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incredible WOMEN A celebration of the women who inspired us this year EDITED BY AJESH PATALAY #ImWithHer#BelieveWomen #MyJobShouldNotIncludeAbuse #ImANastyWoman#EqualValue #YesAllWomen#BlackLivesMatte r #EverydaySexism#TimesUp #BlackGirlMagic#HeForShe #MarchForOurLives#WhatIf #MeToo#PeriodPoverty#Beychella #OprahForPresident#ICallBS #WomensReality#WomensMarch #OneYearStronger

IN ASSOCIATION WITH One Year For 2018’s Incredible Women list, our fourth The Women Behind Stronger annual celebration of the women who have Time’s Up inspired and empowered us over the last year, there was one indisputable starting point, and not only because it marked the beginning In a decisive show of unity, 300 women in Hollywood – of our 12-month period. Last October, the #MeToo movement erupted when revelations including actresses and ASHLEY JUDD; producer SHONDA RHIMES; and Universal of sexual misconduct in the film, fashion and other industries broke. It was a reckoning Pictures chairman DONNA LANGLEY – put their names to a that shook the world and shifted the culture, and has remained the backdrop to every full-page open letter in on January 1, discussion. It also inspired the theme of this year’s list: One Year Stronger. For in the announcing the Time’s Up movement. (The letter followed a similar one published in Time magazine in November 2017 wake of those revelations, women have stood up and spoken out – whether on sexual from the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, written on behalf abuse, women’s rights, gun control or equal pay – in an unprecedented show of unity of 700,000 – mostly Latina – female farmworkers.) Born in and intent, and come through looking, feeling and being stronger than ever. response to revelations of sexual misconduct about , the Time’s Up campaign aims to reach beyond Alongside the countless game-changers and groundbreakers featured in these pages, Tinseltown to combat sexual in all spheres, with the establishment of a $13million legal defense fund to we are also honoring those Voices that made the world stop and listen – from EMMA help women in less privileged professions. It has also led GONZÁLEZ to OPRAH WINFREY – as well as the journalists who told the stories to a new Commission on Eliminating that needed to be told, among them The New York Times writers and Advancing Equality in the Workplace, chaired by Washington lawyer and academic ANITA HILL (US), who and , who broke the Weinstein story. And lest we forget the women who is best known for her high-profile 1991 allegations of sexual brought us joy – we share our 10 most life-afrming moments of 2018, which includes the harassment against Supreme Court incumbent Clarence Thomas – a watershed moment in the fight against wedding of MEGHAN, Duchess of Sussex, a hugely popular addition to the British royal workplace sexual misconduct. family and, significantly, already a successful actress, activist and businesswoman in her own right. In addition, we asked six global heroines, including , KARLIE KLOSS and CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, to nominate Contributors Ajesh Patalay their unsung heroines, in the hope of telling stories about women that HILL says Rebecca Broadley don’t necessarily get reported on. Because, as we see it, being an incredible “It is time to end the RHIMES says Ananda Pellerin woman isn’t about being famous, it’s about inspiring others through action. culture of silence. “If this group of women Picture research I’ve been at this work can’t fight for a model Kim Turney Finally, we are proud to share four exclusive letters, including one by for 26 years. This for other women who Nikki McClarron moment presents us don’t have as much Design written about why we need journalists now more than with an unprecedented power and privilege, Imogen Bellotti ever. Joining hers are letters by CAMERON RUSSELL addressed to the opportunity to make then who can?” Günther Spiegel fashion industry, TIFFANY HADDISH to her 18-year-old self (a letter of real change.” Sub Editor Rosanna Steinberg encouragement that all self-doubters should read), and to SAVITA HALAPPANAVAR, whose tragic death in 2012 led to this year’s historic vote in Ireland to repeal the ban on abortion. We hope these letters, and the list more broadly, stir you to stand up and speak out on the issues that matter to you.

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page 100 #IncredibleWomen incredible women Martyrs Carole Heroines of in the Field Cadwalladr October 2017 saw the tragic It was 48-year-old Observer writer lot of pushback because loss of three women who CAROLE CADWALLADR (UK) who led the I’m a woman and died while chasing down the investigation into the now defunct political I’m middle aged Journalism truth. Colombian radio consultancy , which and I’m really not reporter MARÍA EFIGENIA resulted in ’s very technical.” VÁSQUEZ ASTUDILLO was issuing a public apology in March for THEY say “She shot dead while covering clashes misuse of user data. The firm, which has not just demanded transparency, she has Amisha Padnani & between indigenous communities worked with President Trump’s election shown in her own brilliant reporting what and riot police in southwest team and the winning campaign, transparency looks like… telling us Jessica Bennett Colombia. Kurdish journalist had harvested some 50 million Facebook not just what she has found out about DILSHAN IBASH died from profiles without authorization in order the manipulation and subversion of the The brainchild of The New York Times digital injuries sustained from to profile individual US voters. democratic process in the US and obituary editor AMISHA PADNANI (US), 34, a suicide car bomb CADWALLADR says “The tech bros really the UK, but how she has found it.” and gender editor JESSICA BENNETT (US), while reporting on civilian hated this story right from the start. I got a Fintan O’Toole, 37 – the Overlooked series, launched in March, displacement in eastern Syria. corrected a longstanding injustice by honoring DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA, women on the obituary pages whose deaths had the Maltese journalist who never been marked. Among them – surprisingly – documented corruption in her CADWALLADR says were Charlotte Brontë and Sylvia Plath. home country, was killed by a BENNETT says “Since 1851, obituaries car bomb, though her murder “It is a triumph of sorts. in [The New York Times] have been has since led to a collaboration dominated by white men. Just 20 percent between 18 international have been women. When she died in news organizations to News has won over fake 1954, Frida Kahlo was referred to in continue the investigations she was the first sentence as the ‘wife of Diego pursuing when killed. news. Facts over lies” Rivera’, and only later as a painter.” PADNANI says “It is difcult for me as a journalist to see important stories go untold. But perhaps more important, Hanya Yanagihara Kim Wall as a woman of color, I am pained when the powerful stories of incredible women and Best known for her 2015 Man Booker The murder of freelance journalist — Heroines of Journalism — Journalism of Heroines — minorities are not brought to light.” Prize-shortlisted novel A Little Life, KIM WALL (Sweden) last August the editor of T:The New York Times by Danish entrepreneur Peter Style Magazine, HANYA YANAGIHARA Madsen, after she boarded his Megan Twohey & Jodi Kantor (US), 44, has brought a gift of submarine to interview him, storytelling to the magazine that highlighted a sad fact that even in Last October, The New York Times investigative TWOHEY says “I’d sit with my baby girl before work reminds us what newspaper the most progressive societies reporters MEGAN TWOHEY (left, US), 38, and JODI every morning and say, ‘Mom is going to the ofce to supplements are really capable of: women remain unsafe. It launched KANTOR (US), 43, were responsible (along with do something really important. It will hopefully make producing features on fashion a debate in Sweden about Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker) for breaking a story the world a safer place for .’” and culture that speak in an women’s vulnerability in the on alleged sexual misconduct by producer Harvey THEY say “The single most influential piece of oblique but trenchant way to workplace; and it also drew Weinstein that sparked an industry-wide reckoning. journalism I can remember. It instantly changed present-day political realities. attention to the work of an The report, which ran with a statement from Weinstein this country.” Rich Lowry, National Review editor Her flair is perhaps best intrepid reporter who had himself in which he pledged to exemplified by her ‘New York traveled to Uganda, Haiti, even “conquer my demons”, included an KANTOR says City, 1981-1983: 36 Months North Korea in pursuit of a story. account by Ashley Judd of Weinstein’s That Changed the Culture’ issue, THEY say “Kim was one of predatory behavior in a hotel suite. with its multiple covers featuring the few people who could lift The details (his ofer of a massage and “This is personal for everybody; Jennifer Beals, Larry Kramer and a room just by being in it.” request for her to watch him shower) Dapper Dan among others; and by her Christopher Harress, reporter creepily echoed reports by Angelina #MakeTSomething video series, in “Please don’t remember her Jolie, and others that whether you’re a woman who’s which artists make artworks using the as the murdered Swedish have followed since. When asked why pages of The New York Times itself. journalist who died in a grisly they chased this particular story, been harassed or you know THEY say “Hanya Yanagihara [has] horror straight out of a crime Kantor and Twohey said they did it made a style magazine for the drama. Remember her work.”

