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Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning
- How #MeToo Is Changing Australia
- Narrated by: Jess Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets.
In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill traces the conditions that gave birth to #MeToo and tells the stories of women who – often at great personal cost – found themselves at the centre of this movement. Hill exposes the networks of backlash against them – in government, media, schools and in our national psyche. This is a powerful essay about shame, secrecy and, most of all, a revolutionary movement for accountability.
“Here’s what men like Scott Morrison don’t understand: political spin has no power against the rage unleashed by #MeToo. At its heart, this is an accountability movement.... The cultural revolution of #MeToo is not just about sexual violence. It is taking aim at patriarchy’s most sacred compact: the keeping of men’s secrets.” Jess Hill, The Reckoning
Jess Hill is an investigative journalist and the author of See What You Made Me Do and the Quarterly Essay The Reckoning. She has been a producer for ABC Radio and journalist for Background Briefing and Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail. Her reporting on domestic abuse has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards. See What You Made Me Do won the 2020 Stella Prize and the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-12-2021
Excellent and a must-listen
Jess Hill has done it again, she is just brilliant! Everyone in Australia needs to listen to this.
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- Jax
- 11-01-2022
Jess is BRILLIANT
Fantastic Essay, providing remarkable insight told with empathy. Jess masters her craft once again. More please Jess 🙏🏽🙌🏽👍🏽
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- Sarah Cook
- 25-01-2022
Jess Hill is excellent
Jess Hill is so excellent. She has previously written extensively on the topic of domestic violence in Australia, most notably in the unforgettable "See What You Made Me Do" (2019). In this 2021 Quarterly Essay she turns her academic and journalistic eye to the MeToo movement, with particular focus on how it is impacting the Australian context.
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- Michelle Stanton
- 17-02-2022
Indepth piece shows complexities
The complexities of this topic are broad, as Jess Hill demonstrates with her usual attention to detail. Some of the scenarios pulled me up short with the realisation of "Holy crap. Me too." The issues raised are so endemic in our culture, I'd gotten to the ripe old age of 52 before it dawned on me. How terrible is that?
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-2022
Brilliant
Thanks for a perfect job in all respects. Research, opinion and delivery . Thanks Jess Hill. More power to you and women all around the world.
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- Melania
- 22-07-2022
We’ll written, insightful and timely
To understand where we need to go next, we need to understand what has just been and this essay does a great job of breaking down the key moments of this movement. It was sometimes hard to hear the atrocities, and what women have had to go through, putting their lives, careers and mental health in the line for us to achieve basis human rights as women. Everyone should read this.
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- Rosie C
- 05-12-2021
Electrifying essay
An amazing summary of the perfect storm that created the global #metoo movement, what the movement is really about, and the implications for Australia. Am recommending to everybody, it's a really powerful listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-2022
Very powerful - essential listening.
I love it how men who have clearly not listened to this incredibly well-written essay claim that writing about male violence is attacking all men!
This is an excellent and well-researched piece about the way the patriarchy has conditioned boys to treat the ‘female’ as inferior, and how this conditioning has created a toxic masculine ‘rape culture’ that has silenced women…..until now.
Far from being “anti-male”, Jess Hill’s essay illuminates how the “me too” movement has shone a light on the ubiquitous sexual violence experienced by women, and how the patriarchy is trying to fight back against equality and accountability.
Jess Hill’s narration is great to listen to.
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- pahge
- 12-12-2021
Excellent
Great overview of the movement in Aus. Jess Hill keeping the light on important issues.
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- AnnC
- 16-04-2022
Thorough and enraging
The context, the extent of the problem, the closeness to reducing it that Morrison and colleagues stopped. Wow.
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