Solidarity with Hollywood Women, Mónica Ramírez | MAKERS Moment

Solidarity with Hollywood Women, Mónica Ramírez | MAKERS Moment

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- I think that what most people don't realize when the story is told about Time's Up and even our letter, is that, farmworker women were immediately able to recognize that justice farmworker women live in the shadows and those shadows have paralyzed and continue to paralyze farmworker women. And make it impossible for them to speak out.

They were able to see that the bright lights that women in entertainment are living and working under were also causing its own type of paralysis. And they were able to see past sort of the lines that society draws for us about, you know, where we should be, who we should be speaking with and on behalf of, or even who we should be in connection with. And I think that insight is really what was at the heart of making the transformational change that we've seen.

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