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Actresses Explain What Wearing Black to the 2018 Golden Globes Means to Them


The Golden Globes became one of the most talked-about award shows of the 2018 season long before the red carpet was officially rolled out, thanks to the 300 founding members of Time’s Up. The movement is a Hollywood-based initiative that hopes to address issues of systemic gender inequity and sexual harassment across industries through legal aid and other resources, as well as their first public manifestation—a fashion blackout at the first big award ceremony of the year. The call to action was simple (and wasn’t limited to women, or even to those who received an invitation the Globes): Wear black on Sunday to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual abuse. Time’s Up also created a pin for folks to wear throughout awards season to show support for the cause. The response to the dress code has been divided, with some characterizing it as an “empty gesture” and others questioning whether simply color-coordinating is enough of a stand—all criticisms that members of Time’s Up recognize, but also don’t feel deterred by. Many actresses who plan on wearing black to tonight’s ceremony have shared deeply personal reasons for wanting to participate, and have expressed a desire and determination to do more after. To them, the blackout isn’t the end-all-be-all—it’s the tone-setter for an awards season that will be unlike any we’ve seen, and hopefully one that continues some tough conversations, on and off the red carpet. Ahead, six women tell Glamour what wearing black to the Golden Globes means to them.





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8 Time's Up Actresses Are Bringing Incredible Activists With Them to the Golden Globes


The Golden Globes, broadcasting on Sunday night (January 7), will be making a huge statement on the red carpet: After months of sexual misconduct allegations that have shaken the industry and toppled its most powerful men, actresses and actors will be wearing black as a way to make a statement about the events. The questions they’re asked on the red carpet—usually something about what designer they’re wearing—are rumored to be switching up to questions about the stars’ actual work. But those aren’t the only statements being made: According to a press release, eight Golden Globes attendees, including Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, and Amy Poehler, will be bringing gender and racial activists with them to the event “in a show of support for victims of sexual harassment and assault.” And we’re talking some truly incredible women.

“Our goal in attending the Golden Globes is to shift the focus back to survivors and on systemic, lasting solutions,” the activists said in a collective statement. “Each of us will be highlighting legislative, community-level and interpersonal solutions that contribute to ending violence against women in all our communities. It is our hope that in doing so, we will also help to broaden conversations about the connection to power, privilege and other systemic inequalities.”

The statement continues, “Many of us identify as survivors of sexual harassment, assault and violence ourselves and we believe we are nearing a tipping point in transforming the culture of violence in the countries where we live and work. It’s a moment to transform both the written and unwritten rules that devalue the lives and experiences of women. We believe that people of all genders and ages should live free of violence against us. And, we believe that women of color, and women who have faced generations of exclusion—Indigenous, Black, Brown and Asian women, farmworkers and domestic workers, disabled women, undocumented and queer and trans women—should be at the center of our solutions. This moment in time calls for us to use the power of our collective voices to find solutions that leave no woman behind.”

Read on to find out who’s bringing whom, as well as about the powerful work each of the activists has done in her field.

Michelle Williams is bringing Tarana Burke.
Tarana Burke is perhaps best known for starting the #MeToo movement an entire decade ago. It began as a way to help sexual assault survivors in underprivileged communities who didn’t have access to care, like counseling or crisis centers, following an assault. “It wasn’t built to be a viral campaign or a hashtag that is here today and forgotten tomorrow,” Burke told Ebony. “It was a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know that they were not alone and that a movement for radical healing was happening and possible.” Burke is also a co-founder of the youth organization Just Be, Inc., which focuses on the holistic well-being of girls of color.

Emma Watson is bringing Marai Larasi.
Marai Larasi is the executive director of Imkaan in the UK, which is a prominent Black-feminist network that includes specialist women’s organizations and community groups focusing on ending violence against Black and “minority ethnic” women and girls. In addition to her work as co-chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, the country’s biggest network of related organizations, she actively contributes to books and related literature and has been named one of the 100 most influential LGBT people of the year on the World Pride Power List in 2013.

Susan Sarandon is bringing Rosa Clemente.
Rosa Clemente is a leading scholar on Afro-Latinx identity (known for her groundbreaking, discussion-catalyzing 2001 article “Who Is Black?“) and is the founder of Know Thy Self Productions, which produces community activism tours and consults on hip-hop feminism, media justice, and the right of Puerto Rico to be an independent nation. She also founded PR (Puerto Rico On The Map) after Hurricane Maria, an “independent, unapologetic” media collective centered on Afro-Latinx issues. Clemente also made history as the first Afro-Latina woman to run for VP of the U.S. in 2008 on the Green Party ticket.

Meryl Streep is bringing Ai-jen Poo.
Ai-gen Poo has been a leader in organizing female immigrant workers for more than 20 years, leads the National Domestic Workers Alliance as its director, and also co-directs the Caring Across Generations campaign. She’s also a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been listed as one of Fortune‘s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders.

