Kesha made a triumphant return to music last August when she released Rainbow, her first album in five years. The record is significant and powerful for several reasons: Chiefly, it’s her first effort without production credits from Dr. Luke, the hit-maker whom she sued for emotional and physical abuse in 2014. This lawsuit put Kesha’s…
Read moreA number of men in Hollywood have struggled with how to address the current culture of #MeToo and Time’s Up. There was that time when none of the male winners at the Golden Globes brought up the subject. And then there was Matt Damon‘s press tour for “Downsizing”, where the actor found himself in the…
Read moreIn the wake of a week when #TimesUp and #MeToo again dominated headlines—starting at the Golden Globes and continuing with allegations against James Franco—a new frontier in the conversation around sexual consent and coercion opened up over the weekend following unsettling allegations concerning actor and comedian Aziz Ansari. In a report posted January 13 on…
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There’s always, inevitably, a backlash. No matter the scale or integrity of a movement, its imperfections—of which there are sure to be some—are sliced open and dissected as if they are pox covering the entire body instead of a few small pimples on the chin. The faults of the few become the failings of the…
Read moreCatherine Deneuve, the 74-year-old French actress known for her decades-long career, has joined 99 other women in signing an open letter that challenges the #MeToo movement and its French counterpart #Balancetonporc, claiming that the public campaigns infantilize women, limit sexual freedom, and contribute to “puritanical” and “totalitarian” thinking. The letter was published Tuesday in French…
Read moreAnother day, another #MeToo moment. This morning on The View, the hosts and model Ashley Graham got into a discussion about fashion photographer Terry Richardson and the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Graham revealed that as a young model she agreed to work with the acclaimed photographer, in spite of the rumors she’d heard…
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