"Dear Our Shared Shelf,
This book isn't strictly just a book - it's a play that became a political movement that became a world-wide phenomenon. Just say the title The Vagina Monologues and, even now, twenty years after Eve Ensler first performed her ground-breaking show, the words feel radical. I'm very excited about spending the months of January and February reading and discussing a book/play that has literally changed lives.
The first person's life it changed was the feminist playwright Eve Ensler's. She says she didn't so much 'write' her play as act as a conduit for other women's...
"Dear Our Shared Shelf,
November and December’s book will be Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou’s final work, published a year before her death, in 2013, when she was 85 years old. It was the first book to focus on her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned Angelou when she was a child and it portrays their complicated relationship. The story is about the special connection between mother and child; both women found a way to move on and form a profound and enduring bond of love and support.
Many of you may be familiar with Angelou’s 1969 classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,...
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Emma started by saying she will be interviewing Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi in a couple of weeks for Vogue magazine.
Then, she announced there will be some changes for the link:
First, after careful consideration I’ve decided to make books bi-monthly to give people enough time to borrow/buy, read and discuss each book (I hope this gives everyone some extra breathing space. For eager beavers and keen beans I might add a few extra things to look at when a new book is posted.
Second ! For the first time………….. I want YOU to decide what we read over July/August so I’ve set up a poll. I’ve added some ideas to get you going but I’d love to see your suggestions too if you feel strongly. I can’t wait to see what you all pick!
Love,
Emma x
Emma started by saying she will be interviewing Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi in a couple of weeks for Vogue magazine.
Then, she announced there will be some changes for the link:
First, after careful consideration I’ve decided to make books bi-monthly to give people enough time to borrow/buy, read and discuss each book (I hope this gives everyone some extra breathing space. For eager beavers and keen beans I might add a few extra things to look at when a new book is posted.
Second ! For the first time………….. I want YOU to decide what we read over July/August so I’ve set up a poll. I’ve added some ideas to get you going but I’d love to see your suggestions too if you feel strongly. I can’t wait to see what you all pick!
Love,
Emma x
3rd book for Our Shared Shelf is bell hooks' 'All About Love: New Visions'.
This month's book choice is in honor of bell hooks who interviewed me for Paper magazine this month. Maya Angelou said of bell’s work, “Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, she has so much to give us’. I love hearing from bell, I am pretty excited to start “All About Love: New Visions". It’s been on my list for a while.
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Emma recommended a few other things:
Ok Team!
First thing's first, The Color Purple. I read it in two sittings and am now telling EVERYONE I know to watch the film too....
Emma was "interviewed by Oscar-nominated documentary maker @lucywalkerfilm. In the issue, the actress leads #PORTER’s first 100 Incredible Women list – a unique tribute to women around the world.
Speaking openly to Porter magazine, Watson reveals why she is only just - at 25 years old - feeling comfortable in her own skin.
"[I've] spent more than half of my life pretending to be someone else. While my contemporaries were dying their hair and figuring out who they were, I was figuring out who Hermione was and how best to portray her."
"Now at 25 for the first time in my life I feel...
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Speaking openly to Porter magazine, Watson reveals why she is only just - at 25 years old - feeling comfortable in her own skin.
"[I've] spent more than half of my life pretending to be someone else. While my contemporaries were dying their hair and figuring out who they were, I was figuring out who Hermione was and how best to portray her."
"Now at 25 for the first time in my life I feel...
Looks like Harry will always have Hermione's back.
Long after the beloved Harry Potter series ended, Daniel Radcliffe is speaking out in support of costar Emma Watson, and her HeforShe campaign to promote gender equality.
"I think it's fantastic that she's bringing attention to it and adding to the conversation," he tells Nylon for its November issue.
Watson's campaign asks men to throw their support behind gender equality, with the idea that equal rights for women cannot become a reality without advocates from both genders.
To Radcliffe, that's a no-brainer – because the 26-year-old says...
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Long after the beloved Harry Potter series ended, Daniel Radcliffe is speaking out in support of costar Emma Watson, and her HeforShe campaign to promote gender equality.
"I think it's fantastic that she's bringing attention to it and adding to the conversation," he tells Nylon for its November issue.
Watson's campaign asks men to throw their support behind gender equality, with the idea that equal rights for women cannot become a reality without advocates from both genders.
To Radcliffe, that's a no-brainer – because the 26-year-old says...
The interview took happened with Nick Grimshaw via a phone while Emma was promoting Regression in Madrid.