for their daughters. someone who has been” Photographs Katharina Poblotzki; Benjamin Haas; Sharon Atlia; David Levenson by Getty Images Trump Era.” The Cut Anna Codrea-Rado, reporter page 102 #IncredibleWomen #OneYearStronger incredible women Meryl Streep In her long line of power- Cate house performances, CATE Icons BLANCHETT (Australia) Although MERYL STREEP (US), 69, was in the news this year for a variety Blanchett served up a whammy this of reasons – including her response to the alleged sexual misconduct by Ruth Michelle May when, as president Harvey Weinstein – as an actress, she did what she always does and threw of the jury at the Cannes Film her weight behind a story she believed in. In ’s The Post, Bader Ginsburg Obama Festival, she led 82 women working about ’s attempts to publish the Pentagon Papers in in film along the red carpet on 1971, Streep earned a record 21st Oscar nomination playing publisher For US Supreme Court Since leaving the Croisette Promenade, in a Katharine Graham and endorsed a timely message – namely that a rigorous, Justice RUTH BADER the White House, silent protest at the lack of female free press is an essential part of a healthy democracy, which we should not GINSBURG, 2018 began with her as MICHELLE OBAMA (US), 54, has begun directors at the festival. Halfway only support, but celebrate and defend. Here, she writes an exclusive letter the subject of acclaimed documentary consolidating her legacy – unveiling an up the steps to the Palais des for PORTER about why we need good reporter now more than ever. RBG, in which the diminutive, enigmatic portrait of herself by Amy Festival, the 49-year-old double opera-loving, 85-year-old was shown Sherald and writing her version of events Oscar-winner stopped to read doing push-ups in a ‘Super Diva’ in a highly anticipated memoir, Becoming. a collective statement, along T-shirt. It ends with a biopic, By her own account, the book with French documentarian On the Basis of Sex, starring will be a “re-humanization Agnès Varda, that called for safer , and chronicling efort” that shares the working conditions for women We need to protect, defend and thank the current crop of journalists around the world, her early years as a lawyer in Unsung Heroines “ordinariness of a very and pay equality. because they, their scruples and their principles are the front-line defense of free and the 1970s fighting for equal extraordinary story” – fitting BLANCHETT says “As women, we informed people. rights. Both have cemented IMAN for a First Lady who got stuck in all face our own unique challenges, Ginsburg’s status as a cultural model promoting human-sized issues but we stand together on these Speaking up, with your name and face on your words, is a daunting prospect. A famous study phenomenon and torchbearer nominates such as healthy diet and exercise. stairs today as a symbol of our found that, for a quarter of the American population, fear of public speaking beat their fear of liberal hopes, particularly “Your story is what determination and commitment to DR HAWA ABDI OBAMA says of drowning, needles, snakes, heights or clowns. Scarier than clowns!? The study was ahead of a new appointment you have, what you will always progress. The stairs of our industry physician and activist conducted before the advent of the internet; now, anonymity allows the timid to hurl to the bench that promises have. It is something to own.” must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.” falsehood and invective as if they were swinging nunchucks, hitting and hurting without to swing the court to the fear of attribution (or retribution)… Death threats are the new normal. Armed escorts for right for generations. “In Somalia’s civil war, it is the press could be the next new thing. GINSBURG says “I ask no favor women and girls who fall Journalists today, investigative journalists, and especially female journalists, are for my sex. All I ask of our through the cracks. Dr Hawa,

