'When they go low, we go stronger, and we are more determined than ever to report the facts,' said Gayle King, at the 2019 Women’s Media Center awards.
campaign, which went viral after their open letter signed by over 200 Latinx celebrities and activists sent a message of solidarity following the El Paso and Gilroy mass shootings and ICE raids earlier this year. In her speech, Longoria urged us all to take responsibility for the lack of inclusivity in the media. “The media and the entertainment communities fail to lift up our voices,” she said. “We must all take responsibility for the ‘othering’ of the Latinx community.
When I asked Flanders her views on why it’s important to have more women’s voices in media, she expressed to me, “We sound an alarm. We connect people with each other. We say if in commercial media the job is to deliver the people to the advertisers, I think in the independent media, our job is to deliver the people to each other. So I think in these times, we have to give people some sense of how they can make a difference in the world.
Also honored at the Women’s Media Awards were artist, activist, and philanthropist Lauren Embrey; MIT scientist and activist Joy Buolamwini, who uncovered gender and racial bias in artificial intelligence; Dior’s first female artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri; and comedian, actress, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid. Learn more atWhat Will It Take to Make a Woman President?
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