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ON THE COVERS Photographs by Quentin Jones. Scarlett

Johansson cover: Chanel top, earrings, belt,

and pants. Styling by Cher Coulter. Florence

Pugh cover: Saint Laurent by Anthony

Vaccarello dress. Styling by Molly Dickson.

Both women together, on Johansson: Dior

top, corset, and skirt. On Pugh: Miu Miu dress;

Chanel earrings; Cornelia James gloves.

Makeup: Estée Lauder Pure Color Envy Matte

Sculpting Lipstick in Impressionable (on

Johansson) and Wilder (on Pugh).

POWER TRIP39 A road map to becoming

your own boss.

VESTED INTEREST44 What happens when a

social-justice movement becomes a big organiza-tion? Plus, the positive impact of paid time off for that time of the month.

BEAUTY & WELLNESS49 Party your way into the

new year with glam goodies, master that elusive je ne sais quoi—plus, more.

FASHION & FEATURES74 MARVELOUS WOMEN

Black Widow might be delayed, but stars Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh aren’t slowing down.

82 THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR BLACK LIVES

Meet eight women leading the charge for civil rights around the world.

88 WILLOW THE WISE

Willow Smith is making art and catalyzing change.

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100 SPEAKING SELENA

She’s not just playing a household name, she’s becoming one: Actress Christian Serratos steps into the spotlight.

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“Mentorship is all around you if you just

open up your eyes and are willing to receive

it,” Chase Consumer Banking CEO Thasunda

Brown Duckett said on a panel I moderated

about empowerment a few weeks ago. It

stuck with me. The idea that mentors are

everywhere—to our left, to our right, below

us, in addition to above us—is something

that I’ve found to be true and so valuable in

my own career. Just days later, the news

that I would be taking on the role of editor

in chief at Marie Claire, succeeding Aya

Kanai—a woman who became a mentor,

friend, and confidante in the months we

worked together—would be announced, sig-

naling a new chapter in my own life as well

as in this magazine’s. I was grateful in

that moment, and am as I look ahead, to have

a team of mentors—the editors, writers,

designers, and researchers here at Marie

Claire—who inspire and challenge me every

day. And it feels fitting that this issue, the last

that Aya and I worked on together, is the

magazine we’re putting out right now.

Our covers feature two powerhouses, Florence Pugh and

Scarlett Johansson, who became friends—“It was instant sisterly

bonding,” according to Pugh—while filming the next Marvel

blockbuster, Black Widow. In the story (p. 74), the two speak

with writer Mitchell S. Jackson about the strong female pres-

ence on set, the uncertainty of 2020 (including the postpone-

ment of the film’s release to 2021), and how work and life shifted

SALLY HOLMESEditor in Chief

Come Togetherduring quarantine. For Johansson, the re-

strictions reinforced for her how important

her team—those mentors—are to her creative

process. “It’s a communal effort to make

stuff, and it’s challenging,” she says. “I don’t

know if I could do it [on my own].”

In “Willow the Wise” (p. 88), artist Willow

Smith addresses her own role as a mentor,

particularly to her peers. “At the end of the

day, it always takes just one person to be

like, ‘Eff it, I’m going to go and I’m going to

say this,’ and then all of the people who

feel the same way [say], ‘I’m going to stand

with them.’ ” she explains. That idea of

finding inspiration in those who speak up

and speak out is further explored in “The

Global Fight for Black Lives” (p. 82). Eight

women leading the Black Lives Matter move-

ment in their home countries share what

drives them to tirelessly fight for what is

right—and galvanize us to do the same.

It isn’t lost on me that this issue is arriving

in your hands just days after one of the most

consequential elections in history. While I

don’t know what the outcome will be, I do know that we’ll all

need to cooperate, listen to one another, and inspire those

around us to move forward, together.

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Winter Reading Cheat Sheet

Starz’s Vida, the

2002 film

Frida starring Salma

Hayek, bold beauty

statements

Netflix’s The Crown,

@kensingtonroyal

on Instagram,

Aquazzura heels à la

Meghan Markle

Michelle Obama’s

memoir, Becoming,

or her thought-

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Mindy Kaling’s Is

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Out Without Me?,

Gabrielle Union’s

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More Wine, Phoebe

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Black Frasier

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In this book—

part biography,

part self-help—

Arianna Davis

dives into the

culture-shifting,

vibrant world

of Frida Kahlo

and the lessons

on resilience

we can adopt

from the

Mexican artist.

In the first of

two volumes,

POTUS 44

provides an

honest

account of

the lows and

highs during

his years in

office, from

inheriting the

presidency

during a global

financial crisis

to securing the

passage of the

Affordable

Care Act, all

while empha-

sizing the

importance of

preserving our

democracy

amid challeng-

ing times.

Veteran

journalist

Elizabeth

Holmes has

transformed

her popular

social-media

series into

a gorgeous

book

analyzing the

sartorial

choices of

the four most

fashionable

British

royals

in recent

memory.

Enter the

“Buteaupia”

in this

unapologetic,

laugh-alone-

in-your-

room collec-

tion of essays

featuring

Michelle

Buteau’s

reflections on

growing up

“Caribbean,

Catholic, and

thick” in

New Jersey.

—Rachel Epstein

In her debut

book, the actress

updates beloved

childhood classics

like The Three

Little Pigs with

modern lessons

and cheeky sensibilities

that will surely impart

wisdom to kids and adults

alike. Here, the Oscar winner

shares her favorite things

to watch, read, and listen to.

Last thing I binge-

watched was Schitt’s

Creek. I think Catherine

O’Hara is one of the great-

est actresses of our time.

Books that left a lasting

impression on me are

Elena Ferrante’s. They

changed the threshold of

what a woman can do with

her art and her mystery.

If I had a podcast, it would

be about word origins.

Song that always makes

me cry is Bonnie Raitt’s

“I Can’t Make You Love Me.”

Every woman in her

lifetime should read Audre

Lorde’s Sister Outsider.

The first thing I listen

to most days is

The Daily podcast.

My favorite childhood

author was Ann M. Martin.

I was a Baby-Sitters Club

fanatic.

The childhood book char-

acter who still resonates

with me today is Eloise.

She was the only girl

character I remember with

a big personality as a child.

She was not polite, very

creative, and super funny.

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1 Stylish With Jenna Lyons (HBO Max,

December 3)

Jenna Lyons needs a

job. Watch as the

bespectacled fashion

darling navigates life

post-J.Crew, trying out

new career paths

with plucky assistants

in tow. Come for her

tips on high-low

dressing; stay for her

hilarious portrayal

of life as an apprehen-

sive entrepreneur.

2 Industry(HBO, November 9)

This drama, starring

Myha’la Herrold,

offers an unflinching

look at working in high

finance and the

painful sacrifices it

takes to stand out on

the trading floor. And

with Lena Dunham as

the series premiere’s

director, it’s sure to be

buzzed about.

3 Bridgerton(Netflix, December 25)

Based on Julia Quinn’s

romance novels, this

delicious series

set in 1800s London

is narrated by Julie

Andrews as a bawdy

writer who sows

discord in British high

society. It’s Gossip Girl meets Downton Abbey

with a pinch of Shonda

Rhimes genius

for good measure.