About Regression:
It's really dark. It's kind of one those awesome films where you think you know what it's going to be and then it's completely different, which I think is pretty awesome. I think I never would have done anything like this without knowing I was doing it with a director who was incredibly tasteful, which is Alejandro. I think under any other circumstance I wouldn't really go there but he's just so good.
About Ethan Hawke:
He's such a joy to be around everyday. He would...
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About Regression:
It's really dark. It's kind of one those awesome films where you think you know what it's going to be and then it's completely different, which I think is pretty awesome. I think I never would have done anything like this without knowing I was doing it with a director who was incredibly tasteful, which is Alejandro. I think under any other circumstance I wouldn't really go there but he's just so good.
About Ethan Hawke:
He's such a joy to be around everyday. He would...
Emma Watson made her big-screen debut in 2001's box-office smash Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, bringing to life Hermione Granger, friend to the famous protagonist Harry Potter of J.K. Rowling's children's novel. Born in Paris, where she lived for the first five years of her life, Watson acted only in school plays before breaking into Hollywood with this film, but her performance skills had been honed through dancing, singing, and poetry recitals, the latter of which she had already received recognition for by the age of seven. In the years following that blockbuster, she reprised her role alongside co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint for the subsequent beloved Harry Potter films. A self-avowed serious student at an all-girls school in Oxford, England, Watson signed on for the final two installments of the series, but decided to temporarily put further project offers aside to focus on her studies.
"Dear OSS,
This month I am choosing a book which I confess I have already read. It is so brilliant though. It deserves to be read more than once.
Maybe you read Caitlin’s article in my Esquire guest edit this month ("12 Things About Being A Woman That Women Won’t Tell You")… Maybe you’ve seen some of the hype about her new book Moranifesto... Either way, she is an English hero of mine who I think you need to know. On a side note, this book also appears to have been translated into lots of languages and should be reasonably easy to get hold of.
You’ve probably guessed it by now,...
Heres some of my favourites that I think you guys will like!
1.link (Emma-Watson.net)
2.link (DressLikeEmma.net)
3.link (W.A.T.S.O.N)
4.link (WatsonUncensored)
Hope u check them out! :)
Official links:
link (EmmaWatson.com)
link (EmWatson-Twitter)
link (EmmaWatson-Facebook)
Check those out too!! :)
I just picked my favourites! I didn't put them all because I don't really have time to surf the internet for all the links but I guess I can write them here:
IHeartWatson.net
WatsonPortal.net
OnlyWatson
UltimateWatson
OhWatson
1.link (Emma-Watson.net)
2.link (DressLikeEmma.net)
3.link (W.A.T.S.O.N)
4.link (WatsonUncensored)
Hope u check them out! :)
Official links:
link (EmmaWatson.com)
link (EmWatson-Twitter)
link (EmmaWatson-Facebook)
Check those out too!! :)
I just picked my favourites! I didn't put them all because I don't really have time to surf the internet for all the links but I guess I can write them here:
IHeartWatson.net
WatsonPortal.net
OnlyWatson
UltimateWatson
OhWatson
In our 'Girl Crush' series, women with mutual admiration for one another get together for conversations that offer illuminating looks into what it's like to be a woman right now.
When we look back at this moment as a period in time when women started talking about feminism and identifying as feminists with a passion not seen for many years, some of the high watermarks in this fourth-wave resurgence will be Beyoncé's 2014 VMAs performance, Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance and, of course, Emma Watson's stirring speech at the United Nations. Emma's moving words and her work...
The rapper Kid Cudi wrote a song about Emma, called 'Young Lady'.
The lyrics:
In my head your smile appears clear
Wish it wasn't my imagination
But in a way was a dream
Your eyes they tell it all, called it
Hope you got a good heart,
And you're smart
You got a good head on your shoulders
That's what turns a nigga on, strong
Feelings that I have you'll probably never
Find out ever
I'll admire from afar, star
Keep doing all the great things you're doing
You got it going on, young lady
Jesus Christ, girl!
You got it goin' on, young lady
[x4]
How'd you get so fuckin' cool?
Fools probably trying to spit at...
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The lyrics:
In my head your smile appears clear
Wish it wasn't my imagination
But in a way was a dream
Your eyes they tell it all, called it
Hope you got a good heart,
And you're smart
You got a good head on your shoulders
That's what turns a nigga on, strong
Feelings that I have you'll probably never
Find out ever
I'll admire from afar, star
Keep doing all the great things you're doing
You got it going on, young lady
Jesus Christ, girl!
You got it goin' on, young lady
[x4]
How'd you get so fuckin' cool?
Fools probably trying to spit at...
