This week we were joined by Trans Sydney Pride's AJ Brown and his partner Lisa Freshwater who spoke with us about the YES Rally for Marriage Equality happening at Town Hall on September 10. They spoke about what marriage equality would mean for their family, transphobic rhetoric in the no campaign, and how to get involved in Sunday's rally.
It was Beyonce’s birthday this week, and her family and best friends dressed up as her, in aid of Beyonce’s Houston relief efforts. Amongst others, Serena Williams, Kelly Rowland, Jay Z’s mum and Michelle Obama paid tribute to Beyonce by recreating a look from the Formation video, the one where she has that huge hat covering her eyes, she’s looking down, her hair’s in braids. You can donate to the Beyonce's Houston relief campaign here.
We also spoke about Munroe Bergdorf, the first transgender woman to feature in a L’Oréal Paris UK campaign. Bergdorf was fired after a Facebook post in response to Charlottesville, in which she wrote that all "white people benefit from racism, have learned and internalised racist practices and opinions and must be engaged in dismantling their unconscious racism, which at present helps to maintain a system of white supremacy."
Rihanna also launched her new makeup range, Fenty Beauty which has a selection of over 40 different makeup shades that are genuinely inclusive of women of colour. "I wanted things that girls of all skin tones could fall in love with," Rihanna says. "That was really important for me. In every product I was like: ‘There needs to be something for a dark-skinned girl; there needs to be something for a really pale girl; there needs to be something in-between.’"