brethren is that they take Somalia’s first female — Icons — vulnerable, doxxable and come under a special scrutiny online. They must vouch for their their feet of our necks.” gynecologist, created a stories, put their names on them, and as a result they attract the cowardly, the bullies, the STREEP says (to journalists) hospital in the Lower Shabelle brotherhood of bots and their easily aroused armies of haters. region, which has become a “You’re gorgeous, What is it to be brave, and why, in peacetime, do we need bravery? We need the brave ones out haven and home for thousands front picking through the field ahead of us for land mines so we don’t step on one, or elect of women, where they learn one… For all of us who rely on the news, but do not gather it, who are too busy to research it how to earn a living and take you’re ambitious, ourselves and stake our lives on its veracity, we need these relentless, annoying questioners, care of themselves in safety. these bullshit detectors, these modern-day Cassandras to report to us what they see, what Truly, 2018 has When militias have tried to been a slam- shut it down, Dr Hawa has contrarian, fiery, they hear, and which way leads over the cliff, so we can swerve to avoid it… dunk year for guarded it with her life. Once What’s the difference between bravery, and bravado? Bravery is terrifying and actual, CHER (US) thanks to her described as equal parts dogged and bravado is a parade. We see enough examples of Braggadocio and Bravado strutting around on Classic Cher residencies in Mother Teresa and Rambo, the public stage… But true bravery is Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, blown up Las Vegas and Washington DC; she is stubborn, fierce and determined in her car for reporting on the Panama Papers. Bravery is Patricia Mayorga, the Mexican her performance in Mamma makes me proud to be a journalist determined to expose corruption in her country, and the nexus between officials Mia 2 as Meryl Streep’s Somali woman.” bullshit detectives. and drug cartels. Bravery is Arwa Damon reporting from inside the Yazidi encampment as they mother; a musical based on her are being attacked by Isis. Bravery is every one of the journalists who has stood up recently life opening on Broadway; and the release of her first album in and attracted a bullseye on her back, just because she reported on and loves the truth. She I thank you.” five years. But that’s nothing on her serves the truth, for one reason: because without it, even the idea of a free society collapses. prolific output on , a running I applaud and revere our female journalists – I love them, and their equally undaunted commentary IN CAPS, tweeted to 3.4 brothers. We need them now more than ever… million followers under the banner Stand & B Counted or Sit & B Nothing, which is BLANCHETT says often hilarious, rarely grammatical and never apologizes for itself. If anyone could teach women not to give a damn what “The stairs of our industry must other people think, it would be her – the

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Rosemarie Voices Aquilina In January, it fell to JUDGE ROSEMARIE AQUILINA (US), of the that made the world 30th circuit court in Ingham County, Michigan, to sentence former USA gymnastics national team doctor stop and listen Larry Nassar to up to 175 years in prison for sexual assault, after he was accused of abusing more than Evan 140 women and girls. Many of his victims were allowed to share their Rachel Wood stories in court, addressing Nassar Frances directly. The judge’s half-hour In support of the Sexual Assault decision struck a damning blow, Survivors’ Bill of Rights, 30-year-old McDormand bristling with Aquilina’s own sense actress EVAN RACHEL WOOD (US) of disgust, and brought some level of testified in front of Congress in In a typically unconventional, closure to the countless victims of February, about her experiences as the but giddy-making speech at the his abuse, to whom she said: “You are victim of violent sexual assault. In a in March, where no longer victims, you are survivors.” harrowing account, she told of being FRANCES McDORMAND (US) won AQUILINA says raped and “mentally and physically Best Actress for playing an angry, (to Nassar)“I just tortured” by an ex-partner, drawing grieving mother in Three Billboards signed your death attention to what happens in the Outside Ebbing, warrant… As much as aftermath of such assaults when Missouri, the 61-year- it was my honor and victims grapple with enduring shame old actress expressed privilege to hear the and trauma (in her case, leading to two shock and joy at her survivors, it is my suicide attempts). The bill, which has win, before insisting it honor and privilege to — Voices — Voices — yet to be applied in all 50 US states, was time for “some sentence you. Because, afects the way rape kits are preserved perspective”. Then, sir, you do not deserve to walk outside of and would establish a task force having asked all the a prison ever again.” to represent communities from female nominees to diferent ethnicities and sexualities. stand up, she told the powerbrokers AQUILINA says (to the abused) THEY say “Storytelling is so important in the room to take notice (“we all in convincing people about policy have stories to tell”), and with her change. I know that that hearing parting words – “inclusion rider” – “Leave your moved the needle for progress.” she made the hitherto obscure Amanda Nguyen, Rise term (describing an equity clause pain here. Go (advocacy group for rape survivors) that insures on film Among the many women who says sets) common parlance. spoke out at the Women’s March “My testimony is one of being sexually McDORMAND says in January, VIOLA DAVIS (US) Davis assaulted and very much seeing out and do your “We [women] all have stories to tell and arguably went the deepest – not a childhood that was robbed from me. projects we need financed. Don’t talk to just in what she said, but how she said it, And I know that every single day, when magnificent us about it at the parties tonight; invite with an emotion-wrangling clarity of I think of that, I know that the trauma us into your ofce in a couple days, or voice and depth of feeling worthy of of those events are still with me today. you can come to ours, whatever suits you Martin Luther King Jr or Malcolm X, And that’s what drives me to the voting things” WOOD says best, and we’ll tell you all about them.” whose phrase “I’m gonna make it plain” booth. That’s what allows me to listen THEY say she made her own. The 52-year-old to the women who are still in silence. THEY say “Aquilina ofered renewed “So often we speak of these “Who better to give this impolite Oscar winner talked about sexual assault That’s what allows me to even be faith and hope to the hundreds of year its defining Oscar moment?” against women, and the particular a citizen on this planet.” thousands of people sexually assaults as no more than Michael Schulman, The New Yorker vulnerability of women of color, and THEY say assaulted each year. Not just that they “The most striking thing, here admitted to having been sexually abused “She left the attendees with a simple might one day see their rapists in in the room, about watching herself – “seeing a childhood robbed from request: that they not just clap because court, but that they might also be a few minutes of awfulness, the female nominees stand? me”. Ultimately, her message was of hope, the messages sound good, but that they able to transform their trauma There were so few of them.” though, and how the #MeToo movement actively seek progress for all.” into something very diferent.” but the scars last a lifetime” Jodi Kantor, The New York Times Kurt Krueger/Getty Images; Shutterstock Khateeb; Corina Marie Howell/AUGUST; Photographs Virginie playing out now was just the beginning. Taryn Finley, HuffPost Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic

