IG Emma Watson

Happy 3rd Birthday @oursharedshelf! Thank you to everyone involved - you give me so much joy! 💖💖💖 xx

💫 One of the most memorable moments of TIME’S UP in the UK for me has been the launch of the Justice and Equality Fund (the UK’s version of the Legal Defence Fund), which aims to support women who have experienced harassment and abuse, improve accountability, and prevent future abuses from occurring. 💸 The JEF offers much-needed funds to existing expert services and to grassroots activism. 🌱 Many people don’t realise that very basic services which protect and care for women in the UK are under threat, and it’s incredible the difference the fund has made in a short space of time. 🌷
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The Justice and Equality Fund (JEF) has already resourced the vital work of organisations like 💪🏾💗London Black Women's Project, who provide specialist support to women of colour and migrant survivors of abuse, and 👩🏻‍⚖️ Rights of Women, who will resource a free and confidential helpline led by women lawyers offering legal advice to women experiencing sexual harassment. ☎️❤️ The JEF has also supported keeping the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre for England and Wales helpline open and is resourcing the first rape crisis service provision in Northern Ireland in 12 years. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⭐️ I hope that more people will be inspired by the #TIMESUP anniversary to give at home here in the UK, so the Justice and Equality Fund can reach even more under-resourced organisations and campaign groups in 2019.
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✨ To donate go to uk.gofundme.com/Justice-and-Equality-Fund ✨

💐 Happy 2019 💐

Thank you to everyone who has been part of TIME'S UP over the past year. 💗 From my sisters in the film industry to the activists and campaigners around the world who have supported us, I've been so inspired by the way people have reached out to each other, shared experiences and advice, and organised together as part of this movement for change. 🌍 Gender equality can only become a reality if we harness the transformative power of solidarity across professions and across borders.
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There’s still a long way to go, but the achievements so far make me optimistic for a fairer future. 2018 was just the beginning. 💪🏻
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🎉 See link in bio for some reflections on the journey of Time’s Up that I shared with @cnn.

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🎥❤️ @littlewomenofficial

“I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.” - Louisa May Alcott, @littlewomenofficial ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
💗 From left: Meg March, Greta Gerwig (director), Jo March, Amy March, Beth March and Laurie (Theodore Laurence).

#FrancescaWoodman ♡📷♡

@carterbowman1 🧡

@carterbowman1 💛

🌴🤡 Tom’s @origin_series is out on 14th November. Congrats dear friend. #TFToleratingmysubparskatingskillssince1999.

✔🗳 In my home country, I am a voter. All my admiration and thanks to those of you voting in the USA today.
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💙❤ Midterms matter. ❤💙 Here's a reminder why from my friends and colleagues who've been organising with communities to embolden and inform USA voters.
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✊🏻💐 Congratulations to @amikageorge and Lisa Ranran Hu on being honoured for your work by @teenvogue #21Under21 2018!
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💛 Amika started the @freeperiods movement at 18 to end #periodpoverty in the UK.
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💛 At 18, Lisa Ranran Hu, a self-taught filmmaker, directed “Escape,” a film following the journey of a transgender teenager in China.
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💐 tinyurl.com/TeenVogue21Under21 💐 for Teen Vogue’s full list of girls and femmes changing the world 🧡

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@lornasimpson 🖼🖌🎨

📚💌 Here’s an excerpt from the powerful November & December @oursharedshelf letter written by Brittney Cooper (@professor_crunk) & Rebecca Traister.
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“Dear Our Shared Shelf Readers,
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We are honored to be able to begin a conversation with you about the power and consequence of women’s rage, both personal and political. We could not be prouder or more excited that Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, and Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger have been selected as the Our Shared Shelf books for November/December 2018.
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The famed feminist activist, poet, and essayist Audre Lorde was one of the foremost thinkers on the importance of anger. In her essay, “The Uses of Anger,” which you will get to read in her book Sister Outsider, she wrote, “every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.”
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To encounter these words is to be changed by them. We have been changed by them. And we hope that women’s anger, put to use within progressive coalitions in which fury is expressed and treated as instructive, will in turn have the power to change the world.
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In this period, as we reckon with the rise of hard right authoritarian regimes around the world, many determined to roll back human rights—the very freedoms generations of angry women before us worked to win—today’s women are again being called to embrace our rage–its force, its potential, its messy complications. The fight against global patriarchy is far from over. Violence abounds but so does the possibility of building a new world from the wreckage of the old one.”
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✊🏾📝✊🏼 You can read the rest of their letter here: tiny.cc/OSSLetter