4 The Midnight Sky (Netflix, December 23)

George Clooney

is here to save 2020,

quite literally, with this

postapocalyptic sci-fi

tale. The Hollywood

heavyweight

directs and stars as

a scientist tasked with

stopping a group

of astronauts, played

by Felicity Jones,

David Oyelowo, and

Tiffany Boone,

from returning to an

Earth wrecked by

catastrophe. Hits a bit

close to home, huh?

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THE STATE OF GABRIELLE UNION

Q&A

Uncertainty appears to be the only certainty

in 2020, yet nothing has slowed down Gabrielle

Union, an indefatigable one-woman cottage

industry with ambition and moxie to burn. Here,

the actress talks about emptying out her “basket

of fucks” and choosing to speak truth to power.

—Lola Ogunnaike

On dealing with racism on set: “I should be

able to exist however the fuck I want to exist, because if you’re hiring Gabrielle

Union for my talent, then my talent is going to come out of my body in every way,

shape, and incarnation that I can imagine.” On people who have dismissed

her trauma: “That very sentiment is how all of this has been allowed to go on

for centuries; that kind of gaslighting, I categorically reject.” On turning 40 and

choosing to be “fully present” and “fully free”: “I cannot center fear in my

life. I can’t center functioning from a fear of scarcity. They say silence is violence,

and I refuse to be complicit in my silence.” On raising a trans child: “You

want your child to feel freedom to be exactly as they are.…We are her lifetime

lifelines to love, peace, joy, grace, protection, and compassion.”

Read the full interview at marieclaire.com/gabrielle-union.

5 I’m Your Woman(Amazon Prime Video,

December 11)

The ’70s have never

looked so marvelous.

The Julia Hart–directed

film subverts the mob

thriller, putting house-

wife Jean, played by

Emmy-winning

Rachel Brosnahan,

at its center, forcing

her to abandon a

picturesque life and

become a woman

to be reckoned with.

6 The Prom

(Netflix, December 11)

Hollywood goes high

school in this feel-

good, star-studded

adaptation of the 2016

Broadway hit about a

queer teen couple in a

conservative town. If

only Meryl Streep and

Ryan Murphy could

be in charge of all our

school dances.

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This year has re-established the importance of “home.”

For her 2021 Cruise collection, Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri returned

to her native Italy, calling on the talents of artisans from Lecce in Puglia to weave their

techniques into her most personal

collection yet.

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away, by November 2019 Christian Dior artistic director Maria

Grazia Chiuri had already decided on the location for the

maison’s Cruise 2021 collection: her home country of Italy,

specifically the Puglia region, and more specifically the small

city of Lecce, located in the heel of the boot. Puglia holds a

place close to the designer’s heart; her father was born there,

and she spent many years of her life visiting. Chiuri was

inspired by the energy, the mystical beliefs, and the crafts-

manship of the region, and the show was shaping up to be

a homecoming of sorts. Then came the shutdowns.

When Italy became a COVID-19 epicenter, Dior’s plan for

a splashy Cruise presentation on May 9 filled with celebrities,

clients, and international press was shelved. Undeterred,

Chiuri continued her work throughout quarantine, communi-

cating remotely with the Puglia-based artisans. Chiuri felt

it was important, especially in confinement, “to support and

showcase the virtuosity of these artisans and artists, so that

the beauty of their gestures, emotion, and poetry may endure.”

Although the show was still six months

By June, the curve had begun to bend in the right direction,

and Italy was slowly recovering. With this news, Dior

CEO Pietro Beccari announced that Cruise 2021 was indeed on,

albeit in a format better suited to our new world. Yes, the festa

di piazza as initially envisioned by Chiuri would take place,

but now in an empty Piazza del Duomo, transmitted virtually

to tens of millions at once. It was Beccari and Chiuri’s wish

that the presentation would not only highlight the local talent

and their craftsmanship on an international stage but also

“send a message of hope, optimism, and …rebirth.”

Like all great Italian festivals, the scene was set with

magnificent lights. For this, Chiuri employed the local house

of Fratelli Parisi, which, in conjunction with artist Marinella

Senatore, created a dreamscape. The fantastical swirls and

patterns were echoed in some of the collection’s prints

and embroideries. Choreographer Sharon Eyal worked with

La Notte della Taranta Foundation, an organization dedicated

to the preservation of the region’s culture, to weave a tradition-

al pizzica dance in between the 90 models as they walked

the runway. (Similar staging was previously employed by

Chiuri for the Dior Spring 2019 presentation.) Italian composer

and conductor Paolo Buonvino created an exclusive composi-

tion, reinterpreting Puglian melodies. With the lights,

models, music, and “guest list” sorted, it was on to the clothes.

Delicate woven looks in bicolored designs came gracefully

gliding out—some featuring the motto of the area’s artisan

sorority Le Costantine Foundation, “amando e cantando”

(loving and singing), paying tribute to the traditional songs

still sung by the female weavers practicing this art form. Hand-

embroidered floral motifs designed by Italian artist Pietro

Ruffo sprung to life, courtesy of “les petites mains” of the

Dior ateliers, while an age-old weaving technique involving

hand-knotting was employed by local family business La

Tessitura Calabrese, with dizzying results, on rustic laces and

sumptuous fringes. The mix of regional Italian handicraft and

couture-level savoir faire continued throughout, blending the

haute with the humble, just as Chiuri herself hardened her

more bohemian sensibilities, lacing molded leather corsets

over diaphanous designs. This marriage of Puglia and Paris

reached its crescendo at look 84: a gown calling to mind

the iconic Miss Dior dress of 1949, reimagined for 2021 using

an extremely delicate style of lace called tombolo. Created

in 15th-century Italy, tombolo is now so rare that there is

only a handful of remaining embroiderers who practice the

technique. The embellishments for this look alone took 15

hours to complete, and when they were in bloom on Chiuri’s

design, they were arresting to behold.

We all—everyone around the world—watched this online.

Yet through my computer screen 4,500 miles from Puglia,

I sensed a feeling of connection, of intimacy. One understood

almost immediately what Chiuri had set out to do. While

locked down, and with the weight of a massive luxury brand

on her shoulders, she showed the world her true self. Her

roots. Her home. For nearly a year, we’ve all been reexamining

what home means—what’s truly important, what our values

are. Chiuri, since taking the reins as the first female designer

of the house of Dior, has demonstratively promoted a female-

empowered agenda; with this collection, she’s done so again.

By celebrating disappearing Italian traditions, those typically

practiced by women at home—and often viewed as domestic

work—Chiuri placed new value on them, exalted them to

couture level, and amplified them globally, all while inviting

younger generations to share in this pride. Ultimately,

what could be more inspiring than this? —Joseph Errico

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Come Into Bloom For his most recent collaboration with Dior, Italian artist Pietro Ruffo produced more than 250

floral illustrations inspired by the book De Florum Cultura, published by Giovanni Battista Ferrari in 1638. Ruffo and Maria

Grazi Chiuri narrowed these down to five motifs they used throughout the collection (and seen here on this Catherine tote

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cylinders by day; getting your body relaxed and

ready to sleep at night can seem impossible.

