--- title: Anita Hill Documentary: On the Future of Sexual Harassment description: It's been two decades since the nation began to talk about Anita Hill. She has some thoughts on what we should talk about next. canonical: https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-17T15:41:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:01.104Z og:title: Anita Hill Documentary: On the Future of Sexual Harassment og:description: It's been two decades since the nation began to talk about Anita Hill. She has some thoughts on what we should talk about next. og:url: https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea540d1c498dda6/6986858135ba6f2c99c00f9c/anita_final.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Anita Poster og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Anita Hill Documentary: On the Future of Sexual Harassment twitter:description: It's been two decades since the nation began to talk about Anita Hill. She has some thoughts on what we should talk about next. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea540d1c498dda6/6986858135ba6f2c99c00f9c/anita_final.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Anita Hill Has a Vision for the Future  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 17, 2014 3:41 PM UTC  Samuel Goldwyn Films  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Mar 17, 2014 3:41 PM UTC Anita Hill is back in the news — but this time, it’s because of a movie. Hill, who first rose to national prominence in 1991 when she testified in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of her former boss Clarence Thomas, alleging that Thomas had sexually harassed her, is now the subject of the documentary _Anita_ (in theaters March 21). The film — by Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock — has won raves at festivals, but the maelstrom of 23 years ago are still a touchy subject for the woman at its center. [This week’s issue of TIME](http://time.com/23002/anita-hill-returns-in-new-documentary/) takes a look at why Hill decided to participate in the documentary. The reasons are multifaceted — unsurprisingly, considering the controversial and complicated case that serves as the film’s subject. But one of them is not so difficult to parse: Hill’s testimony brought sexual harassment into the national conversation, and there it remains. People _know_ what sexual harassment is and are willing to talking about it; in 1991, they weren’t. As Hill told TIME, she’s glad to see the work done by modern activists, who are also featured in the film — and though _Anita_ isn’t strictly an advocacy film, it highlights the modern state of sexual harassment. And that’s why Hill says she has some thoughts about what needs to happen next. Here’s what she said about her vision for the future: --- > “” --- And that — even though Hill’s still a controversial figure — should be something _everyone_ can get behind. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/"},"headline":"Anita Hill Has a Vision for the Future","datePublished":"2014-03-17T15:41:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:01.104Z","description":"It's been two decades since the nation began to talk about Anita Hill — and she has some thoughts on what we should talk about next","url":"https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/","keywords":["Living","feminism","women","Entertainment","gender","movies","Documentary","activism","harassment","sexual harassment","Advocacy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea540d1c498dda6/6986858135ba6f2c99c00f9c/anita_final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea540d1c498dda6/6986858135ba6f2c99c00f9c/anita_final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Anita Poster","caption":"Anita Poster","creditText":"Samuel Goldwyn Films","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/25212/anita-hill-documentary-sexual-harassment/","name":"Anita Hill Has a Vision for the Future"}}]}] ```