Emma Watson was a moderator for the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Parity Report Launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. You can watch the full launch presentation and download the report from HeForShe.
Emma with Jakob Trollback, Paul Polman, Adam Bain, Hannah Godefa and Freida Pinto.
Proof that sexism still exists in the real world…:( The X-Files tried to pay half to Gillian Anderson “Scully” what they offered David Duchovny “Mulder” for the revival. At first she thought it was a joke…then sadly realized they were serious according to “The Daily Beast”. Also according to “Sweatpants and Coffee” and “The Daily Telegraph” toy makers were instructed to leave out Rey toys and to make more Kylo Ren because boys wouldn’t want to play with a toy that was a girl ???? Now Rey toys are flying off the shelves and there is not enough supply to meet the demand and Kylo Ren toys are moving slow…serves them right for being so bias.
Nice Photos,Emma looks beautiful as always.
Nice,my how Emma has grown.! Love her accent still,great pics of her. Ya,keep going Emma. Weird her today is my tomorrow,just like a bunch of my fav ppl.!
Title to newsletter: Women in Series: show challenges the audience to reflect on the figure of “standard woman”
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The TV series Women in Series breaks stereotypes and challenges the audience to demystify the figure of “standard woman”
São Paulo, December 17th, 2015 − the misfortunes and victories of four breathtaking characters set wide open the thorny reality of thousands of Brazilian women in the XXI century. Besides their own dilemmas, as of any other person living nowadays − relationships, work issues, financial problems − these women still find themselves faced with prejudice, physical and psychological violence, and have their rights denied on a daily basis.
Letícia, trans and black woman, decides to become a mother and is haunted by the ghost of discrimination and public judgement. She will share, with the audience, her challenges involving her relationship with Domênico – boyfriend, also transsexual – and the real problems faced during the transition process many transsexuals currently go trough. The couple is highlighted in the series, because it represents one of the great taboos of our society today. In addition to approaching important issues like the side effects of hormone treatment, Letícia plays a key role in the history of other women, as Nathalia, a homosexual and rebellious girl who takes refuge in drugs.
The project Women in Series opens the way for a delicate area and, therefore, uncovered by other works of fiction. The choice of a transsexual couple in the early stage of change, in which the actors still have many features of their gender of birth, is a boldness that the series aims openly. The partnership with actress Ana Victoria − Letícia, in the series − who was willing to reveal all stages of her transition on camera, becomes a provocative differential to an audience still very accustomed to stereotypes and norms. “The society acts as if trans people sprout from the ground ‘ready’. Transition is a slow and difficult process, and we fit it in everyday life. No one enters a cave and comes out with another body; it changes slowly as you take the crowded train, pay the bills, study…” reflects Ana Victoria. So Women in Series stands out as the first Brazilian audiovisual work to address the discussion of genres using an inclusive list, which places its actors in the roles they play in their real lives.
The title of the series comes as a tease. According to Maitê Sanchez, director, the name’s choice is a clear irony to the production of tools as happens in factories. “It is critical to the standardization of the female figure we see in commercial cinema, TV and advertising, which creates ideal models of behavior and aesthetic, psychological prisons that only allow the perpetuation of prejudice and exclusion,” she concludes. Maitê also directed the short film Irene, winner of the Best Film award at the Second University Film Festival of Bahia.
Alongside Renata Freire, executive producer of the series, Maitê conceived the project five years ago and has been working in the characters’ creation since the end of 2014. Renata talks about the importance of works that address issues that are not much discussed currently, as transsexuality. “It would be easy if we used a trans woman completely transformed, with female appearance. Having the courage to show the transition from the start is a milestone. And this is virtually inaccessible to man and transgender woman space. There is no such inclusion in the audiovisual today. The TV series’ option is yet another affirmation of our role to evade regulation of the feminine, and especially transsexual, universe. Although it is fiction, the stories are real.”
The role of women in a sexist society is also presented by the character Claudia, a journalist who dares to report abuse cases, similar to the ones she suffered in an unhealthy relationship, and often ends in conflict with her editor.
But contrary to what one might imagine, Women in Series is not a work dedicated exclusively to the female audience. The purpose of the series is to provoke discussion and reflection on human dramas, as it seeks dialogue with people of different genders and social classes. Without moral pretensions, it aims to bring to the audience knowledge about the typological diversity of women in their media.
Another character who stands out among so many complex stories is Rebecca, a plus size model explored by her boyfriend in sexy shows via webcam, victim of physical and verbal attacks that she tries to hide at any cost from their friends and acquaintances.
The urgent need to include these issues in the social agenda and in Brazilian politics is revealed in statistical numbers that demonstrate the limitations of women’s achievements in recent years. On one hand, you can highlight the 82 years of the conquest of the right to vote, and on the other, the fact that women add up to only 10% of the seats in the Brazilian congress. Another alarming fact refers to the sexual abuse and violence: every two minutes, five women are assaulted in Brazil, according to research from Perseus Abramo Foundation (not all women present complaint in police stations, and many of the ones that do, ends up withdrawing the complaint).
So Women in Series chooses to distance itself from a Hollywood vision that creates heroes, and commitment to public identification through the humanity of the characters, treating them in their conflicts, uncertainties and mistakes, without forgetting their achievements and dreams.
Another distinguishing feature of the work is its goal to cross the boundaries of fiction and foster changes in real life, with initiatives published in Women in Series website, that will become a channel of discussion and dissemination of expanding sources of feminine ideals. The idea is to inspire and promote action on several fronts, such as the struggle for spaces for theather workshops for transsexuals, job opportunities and even selling products with funds donated to women and transvestites at risky situations.
Women in Series comes amid this scenario of prejudice and trivialization with the proposal to allow their viewers to immerse themselves in the complexity and diversity of Brazilian women.
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