Emily Ratajkowski Audience Q & A at Live Talks Los Angeles
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- čas přidán 7. 05. 2024
- The audience Q&A part of an event with Emily Ratajkowski in conversation with Elaine Welteroth
discussing her collection of essays, "My Body"
Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer. Ratajkowski has also appeared on the covers of multiple magazines and walked the runway for numerous high fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York magazine, “Buying Myself Back,” led to widespread public discourse on image ownership and garnered over one million views within twenty-four hours, and was the magazine’s most-read piece of the year. My Body is her first book.
Since 2017, Ratajkowski has successfully translated her more than 26 million followers on Instagram into a successful direct-to-consumer business via her apparel line, Inamorata. As a model, she has appeared on the covers of major fashion/lifestyle magazines and is currently the face of L’Oréal’s hair care line Kerastase. As an actress, she has appeared in multiple films, including David Fincher’s Gone Girl and alongside Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty. Ratajkowski is also outspoken politically, continually using her platform to advocate for her political beliefs, having campaigned for Bernie Sanders in both 2016 and 2020.
In April 2021, she announced that she was NFT’ing a conceptual art piece via a Christie’s auction, raising questions about the nature of authorship, specifically when it comes to the digital realm, while figuratively returning an appropriated Instagram post to its digitally native terrain. Building upon her New York magazine essay, the auction amplified the dialogue surrounding women controlling their image and the ability to receive rightful compensation for its usage and distribution.
Elaine Welteroth is an award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, producer, and judge on Bravo’s Project Runway. She is known for her work at the helm of Teen Vogue, where in 2016 she was appointed the youngest ever Editor-in-Chief at a Conde Nast publication and used her position to prioritize diversity and social justice coverage. Prior to stepping into the role, she served as the first Black Beauty Director in Condé Nast’s 100-plus-year history. She’s now a leading expert and advocate for the next generation of changemakers. She was recently named Editor-at-Large of Complex and Verizon’s new digital magazine In The Know where she oversees all covers and leads culture-shifting conversations speaking directly to the intersectional interests of Gen-Z.
“In prose that is by turns honey smooth and vicious, uproarious and wounded, Emily Ratajkowski has captured the complicated terrain of having a body people want to sell while having her own agenda she refuses to give up. She knows the pain that lives in every woman and she isn’t afraid to link arms and say she’s been there, and that it hurts. This is the book for all women trying to place their bodies on the map of consumption versus control, and all who want to better understand their impulses. It left me much changed.”
―Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of Girl
My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men’s treatment of women and women’s rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse.
Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence. - Zábava
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Boy those were a lot of questions, she responded very well
wow, great answers to all of the questions. So insightful. She's so well spoken, self aware and real. Thank you emily for sharing and opening up so bravely. You are such an inspiration always. finally its focus on her thoughts and her as a person.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m glad she’s had spaces to talk about the book at length.
That interviewer is absolutely STUNNING!!!!
Elaine Welteroth, she’s wonderful
I like her a lot
Brilliant questions and answers!👏
omfg the interviewer is absolutely stunning!
ngl i was looking at her a lot through the whole interview😭😭😭😭
Emily❣️
I like Emily
Love you Em! very insightful interview. love the outfit too ;)
Like her
Emily you’re a queen
quee? of what? she make money, now she's criying about it? come on.....
wish I attended this
She's so incredibly honest
her honesty is not what impresses most people sadly
@@kellymulderino7156 I know, right.
You know ...
I don't agree with what she said about women being competitive and mean to each other not having anything to do with men.
First of all I am not like that, I do not devalue other women in order to feel good about myself. And second I think that the women who do that do it based on what society has taught us that women should be like, they critisize and devalue other women based on the fact that the patriarchal society has taught us to devalue women in general, in any way possible.
So YES I think that men play a huge part in that and if a woman is insecure and thinks that a man would not prefer her over others and that she is not very special, then she devalues other women.
SO YES I think that it is 100% based on the patriarchal society and the way that it devalued women for centuries, that is why those women are SO insecure. And that is why they feel so comfortable to devalue other women, it is socially acceptable and even encouraged by the men around them, who also devalue women.