Billboard Recognizes Gaga/Kesha For Anti-Harrassment Movement

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Billboard takes a look at a timeline of some of the most prominent incidents in the anti-harassment groundswell of 2017:

 

KESHA

Aug. 11: Kesha releases her empowering album Rainbow, the first new music from the singer in the wake of a several-years legal battle against former mentor/producer Dr. Luke, whom she accused of sexual assault and rape; Dr. Luke has denied the accusations. Without naming names, the singer makes it clear that the people in her life who have kept her down, denigrated her and abused her heart and mind have not and will not win on tracks such as "Praying," "Boots" and "Bastards."

Oct. 19: Kesha tweets out support for women sharing their stories. “I support the tremendous amount of women who are coming forward to tell their stories of harassment and abuse,” she tweeted.

 

 

GAGA

Oct. 16: After actress Alyssa Milano kicks off a massive Twitter trend by resurfacing social activist Tarana Burke's decade-old #MeToo hashtag as a means of showing solidarity with other sexual abuse/assault survivors in the wake of the Weinstein allegations, stars such as Lady Gaga, Sheryl Crow and Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino add their voices to the rising din.

 

Nov. 14: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Lady Gaga announce an initiative to provide support to victims of sexual assault by setting up trauma centers for long-term relief.

 

 

 

 

Source: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8061770/music-anti-harassment-movement-2017-lady-gaga-kesha

 

 

 

 

[gagagoogoose 30,952]

My Person of the Year: the true silent breakers

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

My silence breakers  

 

[Chromatislaps 34,838]

I lowkii would ship Gaga and Kesha as a couple  

[BELINDA POP 1,123]

Goddess of love indeed! 

[MJHolland 12,725]

Truly, almost none of the right people were recognized for their bravery in breaking their silence. 

[weed 73,521]

Not to mention the whole TIHTY era 

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

My own timeline:

Nov 2013- Gaga releases ARTPOP, and even though “Applause” is released earlier in August of that year as the lead single, Gaga wanted the first track, “Aura”, as lead single. The intro to that song has the lyric alluding to sending knives to Hollywood.

Sep 2015 - Gaga and Diane Warren releases “Til It Happens to You” for the documentary film The Hunting Ground about rape culture. The song is nominated at the Oscars in Hollywood in February 2016.

The rest is history. 

[Katie14 4,828]

But Gaga has been a sexual assault advocate for years.

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1 hour ago, gagagoogoose said:

My Person of the Year: the true silent breakers

 

1 hour ago, GypsyBabe said:

My silence breakers  

 

 

1 hour ago, MJHolland said:

Truly, almost none of the right people were recognized for their bravery in breaking their silence. 

[Jessica Germ 2,036]

The real silence breaker 

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TIME better take ᶠᵘᶜᵏing notes. This is true activism. Consistency and passion.

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1 hour ago, Katie14 said:

But Gaga has been a sexual assault advocate for years.

they've only focused on 2017 in this article