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Downside - mainly a women's movement - but also has introduced conversations about sexual assault across gender that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Definitely a lot of upsides and has left positive impacts.

Downsides are not necessarily "harm" but the movement also triggered a reactionary movement from certain other groups, e.g. "Men's Rights Activists"

MeToo did make it a global conversation - not a perfect translation but it DID make it to countries like ours. Started conversations everywhere, because of the reach of social media. Womens' groups in the past were more localised/geographically limited. Internet helped to reach out to larger groups of people.

English speaking, urban - these are privileges that many don't have access to. Locks a lot of people out of the conversation. How inclusive was it in Malaysia? Getting better, but a long way to go. These things have been known for a long time but a lot of people still don't know a lot of this because of where they're from.

Has MeToo changed how many *men* think about gender equality? The values have translated somewhat into mens circles

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MeToo achieved a point where people don't victim blame as much - people do feel strongly about about acknowledging that nonconsensual image sharing is terrible. Better understanding of right and wrong.

Maybe this thing has happened, but it feels like it's left in the past. Something like this could happen again? There could be other groups that this could be happening to who don't know how to get help.

In America, a lot of women were sharing their #MeToo stories, there were a bunch of men who completely misrepresented the movement - "men can't do anything anymore".

Last year, celeb preacher - victims shared experiences - but a lot of people (mostly men) said that the victims were "hopping on the bandwagon" or that it was a "trend"

MeToo US vs Malaysia - maruah, save face culture needs more tools. Many in Malaysia also aren't privileged enough to access the tools/knowledge.

People are coming forward more, feeling comfortable. But a lot of responses where people say "it's just a trend". Need more awareness.

Perception amongst some, particularly in mens groups, that MeToo is used as a "weapon" against men.

More information was circulated post MeToo - what exactly is sexual assault, what to do, how to get help. Awareness raised that could help people in real life. More support. Different ways of approaching situations.

Behaviour: narratives such as MeToo, save trans lives etc. have become more normalised because of the internet, and have helped translate offline.

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#MeToo elitist: focus was on a type of woman and their type of struggle

Difficult to take global movement and localise it - what's the mission statement? what's the cause and struggle? Those may not fully translate to our demographic. Malaysia's #MeToo may have different problems and narratives that may not fit neatly into the imported tools given to us by #MeToo

Diverse narratives get lost — Telegram group, primarily made up of Indian men, but where are the other groups? Whose narratives HAVEN'T surfaced?

None of us connected Telegram to MeToo - although the issues CAN HAVE some connection to MeToo, it feels distinct

Types of sexual assault in MeToo - physical, inappropriate touching etc. - didn't connect to Telegram because it's a different kind of assault and crime (sharing of nonconsensual images).

MeToo wasn't intended to be exclusively for a specific demo, but since it was started by a specific woman from a specific group, it left out other narratives - male victims?
Locally - there were a few men who stepped forward, but there may be many more.

Barrier: idea that men cannot be sexually assaulted - meant to be dominant, shows a weakness, part of the reason why men don't come out.

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Media/publicity helped it get larger public attention

Tech helped massively - everything only came out because of social media. Hard to separate this instance of activism from social media.

The hashtags helped everyone "do their part" because even the bare minimum helped amplify the message.

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#StopPredatorgram

Some people leaked screenshots from the group, and so many people were affected - it blew up.

Some people didn't report because "I'm just one person"

Someone posted on Twitter, picked up by Juice MY - went viral

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Did it take off? US moreso than Malaysia

#MeToo feels so far removed from us at times because it came from the US and took some time to get here.

Don't remember seeing a lot of locals - but people RT-ed the hashtags etc. on social media

Twitter 2020

#StopPredatorgram - Telegram group of nonconsensual pictures.

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What encouraged the individual to speak up? How did it help to strengthen individual power. How did it allow new kinds of subjectivities to be recognised and named? E.g. transpeople etc – allowing them to be recognised as political subjects

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Is #metoo without shortcoming? Is there a downside to #metoo? Was harm created in the process and in what way?

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Why does #metoo mean to you?What have we achieved with #metoo? How did it help the movement? In what way? What does this mean for us moving forward? How did the online and offline actions speak to and strengthen each other?

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Whose narratives have we learnt? Whose narratives have we not heard of? Why is #metoo unable to surface these narratives? What are the barriers and challenges? Was there a diversity of actions?

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When, where and how did #metoo happened in the local context? What was it responding to, is it a sustained or an immediate thing? How long did it last? What actions were taken? Who participated in the conversations? Who were named as perpetrator? Where did the conversation happened?

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How did it enable people to gather, congregate, come together?  What resources or supports were made available to survivors? How did people come together to push back?Who had been fundamental in enabling the conversations? What roles do laws, government, civil society, individuals, platforms company played in this?

Think specifically how has technologies facilitates the movement.