Ultimately, there is a lot to learn from Hill about the change that is needed to make our society and systems safe and equitable, and how we can all be a part of making that change.<\/p>\n

Watch the video below for an excerpt of the interview. To hear the full conversation, listen to the Shiftmakers podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n