Kerry Washington Talks Her Love Of Acting, Owning Her Own Power As A Black Woman For Marie Claire US November 2018

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Kerry Washington Talks Her Love Of Acting, Owning Her Own Power As A Black Woman For Marie Claire US November 2018

Kerry Washington chats with Janet Mock against the backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountains, as the duo hikes along Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Washington covers the new issue of Marie Claire US, exploring life after ‘Scandal’ in the November 2018 Power Issue. Thomas Whiteside is behind the lens for the issue on newsstands October 18.

Her production company, Simpson Street (the Bronx block her mother grew up on), has a slew of television and film projects on its slate, including The Mothers, a Warner Brothers film adaptation of Brit Bennett’s acclaimed novel; Universal’s workplace comedy 24-7, costarring Eva Longoria; psychological thriller The Perfect Mother; and an adaptation of Celeste Ng’s best-selling novel Little Fires Everywhere for Hulu, in which she costars alongside fellow executive producer Reese Witherspoon.

Washington’s most recent fame came in her producing and acting roles in the 2016 HBO film ‘Confirmation’ regarding the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings. Speaking of her role in ‘Scandal’, Washington hits a high note on the subject of expressing her black woman identity:

“I didn’t feel like I had to twist myself into some other understanding of what black womanness is supposed to look like, because Shonda [Rhimes] got me. Just her existence and working with her so intimately changed the idea of what power looked like in this business.”

Kerry Washington Talks Natural Hair In Allure US November 2017 & Trump At GLSEN Respect Awards

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Actor and producer Kerry Washington covers the November 2017 issue of Allure magazine, styled byHanna Kelifa in 'Kerry On'. Photographer Sharif Hamza flashes Washington with an accompanying interview by Judith Newman the day after Charlottesville. 

The duo meet at the Hammer Museum in LA, where Washington wants to experience the Gamelatron Sanctuary. In an honest, on-the-spot assessment reality check Newman writes:

While she is peacing out, I notice looming nearby an electric sign by the artist Sam Durant. It reads, simply, “END WHITE SUPREMACY.” We are having this interview the day after Charlottesville, and now I am supposed to be talking to one of the leading African-American actresses of our time about, um, moisturizer. This is very awkward for one of us. That one is not Kerry. I mention this to her.

Women's News | Experts See Huge Progress For Females In The IUD Revolution

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The IUD revolution VOX

Delaware has the highest unintended pregnancy rate in the country — 62 per every 1,000 women between 15 and 44. Fifty-seven percent of the pregnancies in the state are unintentional.

"I used to understand birth control as a way to prevent abortion," Delaware Gov. Jack Markell told me in a recent interview. "That's true, but now I have a different way of looking at it. This is really an issue about opportunity, and the opportunities women get when they have children when they want to."

The Delaware and Upstream partnership is how the mechanical vagina— and a team of Upstream staff members — ended up traveling to the Life Health Center in Wilmington.

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