Emma Watson And Her Activism

Thank you. Two years ago I launched a campaign called HeforShe at the U.N. in New York. I was very nervous before that speech; the nerves were followed by a tremendous high immediately afterwards and a crashing low a few days after that.

My best hopes and my worst fears were confirmed all at once. I had opened Pandora's Box to a standing ovation and almost simultaneously a level of critique I had never experienced in my life and the beginning of what would become a series of threats. The last two years have been a baptism of fire to say the least, where I learnt just how little I know, and also how much.

It was my scary first step as an activist: a word I never imagined that I would use to describe myself. So reading the applications of activists who applied here for One Young World scholarships was surprising to me. Here I was reading the stories of people from nearly 200 different countries from around the world with experiences that I couldn't even imagine. I mean, they were so out of this world to me.

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And yet their notes looked like my notes. The same themes emerged over and over and over again. There was so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with. Because the truth is, it had never been about being an activist; it was about the choice to make myself visible and the choices that you made to do that too.

Apart from the significant progress the world has made in the cause for equality, the best thing about the last two years has been this. Finding people from such disparate experiences and communities, that I found that I have something in common with. This is a community of artists, spiritual teachers, dreamers, thinkers, doers, who work together and support each other.

For the first time in my life, I found my sisterhood; a brotherhood—whatever, however you want to describe it—I found my tribe.

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My hope for you, while you are here, is that you will find some of your tribe too. I really needed mine.

Bobby Kennedy, when he was senator for New York, said: Each time a man or woman stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance. That's what we are doing.

We, the entire spectrum of the feminist movement, are building an unstoppable current, for which we need ripples of hope from every age, race, ability, walk of life, every human experience. I feel gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss. And actually, if anything, it is more important, because it intersects with every single other issue that we face.

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We all have feminine and masculine energies within us. And both forces need to be lifted up, respected. We need to work together in order to make the world go round. Each of you are here at One Young World because you do something important. And it is so exciting to see you all come together in one room, because One Young World isn't about saying what I, each of us individually, can do, but what we can do, working together, supporting and listening to each other.

It's in that spirit that I am delighted to introduce nine activists who are the first recipients of a One Young World scholarship that I am very honored to have in my name; they are working to secure real progress towards a gender equal world, and I hope their stories will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.

In a moment I am going to ask them to come onto the stage, but before I do, I want to offer a few statements of my own that I've struggled with, and continue to struggle with on a daily basis, but that I have found inspiring. I want to ask you to take a moment—you can keep your eyes closed, or keep them open—and ask yourself if these have any truth for you in them:

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These seven statements scare the absolute shit out of me. But I know that they are at the crux of it all. At the end of the day, and when all is said and done, I know that these are the ways that I want to have lived my life.

I know that each of you will have probably encountered one of these statements in the last 48 hours and if you have, thank you for being here. I appreciate it. It is truly an honor to be here with you all.

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The GOP hopes to mount a challenge to Willis in 2024, based not on just political grievance but on her office's performance, they said.Emma Watson may have taken a one-year hiatus from acting, but she has a very, very good reason for doing so: she's focusing on other projects, notably her activism and role as a Goodwill ambassador for the UN. Yesterday, in honor of International Women's Day, she joined first lady of New York City Chirlane McCray, UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and actor Forest Whitaker on stage at a press conference to kick off the HeForShe arts week that's presently taking place in New York City. And in her eloquent speech, she discussed why acting and activism aren't so separate after all.

She quoted the great poet Maya Angelou's famous words: 'I learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel, ' and added that making people feel things is one of the reasons that I am an actress, it's why I love what I do. It's what the arts do: if it's done well, they make you feel.

Emma also explained that one of the aims of HeForShe, is, ultimately, to build a global community with people from all walks of life and all genders to create a new normal, and societies of equality. Study after study shows us that logic and value of gender equality in commerce, politics, peace-building, the list is infinite. But we have to do more than help people see the logic in their minds. It’s also about making them feel it in their bones. Viscerally, emotionally. This is what changes us, this is what makes us act.

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She also discussed the ways sexism has affected her differently than it has her male peers, citing one particularly harrowing incident that occurred on her 18th birthday:

I came out of my 18th birthday party and photographers laid down on the pavement and took photographs up my skirt, which were then published on the front of the English tabloids the next morning. If they had published the photographs 24 hours earlier, she added, they would have been illegal — but because I had just turned 18, they were legal. I think that’s just one example of how my transition to womanhood was dealt very differently by the tabloid press than it was for my male colleagues.

It's a frustrating and invasive practice to be victim to, and one that goes far deeper than simple celebrity. As such, it makes sense that Emma was called to act and speak out against misogyny, and to try to unite people of all genders in a bigger push toward feminism. We'll miss her on the big screen, but rest assured: she's not going anywhere, and she's doing her part to help make the world a much more equal place.

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“I saw [the finale] as an opportunity for an 18-year-old to have a little bit of a tantrum, ” Briney says with a half-mischievous smile.SEATTLE — Emma Watson is taking a year hiatus from acting to focus on women’s activism and promote gender equality across the globe.

Watson spoke with feminist writer Bell Hooks, author of ‘Feminism is for Everybody’ in a recent interview for Paper magazine. During the conversation she revealed she plans to spend the upcoming year focusing on her work as the U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador and her own personal development.

“I want to listen to as many different women in the world as I can, ” Watson said in the interview. “That’s something that I’ve been doing on my own, through the U.N., the HeForShe campaign and my work generally.”

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Emma Watson has been involved with women’s activism for several years. The successful actress was appointed to the U.N. Women’s advocacy position in July 2014, and has since focused her efforts on promoting the organization’s HeForShe campaign, which advocates for gender equality across the globe.

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