Lupita Nyong'o Talks Diversity in Hollywood at Cartier Women's Initiative Awards:

accras:

Nyong'o spoke about the power of using storytelling to change women’s lives. Mentioning how she grew up in Kenya near two sisters, one dark-skinned like herself and one who has albinism, Nyong'o noted how this taught her about her own biases, not being certain about the albino sister and tending more toward spending time with the other sister. Nyong'o subsequently made the 2009 documentary “In My Genes” about albinism, which in turn has shown her home country’s government how to better serve the albino population, which is discriminated against in hiring and health care, among other things.

Hollywood also needs to improve on diversity, Nyong'o emphasized, noting that people handing out film awards should reflect our population and citing USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative research that 78 percent of film critics are male and white, while only 14 percent are people of color.  

As for storytelling, people in the entertainment industry say they “want a more universal story, which is code for white, it is so important to shatter that,“ said Nyong'o. “When you invest in specificity, that’s when you really capture the universality. We can combat gender bias on a macro level and we can also do it on a micro level and this is where story exists — really showing the nuance of a person’s experience and, in so doing, you capture a larger humanity.”

#diversity

via Tumblr https://mymarketingfile.com/post/184654657623