The GLAMOUR Ladies of the Yr Awards 2024, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Ring, are in full swing and, as soon as once more, we’re packed to the rafters with trailblazing, record-breaking, down proper outstanding girls.
And none extra so than the winner of our Gamechanging Voice Award, Jameela Jamil. One of the outspoken and prolific on-line critics of her era, Jameela makes use of her platform to name out every little thing from white privilege in politics to the rise of weight-loss treatment.
So it is no marvel Jameela used her acceptance speech to attract everybody’s consideration to a number of the most pertinent points affecting girls and women.
“I used to be 27 the final time I received certainly one of these,” Jameela mentioned. “I keep in mind what an thrilling time that was for ladies. We have been on the precipice of #MeToo, the physique positivity motion, age acceptance and we have been embracing folks due to what made them completely different; not despite it.
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Cally Jane Beech: ‘Picture-based abuse is a pandemic in opposition to girls and women’
Campaigner and influencer Cally Jane Beech is being honoured as GLAMOUR’S Activist of the Yr at our annual Ladies of the Yr Awards for courageously taking a stand in opposition to digitally altered, sexually express ‘deepfakes’ of ladies and women. Right here, she speaks to GLAMOUR about her expertise of deepfake abuse, how motherhood influences her activism, and why she’s calling on the federal government to guard all survivors of image-based abuse.
“11 years later,” she continued, “and one thing bizarre is occurring and we have to discuss it. How is heroin stylish on its method again? 20-somethings and teenagers are destroying their pores and skin limitations and saying issues like ‘retinol’ and ‘Botox’. And it appears like we’re all morphing, type of, into the identical Snapchat face. Identical eyes, lips, cheekbones and noses. Yesterday, I watched a literal 8-year-old on TikTok take folks by means of her evening time pores and skin routine – and it was reported final 12 months, that women as younger as 4 are actually worrying about their weight. FOUR. I wish to be clear, I don’t disapprove of any selection anybody needs to make with their face or physique. Look nonetheless you wish to look. I really like style and hair and sweetness. However I draw the road at ache, struggling and risking our lives. As a result of life is tough sufficient. Why is girls’s discomfort and hurt nonetheless so hyper normalised?”
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