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Emma On February 17, EMMA GONZÁLEZ (US), a survivor of Kristen Although a public letter in The Oprah lot of magnificent women, many of whom the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School New York Times signed by 300 are right here in this room tonight, and González in Florida, gave a speech on gun control, powered by fury Roupenian women in the film industry had Winfrey some pretty phenomenal men, fighting and calling “BS” on the many sophistries of the gun lobby, already laid out the pledges of hard to make sure that they become the including that gun-control laws wouldn’t prevent hundreds of killings. In December, 36-year-old writer the new Time’s Up initiative, it fell to leaders who take us to the time when A month later, at the March for Our Lives demo in Washington, she KRISTEN ROUPENIAN (US) hit OPRAH WINFREY at the Golden Globes, nobody ever has to say ‘me too’ again.” spoke again, ending her tearful address with six minutes and 20 a collective nerve when her 7,000- while receiving her Cecil B DeMille THEY say “Winfrey seemed to grab seconds of silence – the time it took for the Parkland shooting to occur. word fiction debut Cat Person was Award for lifetime achievement, to distill hold of every live wire of rage, sadness, THEY say “In its restraint, its published in The New Yorker and its message for a primetime audience hope and uncertainty dangling around symbolism, and its palpable emotion, went viral. Within a week, it was the in the most rousing, sermonic terms. the room and channel them into a González’s silence was a remarkable publication’s most-viewed page of all WINFREY says “I want all the girls truly breathtaking oration… It was GONZÁLEZ says piece of political expression.” time, with more than 2.6 million reads watching here, now, to know that a new a galvanizing and important speech, Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker to date. Coming out in the wake of the day is on the horizon. And when that new forward-looking and inclusive.” Harvey Weinstein scandal, the story day finally dawns, it will be because of a Michael Schulman, The New Yorker “This is my detailed the fallout from a bad date between 20-year-old Margot and Dame WINFREY says whole world now. 34-year-old Robert, and shone a light Tessa Jowell on the conciliations made by women out of fear, the chasm of expectation “For too long, women have not I cannot allow In January, former British between men and women, and the cabinet member DAME culture of blame that ensues when myself to stop TESSA JOWELL (UK) was relationships turn sour. been heard or believed if they met with an unprecedented ROUPENIAN says talking about this” minute-long standing ovation “It speaks to the way that dared to speak their truth to in the House of Lords, when many women, especially she gave an emotional speech about young women, move through the power of those men” her brain-cancer diagnosis. Her voice the world: not making people cracked several times and members of angry, taking responsibility Doria Michelle If the host’s purpose the House wiped away tears as she for other people’s emotions, at the White House talked about cancer treatment trials working extremely hard to Ragland Wolf Correspondents’ Dinner is and the Eliminate Cancer Initiative. In keep everyone around them happy. — Voices — Voices —

— Voices — Voices — to speak truth to power with May, the Labour peer died aged 70. It’s reflexive and self-protective, and When Meghan Markle plenty of jokes thrown in, this year’s it’s also exhausting, and if you do it married Prince Harry, speaker, 33-year-old stand-up JOWELL says long enough you stop consciously everyone had something to MICHELLE WOLF (US), did just that noticing all the individual moments say about it, and did. Except with her no-holds-barred jibes. Were when you’re making that choice.” for the mother of the bride, there oversteps – like her swipes at “In the end, THEY say “Although Cat Person is not DORIA RAGLAND (US), yoga press secretary Sarah Huckabee about abusive power relations or even, instructor, social worker and 62-year- Sanders? Perhaps. But as a comic what gives a strictly, non-consensual sex, it’s clearly old single parent. At the wedding itself, known for overstepping the line, Wolf the first example of #MeToo Lit.” she sat alone – as single parents do – in was fulfilling her brief. Plus, she David Sexton, London Evening Standard the Quire, quietly moved to tears, the wasn’t afraid to take on bigger targets life meaning model of grace and natural composure, such as the media, Congress and something she has gifted her daughter, President Trump, who skipped the is not only how who chose to ascend the chapel steps dinner for the second year running. ROUPENIAN says alone. Sometimes a voice is most Ultimately, her fearlessness seems it is lived, but powerful when it isn’t heard. eminently worth defending. “Many women RAGLAND says WOLF says “Just a reminder to Nothing, yet. And beautifully so. everyone, I’m here to make jokes, I have how it draws THEY say no agenda, I’m trying to get nothing move through “Despite the pitiful shenanigans accomplished, so Congress, you should to a close” of her ex-husband, Thomas feel right at home.” the world taking Markle, and the gossiping of her THEY say “The media THEY say “The embodiment ex-stepchildren, Ragland flew to needs to make sure it of empathy, a stellar progressive Heathrow to do what black women is speaking truth to change-maker and a well of responsibility for do: straighten the mess up. One vision power, not kowtowing practical compassion without rival: of the black mother depends on this to the powerful.” Tessa Jowell was the best of us.” other people’s kind of self-efacing altruism.” Arwa Mahdawi, John Bercow,

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This year, EMMA WATSON (UK) has been advocating on issues ranging from to sustainability, catalyzing the UK Time’s Up Network and Justice and Equality Fund, while also personally donating $5million to and Game-Changers women’s rights causes. In May, she tweeted a message of support to those voting in Ireland’s abortion referendum, framing their choice as a “vote for women’s rights [and] equality”. PORTER invited Watson to write a letter in Naomi Natacha honor of Savita Halappanavar, whose preventable death following a septic miscarriage in 2012 was the catalyst for the Kelman Ramsay-Levi referendum, in which a majority voted to legalize abortion. Breastfeeding rates When NATACHA RAMSAY-LEVI may be on the rise (France) was named creative in the US – the percentage of director at Chloé, she had big shoes babies being breastfed at six to fill – her predecessors months jumped from 35 to 49 had been Clare Waight between 2000 and 2010 – yet Keller and Phoebe Philo. Dear Dr Savita Halappanavar, breast-pump innovation But the 38-year-old has mostly been designer – who counts stagnant, with loud, iconic feminist campaigner You didn’t want to become the face of a movement, you wanted a procedure that inelegant pumps making Angela Davis as one of her would have saved your life. When news of your death broke in 2012, the urgent UNSUNG HEROINES it difcult for women to heroes – has already stamped her call to action from Irish activists reverberated around the world – repeal the WARIS DIRIE express comfortably at mark, bringing strength and edginess eighth amendment of the Irish constitution. Time and again, when our local and model, actress, activist work or in public. That to the brand’s signature femininity, global communities collectively mourn a tragic death due to social injustice, nominates is until last year when with clothes designed for working WATSON says we pay tribute, mobilize and proclaim: rest in power. A promise to the departed Savita SAFA IDRISS NOUR NAOMI KELMAN (US), women with “a purposeful stride”. and a rallying call to society, we chant: never again. But it is rare that justice actress who has spent 30 years truly prevails for those whose deaths come to symbolize structural inequality. “Supporting girls Halappanavar in product development, Rarer still is a historic feminist victory that emboldens the fight for “Safa played the little girl in announced the beta Livia everywhere. The tragic death in the female genital mutilation testing period for and women’s Galway of 31-year-old scene from my 2009 biopic Willow: a quiet, Schiavinato Eberlin Your family and friends were gracious and galvanizing in their sharing of dentist SAVITA Desert Flower, becoming a portable, battery- your memory. They told us you were passionate and vivacious, a natural-born — Game-Changers — organizations HALAPPANAVAR symbol of this cruel crime powered pump that fits Professor LIVIA SCHIAVINATO leader. I heard that at Diwali in 2010 you won dancer of the night, going on to (India) from septicemia against innocent girls. In inside a bra, allowing EBERLIN (Brazil), 32, is the lead choreograph routines with children in your community. I watch the video of is the greatest due to a miscarriage 2008 I saved three-year-old women to pump at researcher on the team that developed you dancing in Galway’s 2011 St Patrick’s Day parade and am moved to tears by caused a groundswell in Safa from FGM and home, on the go or the MasSpec Pen, which can be used your thousand-watt smile and palpable enthusiasm. Sharing their mourning Ireland, and led to a convinced her parents to send at work – especially to diagnose cancerous cells in 10 and hope with the world, your family publicly supported the Together for Yes hope we have referendum this May, in her to a private French school important in countries seconds, giving doctors a campaign. Celebrating repeal, your father expressed his “gratitude to the which 66 percent voted in Djibouti to protect her. such as the US, where more precise tool to decide to repeal the eighth Now, 10 years later, Safa is an there is no mandatory what to remove at the point people of Ireland”. In reciprocity, I heard Ireland’s ‘repealers’ say that they for worldwide amendment. The 1983 excellent student and a strong paid parental leave. of surgery. Unlike invasive owe your family a great debt. law gives an unborn fetus voice in the fight against FGM.” KELMAN says methods for detection, or A note on your memorial in read, “Because you slept, many of us woke.” change” the same protection as “[Our pump] lets women those that harm healthy That the eighth amendment enabled valuing the life of an unborn fetus over a its mother, making it live their lives... because cells, the pen is targeted and living woman was a wake-up call to a nation. For you – and those forced to EMMA WATSON’s call to action nearly impossible for women shouldn’t have sensitive (with an accuracy rate of 96 travel to the UK to access safe, legal abortion – justice was hard-won. From “Free, safe, legal and local abortion women to have an abortion. An to undress or give up who they percent) marking the dawn of a new Argentina to Poland, restrictive abortion laws punish and endanger girls, care is still needed across the globe. inquiry showed that there were 13 are to be a mother.” era in cancer detection. women and pregnant people. Still, Northern Ireland’s abortion law predates the People in Ireland will still be chances to save Halappanavar’s EBERLIN says light-bulb. In your memory, and towards our liberation, we continue the fight forced to travel to , life over the week she was under or access abortion pills online, medical care, and that she would for reproductive justice. until legislation is passed. have lived if she had been allowed to “Our technology could vastly Please consider supporting these abort the 17-week-old fetus. The Irish With all my love and solidarity, abortion funds, who provide government plans to introduce new practical and financial help to legislation by the end of the year that improve the odds that surgeons those who need it: covers unrestricted abortions for up to Abortion Support Network 12 weeks, or up to 24 weeks if the really do remove every last trace (asn.org.uk); Women Help Women woman’s health is at risk – it has

