It's Up To Us To Take Pop

It's Up To Us To Take Pop Culture Back And To Express Quality And Dignity For Both Boys And Girls.

The Conversation About Women’s Bodies Exists Largely Outside Of Us, While It Is Also Directed At And Marketed To Us, And Used To Define And Control Us. The Conversation About Women Happens Everywhere, Publicly And Privately. We Are Described And Detailed, Our Faces And Bodies Analyzed And Picked Apart, Our Worth Ascertained And Ascribed Based On The Reduction Of Personhood To Simple Physical Objectification. Our Voices, Our Personhood, Our Potential, And Our Accomplishments Are Regularly Minimized And Muted.

When I Accept A Role, I Feel That As An Artist I Have To Submit Completely To The Tutelage Of My Director. And While I Expect To Be Heard And Encouraged And Honored, At The End Of The Day, Man, It's The Way The Director Wants It.

I Have Said Countless Times That Unless You Are Delivering A Product And Service That Is Really Needed And Unless You Are Doing It Really Well, You Don't Stick Around For 80 Years.

You Have So Much Power To Bring Awareness, Prevention And Change.