Your best ally in the quest to rest may just be your

bedroom—with a few soothing design tweaks.

“An ideal bedroom provides an environment

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When it comes to getting a good night’s sleep, “the mattress is the most important element,” says Kraiem. “My key recommendation is to source one from a company with a good, long-lasting reputation, like Stearns & Foster.”

LAYER YOUR LIGHTING

Kraiem favors a mix, from table lamps and reading sconces to recessed lights and chandeliers. Try bulbs with lower wattages and dimmers to control the mood. To block outside light, Kraiem suggests lightweight curtains or Roman shades with blackout lining.

PICK A PEACEFUL PALETTE

A bedroom’s color scheme can affect your mood and routine. Kraiem tends toward soothing hues, like shades of blue, ivory, mauve, and gray, with light bedding to anchor the room. “White and ivory sheets are classics and make the bed feel clean and crisp,” she says.

GO SCREEN-FREE

Most of us are guilty of screens in the bedroom (no shame, just reality!). But blue light from electronics can interfere with your circadian rhythms, so try to check them at the door.

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Off-White BLUE BOW

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NIKE SET, $120;

trynabstudios.com.

ALASKA: Rory’s

Rocks CLAMSHELL

TRINKET DISHES,

$30; etsy.com/shop/

rorysrocks.

ARIZONA: M+A

Naturals FACIAL OIL,

$38; manaturalsco

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ARKANSAS: Cynthia

Ann Jewels MOSAIC,

$11,925; at Roberson’s

Fine Jewelry,

(501) 664-9000.

CALIFORNIA: Stems

Napa Valley SCARF,

$125; stemsnv.com.

COLORADO: Hannah Hazel Glass

STAINED-GLASS

CIRCLES, $115;

hanhaz.com.

CONNECTICUT: Meb’s Kitchenwares

TOAST BOARD AND

KNIFE SET, $68;

mebskitchenwares

.com.

DELAWARE: Asata

Maisé HAT, $200;

asatamaise.com.

FLORIDA: Jlani RING,

$45; jlanijewels.com.

GEORGIA: Creativholistic

AFFIRMATION-

CARD DECK, $45;

creativholistic.co.

HAWAII: Lola Pilar

Hawaii SCARF, $165;

lolapilarhawaii.com.

IDAHO: Gypsy Vine

CANDLE, $22;

idahojournee.com.

ILLINOIS: Pear Nova

NAIL POLISH SET,

$50; pearnova.com.

INDIANA: People

for Urban Progress

TOTE BAG, $124;

silverinthecity.com.

IOWA: Nash & Ivy

EARRINGS, $18;

shopnashandivy.com.

KANSAS: Katherine

Moes Clay Co.

CERAMIC BELL, $32;

goldenandpine.com.

KENTUCKY: Bethany

Rose Pottery MUG,

$36; bethanyrose

pottery.com.

LOUISIANA: Leontine Linens

NAPKINS, $180;

leontinelinens.com.

MAINE: ANK

Ceramics PLATE SET,

$128; ankceramics.com.

MARYLAND: Blue Q

OVEN MITT,

$14; pandorasbox

boutique.com.

MASSACHUSETTS: Gâté Comme Des

Filles ASSORTED

BONBONS, $43;

gatecommedesfilles.fr.

MICHIGAN: Ilera Apothecary

REVITALIZING

NIGHT OIL, $30;

ileraapothecary.com.

MINNESOTA: Larissa

Loden NECKLACE,

$75; larissaloden.com.

MISSISSIPPI: A Good

Meal Is Hard to Find

COOKBOOK, by Amy

C. Evans and Martha

Hall Foose, $25;

chroniclebooks.com.

MISSOURI: The

Object Enthusiast

TRAY, $96; theobject

enthusiast.com.

MONTANA: Olivelle

OLIVE OIL, $18;

olivelle.com.

NEBRASKA: The Soap Market

CANDLE, $16;

thesoapmarket.com.

NEVADA: Tranquili-

Tea Organic

INFUSER TEAPOT,

$18; tranquilitea

organic.com.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Badger BADGER

BALM, $10;

badgerbalm.com.

NEW JERSEY: Zach &

Zoë Sweet Bee

Farm HONEY, $20;

zachandzoe.co.

NEW MEXICO: Kei & Molly Textiles

CLOTH BAG SET,

$18; keiandmolly.com.

NEW YORK: Lido TOP, $105;

lidoworld.com.

NORTH CAROLINA: Fiddlehead Farm

SALTED-CARAMEL

APPLE BUTTER,

$9; fiddleheadnc.com.

NORTH DAKOTA: Prairie Products

SLEEP + RELAX

TINCTURE, $50;

prairieproductsnd.com.

OHIO: Lolly Lolly

Ceramics MUG, $38;

lolly-lolly.com.

OKLAHOMA: Lizzie

DiSilvestro Art

PAINTING, $2,300;

ldisilvestroart.com.

OREGON: Martina

Thornhill CERAMIC

TRAVEL CUP, $52;

martinathornhill.com.

PENNSYLVANIA: Sophie Lou Jacobsen

VASE, $210;

shopyowie.com.

RHODE ISLAND: Loren Hope

EARRINGS, $98;

lorenhope.com.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Candlefish CANDLE,

$24; candlefish.com.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hippie Haven

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$7; hippiehaven

shop.com.

TENNESSEE: Lemon

Laine FACIAL OIL,

$65; lemonlaine.com.

TEXAS: Psychic

Outlaw CHORE

COAT, from $180;

psychicoutlaw.com.

UTAH: Little

Blackbird Soap

Company

BATH BOMB, $6;

littleblackbirdsoap

company.com.

VERMONT: Buckley

Projects PRINT, $65;

buckleyprojects.com.

VIRGINIA: Kmpressed PRINT,

from $23;

kmpressed.com.

WASHINGTON: Phantom Quartz

CRYSTAL, price upon

request; phantom-

quartz.com.

WEST VIRGINIA: As It Should Be

GOLDEN GODDESS

BUTTER, $22;

youraisb.com.

WISCONSIN: Wildewood

PLANTER, $24;

wildewoodshop.co.

WYOMING: Circcell

FACE OIL, $165;

circcell.com.

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FROM TOP LEFT: Larkspur & Hawk x Dempsey & Carroll ENVELOPE, $80 per set; larkspurandhawk.com.

Papier NOTECARD, $28 per set; papier.com. Griffin’s Nest Co. FLORAL STATIONERY, $16; griffinsnest.co.

Tiffany & Co. STATIONERY BOX, $625; tiffany.com. The Pencillarium TURQUOISE PENCIL, $4; pencillarium.com.

Beasties & Botanicals POSTCARDS WITH TWILL, $12; beastiesbotanicals.etsy.com. Sarah Flint x Crane BLUE

FLORAL STATIONERY, $45; sarahflint.com. Cartier PEN, $465; cartier.com.