(womenhelp.org)” Photographs Paul Faith/Julien Hekimian/Getty Images; Shutterstock already been dubbed ‘Savita’s law’. of cancer during surgery” page 110 #IncredibleWomen #OneYearStronger page 111 incredible women Pernilla Sport Lindberg The year’s great triumph-against-the- odds came in April when world number Chloe Kim the women who rocked it 95 golfer PERNILLA LINDBERG (Sweden), 32, won the ANA Inspiration Eighteen-year-old Olympic champion in over world number one, CHLOE KIM (US) stole hearts with her when it mattered ’s Inbee Park, boosting big personality (and even bigger smile), her ranking 61 places to number 34. after she became the youngest woman Lindberg had played 249 previous to win an Olympic medal, Simona tournaments without a victory – a tie nabbing gold for the halfpipe. She has for fifth place in the 2015 US Open being been called “one of the most Marit Halep her only top 10 placing. famous Asian American LINDBERG says “It felt athletes ever”. Bjørgen SIMONA HALEP (Romania) triumphed like too big a dream KIM says “Competing in my against the odds when she landed her first to come true but first Olympics in the country Mirai She may have retired in April this year, Grand Slam title at the French Open, in a it has.” where my parents came from but 38-year-old cross-country skiing victory that seemed impossible after she is pretty insane. I’m feeling Nagasu legend MARIT BJØRGEN (Norway) will had lost three Grand Slam finals in a row. The nothing but excitement.” not soon be forgotten. Scoring a medal 27-year-old is being heralded as a “popular (US), 25, reached the apex in all five of her events at Pyeongchang champion” after years of efort and continued of figure skating when she became the first brought her Olympic total to 15 (eight endurance in the face of defeat. American woman to land a triple axel at the gold, four silver, three bronze), the most HALEP says “I’ve learned that if you don’t Olympics – not to mention the third-ever wins for any athlete, of any gender, give up, you are able to do anything.” from any country to do so. Nagasu failed in Winter Olympics history. to make the Olympic team in 2014, a BJØRGEN says “After [becoming] setback that propelled her to master the a mum [in 2016], these three weeks triple axel, which her coach claims she away from my son have been tough. lands “85 to 95 percent of the time”.

To finish like this is amazing.” NAGASU says “It is definitely history, or — Sport — her story, whatever way you want to say it.” In the most remarkable story of the Pyeongchang Games, 23-year-old TESSA VIRTUE (Canada), 29, became the ESTER LEDECKÁ (Czech Republic) won most decorated figure skater in history after a ski event (the super-G), despite her taking home Olympic gold with partner main focus being on snowboarding. She . The duo enraptured audiences deemed her chances so slim she hadn’t with a Moulin Rouge! medley, dubbed Caroline even put makeup on. In snowboarding she “sexual chemistry on ice” – fueling also won the parallel giant slalom, making rumors that they are a couple Wozniacki Arike her the first woman to take home two of the ice, too. Olympic golds in diferent sports. Alina Zagitova Once world number one – and justly but Ogunbowale LEDECKÁ says “I will think about this tiresomely asked about getting there without moment until the end of my life.” The world expected to see 18-year-old Russian having won a Grand Slam – CAROLINE In one of the most hyped sports moments of the figure skater EVGENIA MEDVEDEVA (above WOZNIACKI (Denmark), 28, broke through year, University of Notre Dame basketball player right) win gold in Pyeongchang, and she was this year, winning the Australian Open in a ARIKE OGUNBOWALE (US), 21, thrilled the on track, scoring a world record 81.61 in the hard-fought match against Simona Halep. crowd with her buzzer-beating, three-point shot, short program of the individual event. But then Few people expected Wozniacki to claim securing her team the NCAA title. This stunner her 15-year-old teammate ALINA ZAGITOVA victory, let alone rise to the top again after followed another winning shot by Ogunbowale (above left) – who completed five triple jumps losing two US Opens and dropping in the ranks. in the penultimate game, prompting headlines in 40 seconds in practice – bettered this with WOZNIACKI says “It’s really nice not to declaring hers the “shot of a lifetime – twice!” 82.92, making her the second-youngest skating have to answer the ‘no Grand Slam’ THEY say “It kind of speaks hope to our young champion ever. The pair competed as part of question ever again. Now, finally, I have the girls. You just need one opportunity to take the Olympic Athletes from team (OAR),

world number one and a Grand Slam title.” advantage of.” WNBA player Tamika Catchings Photographs Getty Images after their home country’s doping ban.