Laura Dern is bringing Mónica Ramírez.
Mónica Ramírez is the founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, the organization that wrote a stirring and powerful letter of solidarity to women in Hollywood in November. The daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, she now serves female farmworkers, Latina, and immigrant women as an attorney and advocate. Ramírez has also founded art activism projects and a legal initiative for immigrant women at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Shailene Woodley is bringing Calina Lawrence.
Calina Lawrence is an Indigenous activist who draws on her passion of singing and music to lead her work advocating for Native Treaty Rights, the Mni Wiconi (Water is Life) movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and the “#NoLNG253” movement, led by the Puyallup Tribe. Other focuses of her activism include mass incarceration, police brutality, gentrification, climate injustice, foster youth, the misrepresentation of Native Americans in education and the media, and many other topics.

Emma Stone is bringing Billie Jean King.
Emma Stone and Billie Jean King have developed something of an offscreen friendship following Stone’s portrayal of the tennis legend in Battle of the Sexes. Beyond her incredible career in tennis, King founded the Women’s Tennis Association, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, and the Women’s Sports foundation. King also co-founded World TeamTennis.

Amy Poehler is bringing Saru Jayaraman.
Saru Jayaraman founded Restaurant Opportunities Centers United after 9/11 with displaced World Trade Center workers. Today, the organization is the leader of the One Fair Wage campaign, which is working to eliminate lower wages for tipped workers, like bartenders and servers in the food industry. In her work with ROC, Jayaraman also carries out activist efforts for workplace justice campaigns for those in the industry, launches cooperative restaurants, and conducts research and policy work.

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–Time’s Up Empowers American Women—Now It’s Our Duty to Empower Others Around the World





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At the Golden Globes, Hollywood Men Will Be Joining Actresses in Wearing All Black


During the last few months, the #MeToo movement has not just resurfaced but taken down powerful men in Hollywood. One of the first notable casualties, of course, was Harvey Weinstein back in October, whose downfall catalyzed a wave of damning allegations that have sunk other once-prestigious mens’ careers. Earlier this month, actresses announced that they’d be protesting sexual abuse and harassment in the industry by wearing all black to the Golden Globes, the first major award show of the new year, on January 7—and now actors are joining in.

People confirmed in mid-December that major actresses and female presenters, like Meryl Streep and Emma Stone, would wear black in solidarity with the #MeToo movement. But celebrity stylist Ilaria Urbinati posted on her Instagram account Saturday that all of her prominent male clients will be wearing black to the Golden Globes, too.

“Because everyone keeps asking me… YES, the men WILL be standing in solidarity with women on this wearing-all-black movement to protest against gender inequality at this year’s Golden Globes,” she wrote. “At least ALL MY GUYS will be. Safe to say this may not be the right time to choose to be the odd man out here… just sayin…”

Hear, hear.

One of her clients, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, formalized his participation by commenting, “Yes we will.” Urbinati also represents Tom Hiddleston and Call Me By Your Name actor and Best Supporting Actor nominee Armie Hammer.

Granted, women do have a lot more styles, shapes, and colors to work with on the red carpet than men, who generally stick to some iteration of a black tux. But the fact that these actors are publicly standing with their female counterparts is a decision worth noting.

Related Stories:
–Meryl Streep Replies to Rose McGowan’s Criticism: ‘I Didn’t Know’ About Harvey Weinstein
–Amber Tamblyn Slams Rose McGowan for ‘Shaming’ Actresses Planning to Wear Black to the Golden Globes
–Actresses Will Reportedly Dress in Black at 2018 Golden Globes in Solidarity With Harassment Victims





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Amber Tamblyn Slams Rose McGowan for 'Shaming' Actresses Planning to Wear Black to the Golden Globes


Last Thursday various news outlets reported that the 2018 Golden Globes would be going dark, thanks to actresses who are reportedly planning to wear black in solidarity with sexual harassment victims. Although no stars (or their stylists) confirmed these reports, the rumors did not sit well with Rose McGowan, who took to Twitter over the weekend to criticize would-be protesters. “Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black @GoldenGlobes in a silent protest,” she wrote in a since-deleted Tweet, according to Vanity Fair. “YOUR SILENCE is THE problem. You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly & affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy. Maybe you should all wear Marchesa.” (Marchesa is the fashion brand founded by Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s wife.)

Now Amber Tamblyn is calling out McGowan’s call-out tweet, telling her friend in a public thread that these comments are inappropriate. “THREAD: Rose McGowan is a friend and while I support her kind of movement, I do not support any woman (or man) shaming or taunting the movements of other women who are trying to create change,” she wrote on Monday. “Telling us to all wear Marchesa? This is beneath you, Rose.”

“You don’t have to support and stand with us, but we stand and support you,” Tamblyn continued. “You may take below-the-belt shots at us but we will not take them at you in return. Our movement is big. And a black dress is just the beginning of the darkness that will be drained from every industry across the country by the time we’re done. That’s a promise.”

She concluded the thread with a hashtag referencing the workplace sexual assault and harassment reforms that will hopefully take place in light of the #MeToo movement. “And we stand together in this fight, shoulder to shoulder, weapon to weapon, woman to woman (and man), body to burned body,” she tweeted. “And our arms are open. And our hearts two fold. And our fire will be a universal scorch. Heed the mantra: #ChangeIsComing.”

