Anita Hill Wants You to Report Misconduct in Hollywood and Launched a Service to Help
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A new online service, MyConnext, will enable professionals in the entertainment industry with info on how to report harassment and misconduct in the workplace. The service arrives via the Hollywood Commission, an organization whose mission is to combat abuse and power disparity in the film world, which is led by Anita Hill.
“MyConnext is a powerful, new, secure, all-in-one online tool, resource center, and reporting system for entertainment industry workers exploring their options when confronting harassment, bullying, or any workplace abuse,” a message on the Hollywood Commission’s website says. “Workers will have access to a ‘hold for match’ tool, as well as the impartial guidance of an ombuds who can help them choose their own paths.” Users can file complaints anonymously if they choose.
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Participating organizations with MyConnext include the DGA, WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the Kennedy/Marshall Company, according to TheWrap. Everyone working for Netflix productions in the U.S. will have access to the service, as will workers associated with some Amazon productions.
“Workers must believe they will be heard and safe to raise concerns about inappropriate workplace conduct,” Hill said in a statement via TheWrap. “[MyConnext] empowers workers who have experienced or witnessed harassment, discrimination, bullying or abuse by providing them with the resources they need, and reporting options for those who choose to come forward. And it does it in an environment that preserves and protects the rights of all parties with the dignity and sensitivity you would expect of a truly objective, fact-based user experience.”
Hill, a lawyer, rose to prominence in the early Nineties when she accused then–Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. After a widely televised hearing, in which Hill recounted her allegations, and debate on Capitol Hill, the Senate confirmed Thomas as a Justice with a narrow margin of 52-48.
Last month, she penned an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter in support of survivors of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse, after his guilty conviction was overturned in New York. “The case forces us to acknowledge that societal misconceptions about sexual violence continue to abound, providing support for the myth that women can’t be trusted to be truthful about being sexually assaulted,” she wrote. “These same fallacies find their way into our justice system, corrupting jurors’ understandings of the legal concepts of consent, relevance, and credibility, and what it means to have reasonable doubt.” Nevertheless, she wrote, “our movement will persist.”
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