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Monroe Campaigners This year, Emily's List president Unsung Heroines Environmentalist CLAIRE NOUVIAN (France) working to change STEPHANIE SCHRIOCK (US) helped led the successful campaign to set up an EU ban Chief executive ofcer Launched last year by secure a record number of women KARLIE KLOSS on pulse fishing – a practice that uses potentially of National Geographic 18-year-old activist AMIKA to run for US elections – more than supermodel harmful electric currents which disrupt the Global Networks, the status quo GEORGE (UK), alongside 500 for seats in the House and the nominates ecosystem – and was awarded the 2018 23-year-old Sunday Times Senate. Started in 1985 to support Goldman Environmental Prize for her COURTENEY MONROE ELLEN MARY HICKMANN (US), is the brains behind the TV channel’s Style columnist SCARLETT CURTIS (UK) pro-choice Democratic women ongoing eforts to protect the sea and director of professional learning at expansion into scripted content, which has – founder of activism platform The Pink candidates, Emily’s List has grown endangered species. In 2015 a new Turing School of Software and Design already seen it strike gold with Genius and The Protest – #FreePeriods is an initiative to into the nation’s largest seeding, genus of bamboo coral was named Story of God, both of which have been renewed combat period poverty. A recent report support and lobbying resource. after her: Cladarisis nouvianae. for third outings. Making the shift from estimates one in 10 girls in the UK Schriock, a 45-year-old Minnesota native, “Ellen Mary is an unsung hero mediocre “male-skewing reality shows cannot aford sanitary products, with took the reins in 2010 and has been training for her tireless, invaluable work [and] survival shows” to authentic, many missing school every month when hundreds of women interested in to bring computer science Citizen Activists fact-based storytelling has set the Unsung Heroines they’re menstruating because they feel shame government, including 2020 Democratic education to the masses. channel apart from its competitors. or embarrassment. Another study links period presidential front-runner Elizabeth Warren. Something I’ve learned through After two men took upskirt photos of her, MONROE says “My sister and I were NICOLE KIDMAN poverty in young women to higher levels of SCHRIOCK says “Right now, women are less my work with Kode With GINA MARTIN (UK), 26, couldn’t get the raised to believe that we could accomplish actress anxiety and depression when they’re adults. This than 20 percent of Congress and the US is Klossy is how critical it is to not police to listen to her claims of assault. The anything we set our minds to and that there were no nominates spring the campaign pressured the government ranked 99th in the world for women in only provide computer science incident mobilized Martin to petition the rules about gender. It was all sort of irrelevant. If to secure £1.5million to tackle period poverty. government... Fortunately, we’re changing education to students, but to the government to #StopSkirtingTheIssue, WEKOWEU you set your mind to something, you could achieve “These are girls my age, and that with more than 18,000 women since teachers themselves. Ellen with the hope of making upskirt photos (AKOLE) TSUHAH GEORGE says it, and I take that with me wherever I go.” as young as nine or 10 years old, who are election day reaching out to Emily’s List for Mary does exactly that – illegal under the 2003 Sexual Ofences Act. activist literally missing out on their education help running for ofce.” working directly with teachers Another flash activist, ELIN ERSSON because they can’t aford sanitary Fighting against the tidal wave to ensure they have the skills to (Sweden), 21, ran a Facebook Live stream on MONROE says “From a rural, farming, protection – some of them were using toilet of despondency after Trump was teach code and that their a flight from Gothenburg (to Istanbul) to indigenous community in paper, newspaper, socks, anything they elected, nonprofit, nonpartisan classrooms are engaging and protest the deportation of an “My sister and the mountainous state of could find, instead of pads or tampons.” VoteRunLead was founded by inclusive, particularly for onboard Afghan asylum Nagaland in northeast India, ERIN VILARDI (US) to train students from diverse seeker. Ersson refused to sit Wekoweu is the first women to run for ofce. With backgrounds. A good teacher unless he was taken of the I were raised to generation of women in her Riders for Inclusion diverse representation as has the power to change a plane – which he eventually

— Women of Action — Action of Women — family to get an education. In its watchword, it has already student’s life, and thanks to was, along with Ersson. — Action of Women — believe that we her part of the world, women “I have two words for you: schooled over 25,000 women. Ellen Mary, there will be more have been excluded from inclusion rider,” said Frances VILARDI says “I have long believed that and more teachers making an could accomplish decision-making for centuries McDormand at the end of her the world would be a better place impact in STEM education.” and lack recognition because Oscar acceptance speech. It if more women were in power.” they do not own land. Armed was a blazing endorsement of anything” with her education, Wekoweu a legal template co-authored has become a voice for the by founder of the Annenberg voiceless. Working with NEN, Inclusion Initiative at the Beatrice Fihn a women’s rights organization University of Southern Tina Tchen supported by UN Women, her California DR STACY SMITH In a year overshadowed by nuclear posturing between focus is on building awareness (US), lawyer KALPANA North Korea and the US, it was gratifying to see activist When Alessia Cara was the only woman to win of the rights of rural women, KOTAGAL (US) 40, and BEATRICE FIHN (Sweden) recognized last December a major Grammy award in 2018, it resulted in on land rights, on inclusion in producer/actress FANSHEN with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work as head MARTIN says widespread criticism of the Recording Academy, politics, and creating change. COX DiGIOVANNI (US), 48, which is of the International Campaign to Abolish the organization that oversees the awards, leading Equal wages and separate making waves in Hollywood. Nuclear Weapons. In pursuing the campaign’s to the formation this spring of a new task force public toilets for women are The rider enables directors goal to see the nigh on 15,000 nuclear warheads “A woman's body for inclusion and diversity, led by lawyer TINA just two of the many victories and stars to add a clause currently in existence destroyed, the 36-year- TCHEN (US). A former assistant to President she has fought hard to win." to their contract – for old Gothenburg native has been instrumental in is no one's property Obama and chief of staf to Michelle Obama, example that women, people bringing together 468 partner organizations and Tchen, 62, is determined to create better of color or from the LGBTQ+ 101 countries in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition opportunities for women in the industry, community be considered for of Nuclear Weapons, which will become law if 50 but their own, and co-leading the Time’s Up Legal Defense roles or crew – to ensure diversity countries sign up to it. Fihn jointly accepted the award Fund and advising companies on gender of-screen and on, so “[the roles in the with Hiroshima bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow. it's time the law equality and diversity in her position as film] reflect the world in which we FIHN says “Nuclear bombs are a very old-fashioned

partner with firm Buckley Sandler. actually live,” says Smith. Brown; Asahi Shimbun/Graham Denholm/Astrid Stawiarz/Steve Granitz/Patrick Kovarik/Getty Images Photographs Sophia Spring; UN Women/Ryan weapon … you can’t fight terrorism with a nuclear bomb.” recognised this”