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HARWELL GODFREY Lauren Harwell Godfrey’s Hexed collection is inspired by four personality types: the visionary, the peacemaker, the adventurer, and the lover. There’s a pendant for each persona, complete with a perfectly curated set of stones. The Peacemaker necklace is designed with tigereye to promote balance, while the Adventurer (shown here) has malachite and is meant as a travel keepsake.

ANAKATARINA The four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) inspired

Ana-Katarina Vinkler-Petrovic’s latest line. Each holds unique powers: Air represents vast potential, while water

can purify. As the longtime humanitarian puts it, “by engaging with these connections to the natural world, we can ground our energy to enhance the abundance of our

spirit and the life created around us.”

THE STARS ARE ALIGNED

F I V E J E W E L R Y D E S I G N E R S O N H O W

T H E M E T A P H Y S I C A L C O N N E C T S U S A L L ,

N O M A T T E R W H E R E W E R E S I D E .

SEWIT SIUM A tribute to Black perseverance in the face of oppression, Sewit Sium’s Freedom collection celebrates truth, justice, and

equality. The Cosmos necklace (shown here), features a moon and

a star, reaffirming that we are part of something greater than ourselves. Sium intends for the collection to be worn as a continual reminder of Black heritage, community, and the “pursuit of freedom.”

SORELLINA In 2019, Nicole

Carosella (half of the sister designer duo behind the brand)

had a tarot-card reading. Although times were tough for Carosella, the

tarologist drew the strength card. After

the reading, not only did Carosella find the

motivation to push through her personal difficulties, but a new

collection—based on the iconography of a

tarot deck—was born.

ALMASIKA Chicago-based designer Catherine Sarr’s newest collection is called Sagesse, or “wisdom” in French. The designs contain symbols from ancient traditions and proverbs, as well as concentric circles, which have long signified the universe.

NECKLACE,

$3,250; almasika

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NECKLACE,

$17,500; sorellina nyc.com.

PENDANT,

$3,535; anakatarina

.com.

NECKLACE,

$316; sewit sium.com.

PENDANT,

$7,850; harwell

godfrey.com.

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The pandemic has catapulted capitalism into a future unknown—and the gig market

into center focus. Pandemic-related layoffs have created intense need and competition

for contract jobs, and women especially are on the market: During March and April

in the U.S., 11.7 million women lost their jobs, compared with 9.6 million men. But

the freelance space, one of the few sectors to thrive as a result of the national crisis,

saw a surge of openings. Freelancer, an online marketplace for such work, reported a

41 percent increase in jobs posted in the second quarter of 2020, compared with

the same period in 2019. This past year, two million people have joined the nearly

57 million Americans who already called themselves freelancers. And the shift doesn’t

show signs of slowing. So if you’re a recent free agent, don’t panic. We’ve got you.

Whether you made the leap or were unexpectedly thrust

into the be-your-own-boss lifestyle, here’s your

no-stress handbook to winning the hustle.

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In mid-March, Samantha Sands, 23, moved

from the Bay Area to San Diego for her new

job as a tech publicist at a small agency. Just

three days after starting, Sands began work-

ing from home. A week and a half later, she

was told her hours would be cut because

clients were pausing and canceling services.

Then, two days after that, she was termi-

nated—becoming one of the more than

22 million Americans who have lost their

job as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Then in June, Sands stumbled upon an

interesting job listing while perusing

LinkedIn and Indeed: her former position.

But instead of being a full-time role, it was a contract gig with

lower compensation. “I can understand it, but it was also frus-

trating,” she says. “They could have had a conversation with me.”

Now she’s working freelance elsewhere while interviewing for

full-time positions. “So many companies don’t know what’s going

to happen in the future, so they’re just looking for contractors

until the country is stable again,” she adds.

Sands’s situation is not unusual: About one third of organi-

zations are eliminating full-time employees in favor of contrac-

tors as a cost-saving measure, according to research firm

Gartner. As companies restructure to accommodate falling

revenue, workforce cuts seem easy: Switching a portion of their

employee base to freelance helps businesses save on salary

costs and pricey benefits.

But once, freelancers did have a few perks

that nine-to-fivers didn’t: Usually, they could

work from home. They could design their

own schedules. In most cases, they could pick

their assignments instead of toiling at the

mercy of a needy boss. In our current remote

world, pretty much everyone works this way.

(Well, some of us still have a needy boss.) The

blurred new reality can be bad for freelanc-

ers: An employer can have two workers doing

essentially the same job, and sometimes what

differentiates them is not what they turn in or

the gains they make for the company but

rather their earnings and insurance status,

potentially putting a contractor in a disadvantaged position. It is

the employer’s responsibility to classify workers correctly and

stick to the boundaries of a contractor or an employee position,

says Michelle S. Strowhiro, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery

and co-lead of the firm’s COVID-19 Employment Task Force.

Unfortunately, especially now, that might not always happen the

way it ideally should.

According to Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of MIT’s

Task Force on the Work of the Future, the pandemic also exposes

what’s known as the shadow labor market—roles without benefits

and rights that may skirt taxes and labor regulations. The social

safety net for these folks (including contract, freelance, and front-

line workers who power the gig economy) is weak, despite some

short-term government protections, including

those offered through the federal stimulus

bill. “Those workers are some of the most vul-

nerable workers in society when it comes to

unemployment shocks,” Reynolds says.

The economic crisis aside, for many, the

jump to freelance isn’t forced; it’s a choice

made to enhance flexibility. However you got

here, Rafael Espinal, executive director of the

Freelancers Union, insists that it’s time for the

government to recognize this cohort as a

priority. “We are in a period of time when the

freelance workforce is regarded as ‘the future

of work,’” he says. “It is the present reality for

many individuals in this country.”

THE GRAY-AREA ECONOMY

By JENNA B IRCH

With more employees working from home, the line

between freelance and full-time is fuzzier than ever.

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a l i m i t e d l i a b i l i t y

c o r p o r a t i o n ( L L C )

m i g h t p r o t e c t y o u r

p e r s o n a l a s s e t s .

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CONSISTENTLY BUDGET FOR INCONSISTENT INCOME.

Income highs and lows are a not-so-glamorous reality of the

lifestyle. Your pay can vary each month, making it difficult to

budget. Worse, the average invoice is paid 45 to 90 days after you

complete your work. Start planning by listing all of your fixed

expenses—monthly and once-a-year bills—to figure out your “nut,”

which is the amount you’ll need to make to just break even. Jackie

Lam suggests reviewing your spending plan to see where you can

cut back; it’ll mean less pressure during those weeks when your

paycheck is light.

P r o T i p : L o g y o u r e x p e n s e s

d a i l y. T r y a c c o u n t i n g s o f t w a r e

l i k e Q u i c k B o o k s S e l f - E m p l o y e d

t o h e l p m o n i t o r m o n e y c o m i n g

i n a n d g o i n g o u t .

DON’T MIX WORK AND PLAY.

Create a dedicated account for business expendi-

tures, like the cost of maintaining your website

domain, and another for rent, food, and fun. The

separation will make things more seamless

come—dun dun dun—tax season.

