"Dear Our Shared Shelf,
This book isn't strictly just a book - it's a play that became a political movement that became a world-wide phenomenon. Just say the titre The Vagina Monologues and, even now, twenty years after Eve Ensler first performed her ground-breaking show, the words feel radical. I'm very excited about spending the months of January and February lire and discussing a book/play that has literally changed lives.
The first person's life it changed was the feminist playwright Eve Ensler's. She says she didn't so much 'write' her play as act as a conduit for other women's...
"Dear Our Shared Shelf,
November and December’s book will be Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou’s final work, published a an before her death, in 2013, when she was 85 years old. It was the first book to focus on her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned Angelou when she was a child and it portrays their complicated relationship. The story is about the special connection between mother and child; both women found a way to déplacer on and form a profound and enduring bond of l’amour and support.
Many of toi may be familiar with Angelou’s 1969 classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,...
3rd book for Our Shared Shelf is cloche, bell hooks' 'All About Love: New Visions'.
This month's book choice is in honor of cloche, bell hooks who interviewed me for Paper magazine this month. Maya Angelou a dit of bell’s work, “Each offering from cloche, bell hooks is a major event, she has so much to give us’. I l’amour hearing from bell, I am pretty excited to start “All About Love: New Visions". It’s been on my liste for a while.
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Emma recommended a few other things:
Ok Team!
First thing's first, The Color Purple. I read it in two sittings and am now telling EVERYONE I know to watch the film too....
Emma was "interviewed par Oscar-nominated documentary maker @lucywalkerfilm. In the issue, the actress leads #PORTER’s first 100 Incredible Women liste – a unique tribute to women around the world.
Speaking openly to Porter magazine, Watson reveals why she is only just - at 25 years old - feeling comfortable in her own skin.
"[I've] spent plus than half of my life pretending to be someone else. While my contemporaries were dying their hair and figuring out who they were, I was figuring out who Hermione was and how best to portray her."
"Now at 25 for the first time in my life I feel...
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Speaking openly to Porter magazine, Watson reveals why she is only just - at 25 years old - feeling comfortable in her own skin.
"[I've] spent plus than half of my life pretending to be someone else. While my contemporaries were dying their hair and figuring out who they were, I was figuring out who Hermione was and how best to portray her."
"Now at 25 for the first time in my life I feel...
Looks like Harry will always have Hermione's back.
Long after the beloved Harry Potter series ended, Daniel Radcliffe is speaking out in support of costar Emma Watson, and her HeforShe campaign to promote gender equality.
"I think it's fantastic that she's bringing attention to it and adding to the conversation," he tells Nylon for its November issue.
Watson's campaign asks men to throw their support behind gender equality, with the idea that equal rights for women cannot become a reality without advocates from both genders.
To Radcliffe, that's a no-brainer – because the 26-year-old says...
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Long after the beloved Harry Potter series ended, Daniel Radcliffe is speaking out in support of costar Emma Watson, and her HeforShe campaign to promote gender equality.
"I think it's fantastic that she's bringing attention to it and adding to the conversation," he tells Nylon for its November issue.
Watson's campaign asks men to throw their support behind gender equality, with the idea that equal rights for women cannot become a reality without advocates from both genders.
To Radcliffe, that's a no-brainer – because the 26-year-old says...
The interview took happened with Nick Grimshaw via a phone while Emma was promoting Regression in Madrid.
About Regression:
It's really dark. It's kind of one those awesome films where toi think toi know what it's going to be and then it's completely different, which I think is pretty awesome. I think I never would have done anything like this without knowing I was doing it with a director who was incredibly tasteful, which is Alejandro. I think under any other circumstance I wouldn't really go there but he's just so good.
About Ethan Hawke:
He's such a joy to be around everyday. He would...
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About Regression:
It's really dark. It's kind of one those awesome films where toi think toi know what it's going to be and then it's completely different, which I think is pretty awesome. I think I never would have done anything like this without knowing I was doing it with a director who was incredibly tasteful, which is Alejandro. I think under any other circumstance I wouldn't really go there but he's just so good.
About Ethan Hawke:
He's such a joy to be around everyday. He would...