Both McGowan and Tamblyn have been outspoken figureheads of the #MeToo movement. McGowan went public accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape, while Tamblyn, in an open letter, accused actor James Woods of trying to pick her and a friend up when she was 16.

Other prominent women in the #MeToo movement have since weighed in on Tamblyn’s thread. Asia Argento, whose harrowing account of her alleged sexual assault at the hands of Weinstein was detailed in Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker story, tweeted, “I wish you’d have written this thread addressing it directly to @rosemcgowan, or even better, called or texted her, since you are friends.” “Asia, I did. I spoke to her for over an hour,” Tamblyn replied.

McGowan’s Charmed costar Holly Marie Combs also addressed Tamblyn. “You just did to @rosemcgowan what you claim you don’t support her doing to others,” she tweeted. “Every activist for every cause the world over has different methods but share a common and more important message that should remain the same. And undiluted above all else.”

Related: #MeToo Founder Tarana Burke on What Should Happen After the Hashtag





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Actresses Will Reportedly Dress in Black at 2018 Golden Globes in Show of Solidarity for Harassment Victims


Expect to see dark hues trending during the 2018 Golden Globes red carpet—for a poignant reason.

Various outlets—including The Hollywood Reporter, and People—are reporting that “many major actresses,” including nominees Jessica Chastain and Meryl Streep, are expected to dress entirely in black for this year’s Golden Globes, specifically to protest sexual harassment and gender inequality in Hollywood. “All female actresses attending the Globes are protesting by just wearing black gowns,” one of People‘s sources, who are all unnamed, said. When reached for comment, a representative for various celebrity stylists couldn’t confirm these reports.

If indeed executed, this trend would mirror previous instances of coordinated dressing at awards ceremonies, as seen in the past with blue ACLU ribbons at the Oscars and Emmys.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Globes, which air on January 7, will address the post–Harvey Weinstein landscape in Hollywood, as this will be the first major ceremony to occur since the scandal broke. The Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will take place on January 21, announced it will be allowing only female presenters.)

Many of this year’s Golden Globe nominees, perhaps most prominently Chastain, have been highly vocal about how Hollywood needs to change in this new, post-Weinstein climate. “I was warned from the beginning,” Chastain wrote in a tweet about Weinstein; “I’m sick of the media demanding only women speak up. What about the men? Perhaps many are afraid to look at their own behavior,” she wrote in another. She later said her tweets got her in trouble with a famous actor.

Meanwhile, Streep—another actress named in People‘s report—also condemned Weinstein and the power dynamics of Hollywood men in another statement. “The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported. The intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse are our heroes,” she wrote in the fall. “The behavior is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar. Each brave voice that is raised, heard and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.”

And Lord knows what Seth Meyers, the Golden Globes’s host this year, will talk about in his monologue. If his Late Night “Closer Look” segments are any indication, hell will most certainly be raised.



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Forbes Addressed the Lack of Diversity on Its Highest-Paid Actresses List


2017 has been a good year for diversity in film across the board. Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture; Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out is the most profitable film of the year; and Girls Trip, a film starring four women of color, was the surprise hit of the summer. That being said, we still have a long way to go. Yes, we’ve made progress, but the majority of speaking roles in major motion pictures still go to white performers—specifically, white men.

And this explains why there are no women of color in the top 10 of Forbes magazine’s highest-paid actresses list this year. The publication released its annual list earlier this week, and people were quick to notice the lack of diversity. Check it out for yourself, below:

  1. Emma Stone—$26 million

  2. Jennifer Aniston—$25.5 million

  3. Jennifer Lawrence—$24 million

  4. Melissa McCarthy—$18 million

  5. Mila Kunis—$15.5 million

  6. Emma Watson—$14 million

  7. Charlize Theron—$14 million

  8. Cate Blanchett—$12 million

  9. Julia Roberts—$12 million

  10. Amy Adams—$11.5 million

Stone getting the top spot this year is a no-brainer; her performance in La La Land earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lawrence, and Melissa McCarthy prove time and time again to be bankable stars, so their appearance isn’t a surprise. And Emma Watson did Beauty and the Beast this year, so, again, duh. But no actresses of color? How is that possible?

Like we said earlier, it’s the lack of roles. Forbes associate editor Natalie Robehmed confirmed this in a statement released yesterday.

“The lack of diversity on the list comes down to roles: Only 28.3% of all speaking roles across formats go to characters from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, according to a 2016 study,” she said, Cosmo reports. “That means there are simply fewer characters—and fewer high-paying roles—written for women of color. When studios, directors and screenwriters begin creating more main characters for women of color in the types of big budget movies that pay huge upfront fees and backend profits, we’ll see more actors of color on the list.”

Hollywood doesn’t have any more excuses for ignoring this issue. Many studio executives, I believe, used to think films about women and people of color were niche—but Get Out and Girls Trip dispel that completely. These films make money—and people want to see them. It’s time for the industry to wake up.



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