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Cameron Russell Greta (US) stepped up her reputation as the It-girl In the wake of revelations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Groundbreakers Gerwig of indie film when her first solo Weinstein last October, 31-year-old model CAMERON RUSSELL (US) writer-director venture, Lady took aim against sexual harassment within the fashion industry by Bird, picked up five Oscar nominations, encouraging models to share their experiences of abuse on Instagram, including best director, best original using #MyJobShouldNotIncludeAbuse. A lead voice of Models Mafia, a screenplay and best picture. Thirty-five- community fighting to affect change in fashion, the Columbia graduate’s year-old Gerwig is only the fifth woman to Instagram feed has since become a powerful record of abuse and led to Rachel Stella nab a director nomination in 90 years, and luxury giants LVMH and drawing up charters to safeguard the the only woman ever to be nominated for wellbeing of models. Here, in an exclusive letter for PORTER, Russell Morrison McCartney her debut feature. Just as groundbreaking writes to the fashion industry about moving forward responsibly. was the film’s subject matter, as “one of RACHEL MORRISON (US), It’s been a big year for few best picture nominees to take a teenage 40, proved the power of STELLA MCCARTNEY girl’s interior life seriously,” says Gerwig. the female gaze when she became (UK), who took back full Next up, Gerwig’s adaptation of Little the first woman to be nominated for the control of her company, after buying Women: and Timothée cinematography Oscar for her work on out Kering’s 50 percent Chalamet star, with Meryl Streep Dear friends in fashion, the Dee Rees-directed, Mississippi stake. But it’s in her ongoing confirmed to play Aunt March. For as long as I’ve been a model, the highest praise has been, “she’ll do anything”. Delta period drama Mudbound. commitment to sustainable GERWIG says “I remember… when Sofia Making a name for herself as the sharp fashion that the 47-year-old Coppola was nominated for best director Last November, the worst of what this means came to light. I posted an anonymous story eye behind director Ryan continues to break ground, and won best screenplay and what that of sexual harassment that a friend and fellow model sent me on Instagram and, within Coogler’s action blockbuster notably partnering with meant to me, as if possibilities were hours, hundreds more stories poured into my inbox. Along with dozens of other women in the Black Panther (she also worked Parley for the Oceans expanded because of it. I genuinely hope industry, I spent the next 48 hours helping to make them public. This was a snapshot of the on his Fruitvale Station), the to create sneakers from that what this means to women of all systemic harassment and abuse that takes place when “she’ll do anything” is a presumption Massachusetts native took Unsung Heroines recycled ocean plastic, ages [is that they] look at this and think, and a pressure to never say no. home a slew of awards and and biotech company ‘I want to go make my movie.’” CHIMAMANDA “She’ll do anything” is an isolating expectation on set, but it doesn’t take much nominations for Mudbound BOLT Threads, which THEY say “Seeing [Greta] go, ‘I did it and NGOZI ADICHIE research to realize that it’s not just a high-fashion catchphrase, rather an ideology – she is the first woman develops fabric from I can do it,’ made me think, ‘Maybe I can to win the New York Film author proteins found in nature. do it as well.’” Saoirse Ronan produced by an industry that relies on and to maintain a large disposable Critics Circle Award for best nominates workforce. Eighty percent of the people working in the clothing industry are women, RUSSELL says cinematographer – and has mostly of color, but women and people of color are almost never in charge. And, no matter SHANNON CRAIG brought attention to the lack of nurse/clinical coordinator which city we’re talking about – New York, , Milan, Dhaka, Phnom Penh – the majority — Groundbreakers — female talent in this notoriously at DaVita, Baltimore “We need a of these women do not make a living wage. “She’ll do anything” is often because she doesn’t male-dominated field. have a choice, at least not if she wants the job. According to one estimate, one in seven women MORRISON says “If we “Shannon has an uncommon way to begin employed in the formal economy work in the fashion supply chain. can break down this selflessness that is all the This is not a #MeToo moment. Women have always known the violent consequences of stronghold, then we can more inspiring because it break down another.” doesn’t even recognize itself. . Just as black lives have always mattered. And people of color have been breaking the For her birthday one year, she surviving and finding ways to thrive within economic and political systems built on their gave herself a gift: to volunteer silence while for centuries. Without seeing how the flaws in our own workplaces exist inside a at a soup kitchen. She doesn’t larger picture, we doom ourselves to continue these brutal legacies. We start to evolve by Hu have much and yet gives so remaining changing the part of the system we can touch, getting rid of “she’ll do anything” and much. She grew up in a instead committing to holding each other in dignity, recognizing the wisdom and power of Weiwei deprived area of Baltimore those who have always known these truths, and finding fresh ways to work together across and is engaged as a community protected... gender, race, class, borders, and difference – as equals. In one of the activist, deeply committed to year’s great success stories, making it a better place. She Dwelling in the critical is hard because I’m aware I have benefited from my former journalist HU WEIWEI is also one of the funniest GERWIG says We are talking participation in fashion in more ways than one. And because I know so intimately all the (China), 36, co-founder of people I know; her humor is, people doing good work – the creative, committed, thoughtful people who exist throughout Mobike, the world’s first by turns, self-efacing, about a culture this industry. But instead of looking away, I remind myself that these immense challenges bike-sharing app, sold the astringent and joyful.” “I genuinely hope that... can cause me to despair or they can speak to the enormous potential for those of us willing company in a deal that valued of exploitation to work another way. the start-up at $3.4bn, before women of all ages look taking over as CEO. and it must stop” THEY say “The internet has never seen a phenomenon like this.” at this and think,‘I want Ben Harburg, Magic Stone