Emma Watson made her big-screen debut in 2001's box-office smash Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, bringing to life Hermione Granger, friend to the famous protagonist Harry Potter of J.K. Rowling's children's novel. Born in Paris, where she lived for the first five years of her life, Watson acted only in school plays before breaking into Hollywood with this film, but her performance skills had been honed through dancing, singing, and poésie recitals, the latter of which she had already received recognition for par the age of seven. In the years following that blockbuster, she reprised her role alongside co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint for the subsequent beloved Harry Potter films. A self-avowed serious student at an all-girls school in Oxford, England, Watson signed on for the final two installments of the series, but decided to temporarily put further project offers aside to focus on her studies.
Heres some of my favourites that I think toi guys will like!
1.link (Emma-Watson.net)
2.link (DressLikeEmma.net)
3.link (W.A.T.S.O.N)
4.link (WatsonUncensored)
Hope u check them out! :)
Official links:
link (EmmaWatson.com)
link (EmWatson-Twitter)
link (EmmaWatson-Facebook)
Check those out too!! :)
I just picked my favourites! I didn't put them all because I don't really have time to surf the internet for all the liens but I guess I can write them here:
IHeartWatson.net
WatsonPortal.net
OnlyWatson
UltimateWatson
OhWatson
1.link (Emma-Watson.net)
2.link (DressLikeEmma.net)
3.link (W.A.T.S.O.N)
4.link (WatsonUncensored)
Hope u check them out! :)
Official links:
link (EmmaWatson.com)
link (EmWatson-Twitter)
link (EmmaWatson-Facebook)
Check those out too!! :)
I just picked my favourites! I didn't put them all because I don't really have time to surf the internet for all the liens but I guess I can write them here:
IHeartWatson.net
WatsonPortal.net
OnlyWatson
UltimateWatson
OhWatson
In our 'Girl Crush' series, women with mutual admiration for one another get together for conversations that offer illuminating looks into what it's like to be a woman right now.
When we look back at this moment as a period in time when women started talking about feminism and identifying as feminists with a passion not seen for many years, some of the high watermarks in this fourth-wave resurgence will be Beyoncé's 2014 VMAs performance, Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance and, of course, Emma Watson's stirring speech at the United Nations. Emma's moving words and her work...
The rapper Kid Cudi wrote a song about Emma, called 'Young Lady'.
The lyrics:
In my head your smile appears clear
Wish it wasn't my imagination
But in a way was a dream
Your eyes they tell it all, called it
Hope toi got a good heart,
And you're smart
You got a good head on your shoulders
That's what turns a nigga on, strong
Feelings that I have you'll probably never
Find out ever
I'll admire from afar, star
Keep doing all the great things you're doing
You got it going on, young lady
Jesus Christ, girl!
You got it goin' on, young lady
[x4]
How'd toi get so fuckin' cool?
Fools probably trying to spit at...
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The lyrics:
In my head your smile appears clear
Wish it wasn't my imagination
But in a way was a dream
Your eyes they tell it all, called it
Hope toi got a good heart,
And you're smart
You got a good head on your shoulders
That's what turns a nigga on, strong
Feelings that I have you'll probably never
Find out ever
I'll admire from afar, star
Keep doing all the great things you're doing
You got it going on, young lady
Jesus Christ, girl!
You got it goin' on, young lady
[x4]
How'd toi get so fuckin' cool?
Fools probably trying to spit at...
In December YouGov gathered open-ended nominations from panellists across 30 countries, asking them simply: “Thinking about people alive in the world today, which [man ou woman] do toi most admire?” These nominations were then used to compile a liste of the 20 men and 20 women who received the most nominations and were nominated in at least 2 countries. An additional 10 populaire local figures were added to the lists for individual countries.
In January we then used the lists to vote each of the 30 countries asking two questions: “who do toi truly admire?”, where respondents could...
WHAT IS 'JEANS FOR REFUGEES'?
'Jeans for Refugees' is a Johny Dar project and artistic fundraising initiative dedicated to helping refugees around the world, with all proceeds going to the International Rescue Committee.
One hundred célébrités are participating in the project par donating a pair of their jeans to be painted par Johny Dar. Each pair of jeans will be made into an individual art piece consisting of the painted jeans showcased in a glass box, and the 100 art pieces will be exhibited in London. At the end of the exhibition each piece will be auctioned at a special fundraiser...