W E TA P P E D J AC K I E L A M , C R E ATO R O F W E B S I T E

H E Y F R E E L A N C E R , TO H E L P YO U M A N AG E T H E

M O N E Y O F I T A L L . By BRITTNEY OLIVER

Finance Your Freelance

PAY YOUR TAXES. OBVIOUSLY.

Now that you’re freelance, you have to handle

taxes on your own (for full-time staffers, the

employer withholds and pays a portion of them),

including estimated quarterly taxes and self-

employment taxes (like those required by the

Federal Insurance Contributions Act, or FICA),

which cover Social Security and Medicare. Each

time you’re paid, put aside at least 30 percent to

cover tax costs. To avoid penalties, file your taxes

quarterly using IRS Form 1040-ES.

WRITE IT OFF.

If you’re using your home as an office, you’re

eligible for a tax deduction. But the deduction

applies only if your home office is a separate

space just for business—not your couch or

bedroom. Consult an accountant to better

understand your options; it will save you a math

headache and potentially a lot of cash.

KNOW THE FINE PRINT.

In any contract, detail the money you’ll need up

front—negotiate a 10 to 25 percent initial deposit

to secure your time—and/or a cancellation

clause (sometimes called a kill fee, often 25

percent of the total rate) that you’ll get even if

the project falls through. Iron out who is covering

assignment-related expenses before running up a

tab—including travel costs, phone bills, etc.

DON’T VACATION.

Just kidding. But because you won’t have a

guaranteed income during sick time or vacation

anymore, you need to plan for it. If you know that

you need $4,000 a month for living expenses and

you want to have four weeks of sick time and

vacation every year, then you should have $4,000

saved, says Lam.

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Going freelance is no doubt an anxiety-inducing decision:

You have to adjust to a new lifestyle that doesn’t include

structure or guaranteed income and might, at first, feel

lonely (no more tea-spilling cubemates!). But there are

ways to make the move more manageable mentally.

According to productivity expert Lisa Zaslow, founder of

Gotham Organizers, having a job job creates a ripple effect

of external structure. Without that, life can feel chaotic.

“Some people are just naturally better at creating structure

and routines,” she says, but even if you’re a loosey-goosey

creative type, make a schedule and stick to it—and include

everything from exercising to coffee dates to chores. “If you

don’t do that, [work] becomes a blur and your anxiety

grows. You’ll have a tendency to feel like you always should

be working, that there’s always more to do.” To quiet that

nagging voice in your head, respect your own time, just as

you’d expect your boss to.

To maximize your productivity, “match tasks to your

energy level,” says Laura Adams, author of Money Smart

Solopreneur. “If you’re a morning person, do the most dif-

ficult things for your business first. Toward the end of the

day, work on things that are less exacting.” Pacing your

work to your rhythms will sidestep the kind of downtime

that might have arisen when you danced to your boss’s

tune and that you could kill with coworkers at the Keurig.

And last, don’t be afraid to give yourself a gold star or

two: When Zaslow started her business, she set up a list of

criteria separate from what’s on a balance sheet—including

goals like public speaking and fun things she could do

because she had a freelancer’s flexibility. She suggests keep-

ing a file of kudos or praise—like when you get a nice note

from a client. “Chart your wins,” she says. We’re here for it.

FAC E DOW N TH E M E N TA L

BARR I ERS O F TH IS MAJOR CAR E ER SW I TCH .

Head GameBy MARIA RICAPITO

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Your three-step guide to getting your you-know-what together.

STEP 1: F IGURE OUT YOUR HEALTH PLAN.

If you can’t extend the insurance provided by your

former employer via COBRA (some have the option), you

have 60 days to apply in the individual marketplace; miss

the window and you typically have to wait until the next

open-enrollment period. With the Affordable Care Act,

you might get a better deal through the federal govern-

ment’s health-insurance marketplace. And you could

qualify for coverage through Medicaid.

STEP 2: INSURE (AND ENSURE) YOUR FUTURE . No, it’s not morbid; it’s called being prepared: You need

to consider life insurance, plus disability insurance

(which can help with expenses if you’re unable to work).

Visit the Insurance Information Institute’s website or

check out Bankrate to learn the basics.

STEP 3: SAVE , SAVE , AND, OH R IGHT, SAVE . First, set aside money for taxes (remember, 30 percent

of your pay). Then prioritize emergency funds. To plan

for retirement, explore tax-advantaged accounts like an

individual retirement account (IRA), a solo 401(k), or a

Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA. Provided you

don’t have debt (other than a mortgage), 10 percent of

your monthly income should go into nonretirement

savings; put another 10 percent into a retirement plan—

especially if you want to be sipping margaritas on the

beach by the time you’re 65. —M.R.

FREELANCE WITH BENEFITS

P r o T i p : P a i r a h i g h - d e d u c t i b l e

h e a l t h p l a n ( H D H P ) w i t h a h e a l t h

sav ings account (HSA) to he lp pay

f o r q u a l i f y i n g h e a l t h - c a r e c o s t s .

Sources include Kimberly Palmer, a personal-finance expert at

NerdWallet, and Laura Adams, author of Money Smart Solopreneur.

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What happens when a social-justice movement grows so much, it must pivot to become an office-space-occupying, salary-paying, benefits-offering operation? By BRITT PETERSON

THE BIG BUSINESS OF ACTIVISMFor Octavia Smith, the days following George Floyd’s

murder brought grief, fury, and transformation. Smith

(who identifies as gender ambivalent and uses she and

they pronouns interchangeably) is the board president of

the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a four-year-old nonprofit

that pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for those

who can’t afford them. At the time of Floyd’s death, MFF

was operated by two staffers and a rotating cast of volun-

teers on an annual budget of about $100,000. As protests

spread, MFF mobilized, earmarking $10,000 to cover

bail for arrested demonstrators.

But on the Wednesday after Floyd’s murder, a staffer

checked the donations and was shocked at the total:

$8 million. Smith describes their initial response as “just

puzzled. I thought, What is happening? How do they

know [about us]?” By Thursday, following tweets by pub-

lic figures including Kamala Harris that highlighted

MFF’s work, the organization had raised more than $20

million and posted messages urging people to send

money elsewhere. But it kept coming in. By mid-June,

the funds hit nearly $35 million. Suddenly, MFF wasn’t

an obscure shoestring operation; it was a deep-pocketed

nonprofit, accountable to approximately one million

highly engaged donors. MFF didn’t have anywhere close

to the staff needed to use the funds the way the group

was legally required to—for paying cash bail, an arduous

process requiring physically taking money to jail. In fact,

MFF received backlash for spending just $200,000 (all it

was able to) in about two weeks.

Smith, who’d been putting in four to five hours a

month at MFF, took a leave from her full-time job. They

began the hiring process for a new executive director

and signed a strategic communications company to

manage all of the interview requests—many of which

From finance to feminism, today’s high-stakes issues

FROM LEFT: Octavia Smith, board president,

Minnesota Freedom Fund; Tarana Burke, founder,

#MeToo movement; and Leah Greenberg,

cofounder and co-executive director, Indivisible

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“The event comes first; the organization comes after.”

