Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「Writer Kellee Terrell spoke to Oronike Odeleye, one of the co-founders of #MuteRKelly, another viral hashtag that morphed into an influential movement. Odeleye opens up about how rage sparked the hashtag, how and why so many people knew about R. Kelly’s past predatorial behavior and said nothing, and why we need more men to speak out.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "I started #MuteRKelly in July 2017 out of a feeling of outrage," Odeleye tells Terrell. "After decades of blatantly abusing Black women and girls, R. Kelly was going on with his life with our community-sanctioned support. Honestly, none of us can deny that we always had the receipts and heard the stories; we didn’t want to believe them and deal with the truth. So we turned our backs on Black women."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "The anger in that simmered inside me, and when I learned that he was living in Atlanta — not just my backyard, but the nation’s sex trafficking capital — I knew I couldn’t be complicit," Odeleye says.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "When Kenyette Barnes, co-founder of #MuteRKelly, reached out to extend her communications savviness to join forces with me, we created a movement bigger than we could have imagined," says Odeleye. "Granted, it wasn’t easy. In the beginning, we were bombarded with hate mail, accusing us of 'trying to bring down a good Black man.' We were called agents for 'doing white people’s work.' Sadly, a majority of the backlash we received was from Black women."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "But we also saw change, and not just about R. Kelly, but about rape culture in our community. Thanks to our movement and movements like #MeToo, the conversation began to shift. The language we use around consent, sexuality and sex work didn’t just evolve among Black young women and girls, but among older women and even men, too."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read the full story at our link in bio. // 📷 @lnweatherspoon」2月12日 9時09分