For the first time in the history of O magazine, Oprah is stepping aside, and letting another face take center stage: Breonna Taylor. “We can’t be silent. We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice,” she said.
Tag: We Heart
Feminist stuff worth celebrating.
We Heart: AOC’s Feminist Clapback— “I Am Someone’s Daughter Too”
AOC claps back to Republican Rep. Ted Yoho’s response to his own sexist attack on her on the steps of the Capitol on Monday.
We Heart: Kerry Washington Urges Teaching Black History Before Slavery
Kerry Washington says it is important to teach kids a Black history that starts before slavery— “before Black people were told what they couldn’t do.”
We Heart: BLM Protester Samantha Francine Stares Down Racism
When faced down by racist man Jay Snowden at a Black Lives Matter protest in Whitefish, Montana, Samantha Francine pushed up her sunglasses so she could stare right back at him. She did not back down.
“I have not always been this version of myself. It has taken a long time for me to find my strength the way I did that day. … This is the first time in 27 years I have truly found my voice as a woman of color.”
We Heart: Journalists “Sick and Tired” of Newsroom Inequality
Over the past week, journalists at publications across the country have publicly expressed their discontent with the way that newsrooms have been covering recent protests.
We Heart: The “Mrs. Files” and Women’s Right to Their Own Names
How many women and feminist trailblazers have been historically called by their partners’ names—boiling them down to the mere “Mrs.” version of their husbands?
The answer: a lot.
We Heart: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms Standing Up for Black Communities
From calling out Trump’s racist rhetoric to Gov. Kemp’s reckless reopening of Georgia, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms does not shy away from standing up for what she thinks is right—and calling out what’s wrong.
We Heart: ArtActivistBarbie Taking on Patriarchy in the Art World
Posing in front of mosaic tiles and Victorian paintings, sporting handmade outfits like feathered, cotton candy-colored dresses or quarantine-friendly bathrobes, a young woman exposes the misogynistic undertones of art at big-name museums like the National Gallery in London and the Getty in Los Angeles. She stands at about a foot tall with an annotated notecard on a small wooden stick in hand. Her name is Barbie.
We Heart: Beyonce and Megan Thee Stallion’s Empowering “Savage” Remix
Beyonce gallops into the rap scene alongside the stunning Stallion! Stallion’s collaboration with Beyonce has created an empowering bop whose proceeds go to helping others during this trying time.
Trump Attempted to Move a Reporter to the Back of the Room. Nevertheless, She Resisted.
We stand with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and other women reporters who continue to show Trump, and his White House, that intimidation and humiliation did not, and will not, work in a country where our press is free, and news is real.