Smith had handled previously, though it initially felt

“cringe-worthy” to the self-described introvert.

Smith is one of the many activists turned organiza-

tional architects birthed from our politically and socially

charged culture. In the past decade, a slew of new groups

have sprung up organically after an issue, a call to action,

or even a wonky spreadsheet has exploded on social

media. To name a few: Black Lives Matter, the Women’s

March, #MeToo, March for Our Lives, Indivisible. Existing

organizations like MFF have been thrust into new terri-

tory. For the people leading these organizations, this

moment of transition can be jarring and challenging.

What do you do when the social-justice movement you’ve

been organizing becomes—sometimes literally over-

night—a large and highly visible company with staff to

pay, donors and social-media followers to answer to, and

a 501(c)(3) tax status to uphold?

According to Rosemary Clark-Parsons, an expert in

digital media and activism at the University of

Pennsylvania, the rapid growth of organizations today is

unprecedented. Whereas advocacy groups of the past

would spend years meeting in church basements and

hashing out their value statement before attempting an

ambitious public event, the Women’s March was master-

minded in a weekend. Black Lives Matter evolved from a

Facebook post to a viral hashtag and eventually an enor-

mously powerful global movement (see page 82). The

original March for Our Lives protest against gun violence

was announced online by several survivors of the

Parkland shooting four days after it happened; the orga-

nization now has national reach. As Clark-Parsons puts it:

“The event comes first; the organization comes after.”

Tarana Burke had been doing the work for years, but

fame was sudden. On October 15, 2017, she discovered

that the “Me Too” phrase she coined in 2006 as a commu-

nity organizer had turned into a viral social-media move-

ment, reinvigorated by a #MeToo post from Alyssa

Milano. Initially, she panicked. Then she went through a

whirlwind year as the public face of the cause—one of

Time magazine’s people of the year, Michelle Williams’s

Golden Globes guest, an in-demand speaker and consul-

tant for other advocacy groups. But around the time of

Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings,

she realized that simply being visible wouldn’t advance

her goals. “Movement celebrity doesn’t move the needle,”

she says. So she formed Me Too International, a global ini-

tiative to end sexual violence, hoping her new promi-

nence and fundraising abilities might help her carry out

the projects she’d been envisioning: campus initiatives at

HBCUs, a survivor’s network, leadership training. And yet

even as she was living out this dream, she was attacked

viciously online, she received death threats, and she had

to move homes. Her stardom was a catalyst and a risk.

“The toughest thing for some of these leaders who

are running major national organizations is that they

started as activists,” says Kat Calvin, founder of Spread

the Vote. Now they’re expected to succeed in completely

new roles—essentially, running a business. “What they

want to be doing is movement work and [to] be in the

streets, but that’s not the job.”

When progressive advocacy group Indivisible decided

to form a national organization out of a widely circulated

Google Doc on congressional aides, Ezra Levin had to hire

an outside consultant to convince his cofounder (and

wife), Leah Greenberg, that she would be effective as co-

executive director. “It was terrifying on every possible

level,” she says of the early months, during which she and

Levin barely slept and each lost 20 pounds. “We hadn’t set

out to build an organization, so we were learning the

skills associated with that”—all while leading rallies,

keeping up with local chapters, and fighting off attacks

from conservative media.

Some groups have brought on more experienced lead-

ers to ease the transition. Time’s Up hired Tina Tchen,

Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff. After the initial

2018 event, March for Our Lives formed an anti-gun-

violence nonprofit and enlisted long-time activist and

start-up whiz Alexis Confer as executive director.

Those at the top face some common challenges. For

one, maintaining authenticity under pressure: How do

you scale up while remaining true to the values that

brought you to the work? Meanwhile, they’re handling

standard start-up-phase workplace issues: the high risk of

burnout, the difficulty of creating professional structures

for and by people who may not be structure-minded. “If

you’re called to this work, you tend to be a little antiestab-

lishment, right? It can feel really hard to be that establish-

ment,” says Amanda Harrington, vice president of

communications at Time’s Up.

Yet many of these new or newly galvanized groups

have thrived, balancing growth and accountability. For

Confer, this has meant hiring—then supporting and men-

toring—a very young staff. She estimates that two thirds

of her employees are under 24, a deliberate choice to

“keep the youth voice front and center in a non-tokenistic

way.” For Burke, it has meant keeping her focus squarely

on Black women and femmes. Black Lives Matter has

remained true to its origins as a grassroots, noncentral-

ized team of local affiliates.

The untraditional career path—moving from organiz-

ing to leading a large organization—may be what makes

these leaders so effective. Community mobilizing, long

devalued work carried out by mostly young people and

women of color, is finally getting its due as an incubator

for executive-level skills: relationship building, cultural

competency, gentle persuasion. This toolbox has long

been dismissed as feminized “soft skills,” as Smith puts it.

Today it’s seen more frequently as the asset it is.

The empowerment of these organizations and their

captains has generated tremendous excitement among

donors and for the leaders themselves. For Smith, MFF’s

rapid growth feels mind-blowing. “It’s one thing when

you’re an individual; it’s just me, Octavia, chilling on my

stoop, imagining it,” she says. “It’s another when you have

the resources and privilege to do something about it.”

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Employees at Zomato, the food-delivery

start-up that recently acquired Uber Eats

in India, can breathe a sigh of relief when

it’s their time of the month. Earlier this

year, the company introduced a policy of

10 days of paid menstrual leave per year for

full-time workers (it has 4,000 across 10

countries), giving people who menstruate—

including transgender and nonbinary

folks—some time off for periods that won’t

cut into vacation or sick days.

While Japan and South Korea already

require all companies and institutions to

offer menstrual-health days, the announce-

ment is still worth celebrating. Access to

menstrual-hygiene supplies and clean bath-

room facilities remains scarce in many parts

of India; it is estimated that as many as one

in five young girls there drop out of school as

soon as they start menstruating, curtailing

their careers.

Menstruation is a well-documented but

little-discussed economic obstacle. A study

estimated that if women employees in the

Philippines were out one day a month for

menstruation-related reasons, the eco-

nomic loss to the country would be

$13 million (U.S.) per year. And according to

a 2017 study of more than 32,000 menstruat-

ing women in the Netherlands, employees

are missing out on about nine days of pro-

ductivity per year by attempting to work

while coping with their periods. For those

who miss work during their cycle, only 20

percent feel comfortable telling their super-

visor why. Openly addressing and accommo-

dating this reproductive-health reality in the

workplace is just one step in dismantling the

global stigma around periods. “It is our job

to make sure that we make room for our bio-

logical needs while not lowering the bar for

the quality of our work,” Zomato founder

and CEO Deepinder Goyal told employees.

This destigmatization can easily incubate

in startup culture, says Chelsea VonChaz,

founder and CEO of #HappyPeriod, which

works to improve menstrual equity. “I ask

entrepreneurs to be the change you want to

see and to create change by implementing

menstrual leave for their employees, just like

maternity leave,” she says.

Organizing employee resource groups

around reproductive health can help move

corporate policy, says Farzana Nayani, a

diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist.

