The truth isn’t so easy. I had a choice of going either to school or surviving. I had to help my madrecita put food on the table and raise my brother. But the system doesn’t reward those priorities. Instead, the system made me and my family suffer. It’s deporting my friends, it’s killing families, it’s…
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Charlize Theron gave an incredible speech when she accepted her Glamour 2019 Women of the Year Award on Monday night—and it should be required reading. The actor, who’s set to appear in the upcoming movie Bombshell, took the stage at New York’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on Monday, November 11. She was introduced…
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Ava DuVernay (of course) delivered an incredible, moving speech when she accepted her Glamour 2019 Women of the Year award at Alice Tully Hall in New York on Monday, November 11. Niecy Nash, who starred in DuVernay’s Netflix limited series When They See Us, put it best when she presented the director with her award:…
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Glamour‘s 2019 Women of the Year Awards went down tonight, November 11, in New York City, and so many celebrities came out for it. Everyone from Kate McKinnon to Aja Naomi King showed up and showed out on the red carpet. Naturally, the honorees—which included Charlize Theron, Megan Rapinoe, and Ava DuVernay—looked stunning as well.…
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“I’ve always had something inside me, something like an alarm that goes off when something isn’t right or when someone is trying to pull a fast one on me,” she told the crowd. “I’ve been like this my whole life; people even called me Bossy Stassi growing up. It’s been my experience that women who…
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Fast-forward a couple of years later, the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Wit landed on my desk. It’s written by Margaret Edson about a woman with stage IV ovarian cancer. By the time I finished reading the script, I was weeping. I flew to New York and auditioned. I knew it was required for the lead to…
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