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The year began with good news. In January, Netflix’s vice-president of Comedian TIFFANY HADDISH (US), 38, had a boundary-breaking year thanks to the eforts of – among others – RÓSA original documentary and as the first black woman comedian to host , as well as GUÐRÚN ERLINGSDÓTTIR (Iceland), 48, head comedy programming, LISA the MTV Movie & TV Awards, where she won best comedic performance of the equality unit at Iceland’s welfare ministry, NISHIMURA (US), 47, is the for her show-stealing turn in 2017’s Girls Trip. The South Central LA Iceland became the first country in the world to woman behind some of its native – who was called “the funniest person alive right now” by Vanity make it illegal to pay women less than men for the biggest hits, from Emmy- Fair – has been vocal about her difcult upbringing, including her mother’s same work, laying the burden to prove pay equality on Icelandic companies. When, in winner Making a Murderer to mental-health issues, how it was to grow up in foster care and sleeping in the same month, Grey’s Anatomy star ELLEN POMPEO (US), 48, was revealed to be Hannah Gadsby’s comedy special, Nanette. her car as a budding comedian in her twenties. This fall, she is set to star the highest-paid actress on a television drama, earning $20 million a year, she talked She was also the power exec behind sports in the politically charged Thanksgiving comedy, The Oath, and in writer about asking for what she deserved (on showrunner Shonda Rhimes’s advice) – a doping doc Icarus, which landed and director Tyler Perry’s Nobody’s Fool. Here, in an exclusive letter for philosophy echoed by the BBC’s former China editor, CARRIE GRACIE (UK), 56, Netflix its first feature Oscar. Her PORTER, Haddish writes a letter to her younger, struggling, clueless self. who resigned in January after learning she was being paid less than the equivalent colleague and VP of global original editors in other regions. In June, she reached an equal-pay deal with the BBC, content CINDY HOLLAND (US), 49, pledging to donate her back-pay funds to the Fawcett Society, which has been leading Netflix’s lobbies for gender equality. $8bn spend on content, with new seasons of The Crown and Stranger Things; while Dear Tiffnicity* (aged 18) Unsung Heroines the channel has announced Anok Yai game-changing deals with We made it, bitch :) Honestly, I am so proud of you. I know right now you are thinking, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI showrunners “Why am I living this life? Why am I even here on this planet?” Well, girl, it all pays In a year of sizeable shifts on artistic director at Dior Shonda Rhimes, off in the long run. There’s a lot of ups and downs, a lot of joy and pain. All I’ve got diversity in fashion, 20-year-old nominates Ryan Murphy, to say is: stay focused, stay focused, stay focused. You knew what the goal was from (US), stood out as the Jenji Kohan, ANOK YAI KARISHMA SWALI day one… and girl, we’re gonna get there. poster girl for a new set of beauty as well as managing director at Chanakya But a bit of advice: by the time you turn 21, you’re going to be working a job that standards – as a darker-skinned the Obamas. you’re really not going to like – so GET BACK ON STAGE. Don’t stop, no matter what. black model – when she was named Estée Lauder’s newest “Based in Mumbai and You will get married and it’s going to be a great learning experience, but get out of global ambassador, just months specializing in hand Evelyn there as soon as you can. Because as soon as we get out, we make it. after making history as the first embroidery, Karishma has Also, when you’re sleeping in your car, make sure you bring some extra blankets, — Groundbreakers — Groundbreakers —

black model to open a Prada used her family-run Telfer because it is cold. runway show since Naomi enterprise as a platform to One last thing – I want you to start looking in the mirror every day. Don’t worry Campbell more than 20 years ago. empower women in India. Professor EVELYN about what our auntie says about looking in a mirror making you vain. You will never YAI says “Growing up, I looked up She established a group of 60 TELFER (UK), 58, heads HADDISH says to Naomi Campbell and Grace women – with the aim to be up the Edinburgh be vain. You’re too humble. Look in the mirror every day and start telling yourself Jones, but I needed more than just 1,000 by 2020 – who are University team that you love and approve of yourself. Once we start doing that, everything changes. two people. Everywhere I looked, learning how to weave and that announced So, start now and we can change it quicker. “Look in the I saw people praising lighter-skin embroider. Chanakya also they had Any questions? people and mocking those with started a women-only facility, successfully dark skin. Now that I have this which gives the women grown the first mirror every platform, I can hopefully be the autonomy over their work fully formed person I wanted to look up to. and lives. Providing them human egg in a lab in day and start The industry is changing. It’s with a comfortable, serene February. This is a huge really slow, but it is changing.” and safe environment, the step towards a greater telling yourself factory transmits and teaches understanding of embryo YAI says the old techniques and development and IVF – PS. We’re going to have so many cool friends when we get older. I would tell you who skills, which are on the helping infertile women or that you love they are but I don’t want you to start writing letters to them now and messing that up. verge of disappearing, those whose fertility is at “I hope to be an inspiration to a new generation.” risk due to health issues or PPS. Don’t worry about kids, because guess what? More than 20 years later, we don’t and approve invasive treatments such have any. I’ll write another letter to us, 10 years from now, and if we don’t have any to young girls and women, as chemotherapy. While it kids by then, we’re gonna adopt. of yourself” could be years before the PPPS. Can you not drink so much after comedy shows? We really need our rest. eggs harvested from this process I am so tired right now. and encourage them to are deemed safe, the advancement will have a significant impact on *Tifany’s name for herself, because her feel undeniably beautiful” current fertility processes. Saint/August; Aaron Smith/Netfix; Shutterstock; John Lamparski; Photographs Estée Lauder; Warwick Images Emma McIntyre/Francois Guillot/Chirag Wakaskar/Getty uncle used to say she was full of tenacity.

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The First, Greatest (US) defied Show naysayers at the Colorado Desert music festival in April, twerking while pregnant in an explosive 30-minute set. Then BEYONCÉ (US) delivered a near two-hour set with some 100 dancers, her sister Solange, husband Jay-Z and former members of Destiny’s Child joining her, in a performance that was roundly hailed as “historic”. It was certainly euphoric, watched simultaneously by 498,000 global viewers on live stream, making it the most-viewed music festival on YouTube. CARDI B says (of twerking onstage) “And that’s how I got pregnant, y’all! Just like that.” THEY say (of Beyoncé) “There’s not likely to be a more meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radical performance by an American musician this year, or any year soon.” Jon Caramanica, The New York Times

BEYONCÉ says “Coachella, thank you for allowing me to be the first black woman to headline.

Ain’t that ’bout a bitch?” Photograph Vantagenews.com page 122 #IncredibleWomen