Conversations like this can be extended to

those dealing with miscarriages or hormone-

replacement therapy. For workers today,

having the flexibility to stay home while

menstruating, and getting paid to do so,

could make all the difference in reversing

the cycle of financial loss.

A Bright SpotG O O D N E W S F O R M E N S T R U A T I N G W O R K E R S . P E R I O D . By MARA SANTILLI

THE INSPIRATION:

As a high schooler in

Lenexa, Kansas,

Erin Smith turned a

binge-watching session

into a medical innovation.

She was a fan of the TV

show Lie to Me, which

features a scientist who

reads faces to see if peo-

ple are lying. In videos of

Parkinson’s patients,

Smith noticed that their

smiles had a flat affect

and wondered if facial

expressions could

also indicate health.

THE BIG IDEA:

“I became super capti-

vated by this idea of

being able to use facial

expressions to externally

monitor changes in

the brain,” she says. She

developed Faceprint,

a video-based early

detection system for

neurological disorders.

THE RESULTS:

Smith, 20, is a Stanford

sophomore studying

computer science

and neuroscience. Her

latest project (in clinical

trials at Stanford Medical

School) uses a smart-

phone or web app

to analyze videos of

patients undergoing

neurological exams.

She’s excited by the

“feedback loop” this cre-

ates between patients at

home and clinicians,

especially in these

pandemic times.

ERIN SMITHUSES SELFIES TO SUSS

OUT CEREBR AL SECRETS

ONE WOMAN,

ONE BRILLIANT IDEA

GENIUS!

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This month, Karolina, 28, shares how she and her fiancé are saving for their destination wedding in

Poland, which was delayed due to the pandemic and is now taking place in October 2021. Sallie

Krawcheck, founder of female-focused financial-planning service Ellevest, and Emily Forrest, in-house

planning expert at wedding-service platform Zola, offer their tips for nuptial cost savings.

The BudgetI N OUR NEW COLUMN, WE BREAK DOWN ONE READER ’S SPEND ING PLAN FOR AN IMPORTANT I NVESTMENT.

This venue has built-inoutdoor beauty, so consider cutting some florals and mixing in paper lanterns (whichare less expensive) for a romantic and autumnalvibe. —E.F.

These flowers are

in season in the fall,

which will keep the

price low. Because

sunflowers are

naturally full, you

can also give each

bridesmaid one to

carry instead of a

bouquet. For your

centerpieces, ask

your florist to round

down the cost of

each to the nearest

$100 or $50 and to fill

them out with more

greenery to justify

the discount. —E.F.

Set up a monthly

automatic transfer from

your checking account(s)

to your wedding savings

account. Divide the

amount you need to

save by the number of

months remaining

until your wedding.

That number should

be your monthly

auto transfer.

—S.K.

Many couples register for money in addition to

a traditional gift registry. It’s 100 percent okay

to add a dream-wedding or honeymoon fund

to help with those costs. —Emily Forrest

Keep this money in

a high-yield savings

account that’s FDIC

or NCUA insured.

Since the wedding

is about a year

away, it’s risky to

invest this money;

if the markets

were to take a

downturn,

you most

likely wouldn’t

have enough

time for them to

recover. —Sallie

Krawcheck

There are always

going to be

unexpected expenses

like postage, your

marriage license, and

taxes. Any fees you

can reduce now can

go toward last-minute

costs. —E.F.

If it looks like you’re

going to have to carry a

balance on a credit

card to cover costs,

consider opening

a credit card with a

0 percent introductory

rate on purchases.

Typically, that rate will

last only a few months,

then jump. Ideally,

you’d pay off the card

before the promotional

period ends. Otherwise,

it could cost you a lot

in interest. —S.K.

Karolina ordered her cake from

a local bakery. It cost $260.

Karolina & Andy’s

Wedding Budget

Amount Budgeted: $30,000

Total Anticipated Cost So Far:

$31,075

Income $144,600

post-tax, as a couple

Wedding Savings $25,000

(over two years)

Guest Count 100

A Few Key Items:

Venue $11,500

Florist $1,560

Sunflowers and wildflowers for about 10

table centerpieces, plus b

ridesmaids’ bouquets

and flowers for the venue’s outd

oor space

Flights and Travel $2,000

Hotels $1,820

In Poland, it’s customary to cover

your

guests’ accommodations. W

e’re taking care of

that for 60 people.

Invitations $100

Designed by a friend

1 Polish złoty equals about

$0.26. All costs converted to U.S. currency.

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Quick, what do you think of when you hear “Chanel No. 5”? Classic? Iconic? French? Bien sûr. But the perfume and its latest frontwoman, Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard,

are here to usher the 99-year-old best seller into the future, as evidenced in the whimsical new campaign choreographed by Ryan Heffington (whose résumé includes

Sia’s “Chandelier” video). Turn for more from Cotillard herself.

FRENCH-GIRL BEAUTY

Ready for her close-up:

Marion Cotillard gets

glam on set for the new

Chanel No. 5 campaign.

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Revlon’s famous lipstick shade of the same name has been a beauty staple since 1953, and this holiday season it appears the stone fruit is inspiring another batch of juicy, wearable reds. The newest addition to Charlotte Tilbury’s Walk of No Shame range is an unexpected red eyeliner, Deborah Lippmann’s seasonal polish offerings—including the shade Cherries Jubilee—are berry toned, and Marc Jacobs Beauty gave its festive packaging a fruity makeover. —Taylore Glynn

T H E T R E N D

Marie Claire: What was

your early impression of

Chanel No. 5?

Marion Cotillard: The first

time I smelled it, I was kind

of mesmerized right away by

the mystery, the complexity. It

was intimidating at first when

I was a kid, but then pretty

quickly, I started to wear it.

I thought it was so amazing

that a perfume could become

unique on each person.

MC: How do you wear it

today?

Cotillard: I love the sensual-

ity of the gesture, of having

the bottle upside down and

just putting some on the cap.

Then I put it behind my ears

and on my wrists, and I am

the first person to smell it

in the morning. Quite simple.

MC: Care to share some

other scent memories?

Cotillard: The sense of

smell is very developed in me.

Hot sand and pine trees, for

example, really take me back

to vacations with my family

when I was a kid, and it’s very

comforting.

MC: In the new No. 5 cam-

paign, you sing! You dance!

Tell us about the character.

Cotillard: I often choose

film characters that are very

far from me. This character

is someone who could actu-

ally be me. It was interesting

to create her with ingredients

that are part of me and also

universal ingredients, like

the emotion you go through

when you’re in love. Brian

Heffington, who’s just a

maestro of acting with dance,

put in this choreography the

joyfulness, the playfulness,

the sensuality, the energy that

I thought was really amazing

to embody. —Ying Chu

FRENCH-GIRL BEAUTY(continued)

T H E I N N O V A T I O N

Cherries in the Snow

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like AHAs and salicylic acid to help promote cell turnover, even tone,

and reduce dark spots for a smooth canvas. —T.G.

