Time magazine names sexual abuse ‘Silence Breakers’ as Person of the Year

Time magazine has named “The Silence Breakers” who revealed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and assault across various industries that triggered a national reckoning in the United States as 2017 Person of the Year.

“The



Silence Breakers” designates a broad range of people, mostly women, from first public accusers of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to those who shared their stories of abuse using the hashtag #MeToo and its foreign language equivalents.