After insurrections, plagues, protests, & wars, it's hard to remember that #MeToo was *the* cultural moment. Hailed as nothing short of the second civil-rights movement, those rights were mostly to arrest and imprison others, as has often been the case with "feminist" reform.

Through a detailed comparison of Alyssa Milano's #MeToo and Tarana Burke's "me too movement," I show how the familiar tough-on-crime, sex-negative, and carceral messages of the celeb #MeToo eclipsed the radical redistributive and abolitionist messages of the grassroots one.

I trace the bevy of criminal laws insprired by #MeToo, including new crimes, statute of limitations reforms, and reduced defendant protections. Far from merely closing "loopholes," the broad laws raise due process issues & sweep in vulnerable people, including women & sex workers

@ayagruber Congratulations, Aya!!! 🎉🎉🎉

@ProfBuchhandler Thanks!

@ayagruber Congrats!

@ayagruber I can’t wait to read this! Congrats and excited for the upcoming book

@ayagruber Love this paper!

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