FEARLESS FEMME FRIDAYS: 5 BADASS WOMEN IN THE NEWS

Happy Friday, vinas! Another week, another batch of ladies to celebrate!

OLIVIA WILDE

It’s officially the month of Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut! Her film, Booksmart, starring Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, is out on May 24th. It’s all about two best friends having one wild night before their senior year of high school ends, and it looks amazing. Wilde directed the film, and we’re so excited to see more female filmmakers shine! Watch the trailer here.

GINA MARTIN

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I DIE DO YOU DIE? #BETHECHANGE IS SALMON, FOREST GREEN, GOLD GOODNESS. 🍑💚🌟 I'm SO excited to be able to finally show you your toolkit. Write in it! Dog ear the pages! Read it cover to cover! dip in and out!Maybe you'll only need two chapters for what you're doing right now? Maybe you'll read it cover to cover before you finally feel like you can act. However you use it, there's one thing you can know for sure: it's yours. 🤗 There's a reason I look like the smuggest, happiest human in this photo. I love this book and I love this cover! Thank you @bekkigoo and @studio_of_ideas for bringing #BETHECHANGE to life! 🌟🌟🌟 Pre-order this beauty through the link in my bio 👆🏼

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Gina Martin is an amazing UK-based activist who recently provoked change into making “upskirting” (the act of taking photos up someone’s skirt) a criminal offense. Martin is devoting her time to helping end abuse against women and minorities, and we applaud her.

AMIKA GEORGE

When she was seventeen, Amika George founded a campaign to raise awareness to the amount of people who have to miss school because of their periods, called #FreePeriods. Anyone with a period knows that sanitary products are expensive — way more expensive than they need to be. Thanks to George and her mission, hospitals in England will provide free tampons and pads to menstruating people who need or ask for them!

ERICA MALUNGUINHO

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#extemporanes #malunga

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The story of Erica Malunguinho is a pretty incredible one: she is the first trans woman to ever hold a state representative position in Sao Paulo, Brazil! She wants to use her position to fight for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, and serves as a huge inspiration for those who hope to provoke change.

TARANA BURKE

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Tune in tonight to watch @vh1 Trailblazers where @ava @speakerpelosi @therealmargaretatwood and myself are honored on #internationalwomensday 💕 #Repost @metoomvmt ・・・ “I hope there is some young, Black, queer, or trans kid who has better and brighter ideas for how to end sexual violence, for whom my presence is blazing a trail right now. And I hope me getting this kind of visibility means that we’re moving closer to a world that not just believes survivors, but provides resources to investigate these claims,” Burke said. “I hope we’re moving closer to a world that has deep empathy for those of us that have suffered the indignity and inhumanity of sexual violence, and that we have a shared desire to rid the world of it.” – ‘me too.’ founder @taranajaneen accepts a @vh1 #trailblazerhonors award, tomorrow night, 3/8 at 9/8c on VH1 • • • • 📸 by @ramonarosales #metoo #endsexualviolence #believesurvivors

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Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, was featured on the TIME 100 list with a profile by Gabrielle Union. In the past decade, Burke has dedicated huge amounts of time and energy to activism for sexual assault, particularly for Black survivors of sexual assault. It’s important to remember her name and mission when discusses Me Too, because not only is she the original founder, she brings awareness to uniquely Black experiences.

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