“Silence Breakers” are the Time Magazine Person of the Year

The people who spoke up about sexual misconduct have been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2017.

The magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal revealed the selection on Wednesday along with the cover, a composite group photo that includes actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler and a woman whose face cannot be seen.

“The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,” Felsenthal said in a statement.

The Silence Breakers emerged amid burgeoning allegations of sexual misconduct and assault by film executive Harvey Weinstein. As his list of accusers swelled, so did the number of people who spoke up to expose dozens of other famous individuals in Hollywood, politics, journalism and other industries as sexual predators.

Their stories of sexual harassment and sexual abuse, which cost major figures like movie mogul Harvey Weinstein their jobs, sparked the #MeToo movement that’s changed workplaces in industries across the world.

“This is the fastest moving social change we’ve seen in decades,” Time editor in chief Edward Felsenthal said.

Each year, the magazine picks the person, group or concept that has most influenced the news and the world “for good or ill.”