2023 MAKERS UK Welcome Video
2023 MAKERS UK Welcome Video
Video Transcript
- Well, tonight, COVID cases are on the rise again.
- The UK economy is at standstill.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- Queen Elizabeth II has been our longest-ever reigning monarch.
SOMA SARA: So many of us had had these experiences of sexual violence and rape culture growing up.
- It's an epidemic level of violence against women and girls.
- The war in Ukraine has begun.
- Here we are, a year on, with no indication of when this war might finish.
- "Roe v. Wade" is overruled.
NANCY PELOSI: American women today have less freedom than their mothers.
- Women have lost a generation of gains in the workforce.
- Protests after the death of a young Iranian woman accused of improperly wearing her headscarf.
- The gender pay gap in the UK currently sits at 15.4%.
- What do we want?
- Justice!
- When do we want it?
- Now!
- Enough is enough!
- Enough is enough!
- It starts with us having conversations about, what is the future that we want?
- The future for me is Indigenous female leadership being normalized.
- There's no one out there that can say that your dreams are too big. You can achieve them no matter what.
- Making the active choice to engage my curiosity and compassion before immediately rushing to judgment.
- Making sure that we have content that is representing the way the world actually looks.
- It is when we are in positions of power, when we can recruit, when we can stand up to bullying, to misogyny, to racism, then the change will happen.
- Making sure that the stories of women of color are not lost as a way of bringing new people into conversation about building the future of the movement.
- Each and every one of US has to be the makers for the brighter future of tomorrow.
- Our goal, in part, I think is to bring people hope for the future.
- It's up to everyone to make the future.
- You ready?
- Let's do this.
- We wanted to adjust the white dress code that doesn't take into consideration female athletes on their periods.
- The 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Beth Mead.
- Jen Beattie, congratulated.
- Arsenal, Continental Cup champions.
- (SINGING) I'm the queen.
- Arianna DeBose, "West Side Story."
- You see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength in life through art.
- Kamala Khan, Marvel's first Muslim superhero.
- Maya Angelou, the first Black woman on a US quarter.
- Primatologist Jane Goodall has gotten her own Barbie doll.
- Pilot Zara Rutherford, the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.
- (SINGING) I'm the queen.
- I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position.
- Francia Marquez Mena, Colombia's first Black vice president.
- Paralympian Ellie Simmons swapped her swimming cap for her dancing shoes.
- Being the first group and the fact that we're an R&B act as well, that's really amazing.
- In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court.
[APPLAUSE]
- (SINGING) Regardless of the stones you throw at me, I'm the queen.
- Some things are worth fighting for.
- (SINGING) I'm the queen.
- Give me five.
