So to my sisters, trans and sis to my siblings to all my people across the spectrum, we love you and we won’t let anybody convince us that you’re not worth that. And our trans friends need our love more than ever right now, and they always deserve it. My cis sisters, I’m here to tell you that holding trans woman back actually does not make us anymore free.Īnd just because someone else identifies as a woman that does not erase your rights, when another marginalized group wins, we actually all win. So I wanna take just a second to remind everybody that we control this discourse and that womanhood, like every other kind of identity, is not a zero sum game. That cultural backlash means real, physical, psychological, economic, and emotional consequences for trans and non-binary people. But y’all, this whole episode taps into a backlash that we’re seeing against trans people that is very real. Listen, I love anything that makes me feel good, and everybody should have that feeling. I’m gonna have to go fill up my shopping cart. Now Ulta has come forward in defense of this iconic episode, and the folks who started in it saying that they believe that quote, beauty is for everyone. But in the following days, there were calls to just straight up boycotts the company. Ugh, I can’t even keep up with the bullshit. Quote, misogynist and they took offense at Dylan’s desire to someday become a mother and said the whole thing was woman facing, which they say is like blackface, where someone pretends to be a woman but isn’t. Sadly, unsurprisingly, many users complain that for a trans woman to talk about girlhood was. And yeah, the trolls were a blaze in the comment section. Ulta Podcast: You know, I think somebody asking you describe your signature look question, might say to you like, No, but actually, like which one? And I would never ask you that because that’s the beautiful thing about your expression, is it changes.īrittany: Now Ulta put a clip of the video up on Twitter, like all of us who host podcasts do. Now, both of them came together to talk about self-expression, identities, and obviously getting glam, right. This particular episode featured an interview with actress, comedian, and overall TikTok legend Dylan Mulvaney, who also happens to be a trans woman and Dylan joined a conversation with David Lopez, a gender fluid, Latinx celebrity hair stylist. Last Thursday, the chain cosmetic supply store, Ulta released an episode of its biweekly podcast called The Beauty Of. So if you saw the words Ulta Boycott trending this week, here is why. What do we owe the people who said MeToo? What do we owe the communities where these, where sexual violence is happening?īrittany: That’s coming up, but first it’s the news.Īnd we are gonna start in the world of beauty. Tarana Burke: We’re going beyond the hashtag to look at what happens after you say MeToo. On the show today, we’ll be honoring the five year anniversary of the MeToo hashtag with playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, organizer Monica Ramirez, and the movement’s very own founder Tarana Burke. It changed me in ways that I am still discovering and it is such an immense privilege to be discovering it with all of you. I have watched you do the hardest thing that you have ever done and just shine at it.īrittany: This year has been one of the hardest of my entire life. Reginald Cunningham: Yeah, you have been amazing in this whole journey, like I just wanna make sure and honor that. Johnson shared just what it’s like to have the second most banned book in America.Īnd of course this season I got real, real personal when the love of my life and I talked about the love of our lives, the harrowing birth of our sweet, sweet Baby M. Willow Eagleton walked us through what it’s like to be a trans girl in 2022 and George M. Michelle Colón gave us insight on the last days of Roe v. We spoke to Maria Teresa Kumar on the voting rights fight of our lifetime. And we talked to the hopeful next governor of Texas, Beto O’Rourke on exactly what the F is going on down in Texas. Student loan forgiveness with Senator Elizabeth Warren, something that we actually saw some traction on this year, y’all. And we talked sports and racism with Jemele Hill and Cari Champion. Uché Blackstock on how to fight pandemic fatigue. Here on the show, we opened the season with voices like Dr. In some ways this year felt like 2022 volume three since we entered and will end this year still in a pandemic. This season, really this whole year, has been a ride, child. I mean, at least I hope that’s what you all are thinking. I’m gonna be sad to leave y’all for a while, too. We have finally arrived at the final episode of the season. Please note: This transcript has been automatically generated.īrittany Packnett Cunningham: Hey y’all, it’s Brittany. “Every Hashtag is a Human Being”: Honoring the Five-Year Anniversary of #MeToo
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