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TILBURY

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AUGUSTINUS BADER

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CHANEL

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TOP LEFT: Soiree scenes

from Breakfast at Tiffany’s,

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This year may not have given us much to toast, but there’s cer-

tainly one thing to celebrate: 2021 is upon us. And why not ring

it in with a splash, even if your festivities take the form of more

intimate affairs this time around? The beauty world couldn’t

agree more, providing plenty of glimmer and shimmer and

mood-lifting material for the holidays.

One of the most inspired iterations is Byredo’s dazzling new

makeup—a playful collection of shadows, lipsticks, and bright

Colour Sticks meant to be applied anywhere. A draw for those

staying in: They look as good on your vanity as they do on your

face. Beloved Kardashian makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic’s

debut line provides a range of chicly wearable skin and eye

beautifiers; I’m especially partial to the Secret Glow balm and

Master Metals shadows, which go on softly when applied dry or

high-drama when mixed with the Metals Manipulator. Araceli

Beauty is serving Tequila highlighters, laced

with hydrating agave oil, to keep complexions

gleaming into the frosty months. Eyelashes

from Loveseen, a new brand cofounded by

former J.Crew creative director Jenna Lyons,

are the easy-to-apply falsies no one will suspect

you’re wearing. If you’re hosting, set your guests

at ease with Loewe’s soothing Scent of Mari-

huana candle. And for some personal comfort,

consider a nostalgic scent. Mine: Calvin Klein

Eternity Eau Fresh—a bright riff on the original

of my youth that feels new yet cozily familiar.

Cheers to the future!

THE AFTER-PARTY

1. CALVIN KLEIN Eternity Eau Fresh for Her, $73. 2. DIOR Diorific Lipstick in Dark Sparkle, $40. 3. BYREDO Eyeshadow in Syren, $70. 4. KILIAN Roses on Ice, $195. 5. CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Nail Colour in Multimiss, $50. 6. KITSCH X JUSTINE MARJAN “Queen” bobby pin, $29. 7. ARACELI

BEAUTY Tequila Highlighter, $18. 8. AURELIA CBD Super Serum, $96. 9. PAT MCGRATH LABS Divinyl Lip Shine in Temptress, $36. 10. MILK MAKEUP Kush Liquid Eyeliner, $22. 11. LOVESEEN Inez lashes, $22. 12. MAKEUP BY MARIO Master Metallics Palette, $48. 13. 19-69 Miami Blue, $182. 14. COVERGIRL Exhibitionist Lid Paint in Amaretto, $8. 15. MAYBELLINE NEW YORK Lifter Gloss in Crystal, $9. 16. BYREDO Colour Sticks in Kumato, Ultramagnetic, and Medium Blue, $30 each. 17. LOEWE Scent of Marihuana candle, $175.

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RISE & SHINEWhen I’m doing a movie, sometimes call times can be really early. When I’m writing and recording music, I usually don’t even start until the evening, so I can sleep in later. The first thing I always do is drink a giant glass of water.

MORNING MAINTENANCE I’ve never been the person to spend too much time getting ready unless it’s for work or if a makeup artist is helping me get ready. I am notorious for driving my makeup artist crazy because he always wants more time than I give him. For skincare, I keep it pretty simple, with a good moisturizer and sunscreen.

A.M. HAIR SITUATION Big and messy. I am kind of into it, though.

POWER STARTUsually some version of an iced coffee or green tea.

ZOOM BEAUTY HACK I don’t care too much; I just get on [Zoom calls] and try not to overthink it. If anything, I’ll throw on one of the Rare Beauty With Gratitude dewy tinted lip balms or dot the Soft Pinch Liquid Blush on my cheeks to wake them up a bit. Takes me 30 seconds to do both.

There’s really no arguing

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ate from Grand Prairie, Texas,

with 194 million Instagram

followers (outnumbering

those for KKW and Beyoncé

by millions). So, when she

announced her latest project—

Rare Beauty, a brand that

she says puts “the emphasis

on the community and

being there for each

other and not trying to be

perfect”—on Instagram back

in February, it was hardly

surprising that it racked up

over a million followers

ahead of its September

launch. Here, Gomez shares

a day in her life.

Selena GomezSIGNATURE FACEThese days, I love a strong brow. The Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Pencil & Gel is great because it’s dual ended, so I can control how bold I want it to be. I usually use our Liquid Touch Brightening Concealer to make myself look more awake. And I’ve been practicing my liquid liner and have gotten so much better with our Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner. It glides so easily—no dragging or tugging on your eyelids. Also, a bright lip.

MANTRA Surround yourself with people you can learn from.

WORKOUT MIX I don’t love working out, but I find myself going on YouTube and doing workout videos—anything from old-school workout videos to more current ones.

NIGHT-OUT LOOKWell…there really hasn’t been any going out this year. But, if I already have a little something on, it doesn’t take me more than 10 to 15 minutes to add to it. I’ll throw on liquid liner and a bright lip. (Rare Beauty Lip Soufflé Matte Lip Cream in Inspire is my go-to red.) And I actually created our Blot & Glow Touch-Up Kit from nights out with my friends. As the night would go on, we would just add some powder to our faces, but we ended up looking a little cakey. This little kit is the size of an iPhone and holds these cute blotting papers and a puff filled with some radiant powder so you can blot away the grease and then add a touch of powder. It’s my favorite thing.

GAME-TIME SOUNDTRACK Depends on my mood. It’s a wide range, from Bob Dylan to Kid Cudi, Kacey Musgraves to Summer Walker.

EVENING WIND-DOWNI love the ritual of a bath in the evening—very relaxing.

LIGHTS OUT[I usually go to sleep] around midnight. The last things I do are give my two dogs some kisses and hugs and usually watch an episode of Friends or Will & Grace.

—As told to Ying Chu

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In lush Nordic forests, potent skincare ingredients grow untamed. TAYLORE GLYNN is called to the (virtual) harvest.

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for skin.) “They’re all survivors,” says

Isohanni. “A well-kept secret.”

Once they’re plucked from the flatland

by hand during a short harvest period,

Isohanni tells me, the cloudberries are

broken down and their juice is collected.

The leftover seeds are then crushed and

processed to release their potent oil,

which has the ability to reduce water

loss (a necessity in the frigid north) and

protect skin from environmental aggres-

sors. The bounty is precious: It takes 130

kilograms of berries to collect just one

kilogram of seed oil. But fear not, there’s

plenty to go around. All of Finland’s

vegetation—think mushrooms, fruit,

and trees—grows uninhibited, and it’s

collected in the same way. A nationwide

freedom called Everyman’s Right ensures

that residents and visitors can trek to for-

ests, wetlands, and even private property

to forage whatever grows wild, so long as

they don’t maim the plants themselves.

“Nordic countries are typically quite

green-thinking. We want to be conscious

of nature and feel we must try to protect

it,” says Isohanni.

On one of the first chilly nights of

the year at home in New York City, I

give myself the full Nordic treatment.

After cleansing, I massage a few drops of

Lumene’s best-selling vitamin-C-packed

Glow Boost Essence into my cheeks to

imbue a clarified glow. A slick layer of

Aqua Serum, infused with hyaluronic

acid and native birch sap, bathes my skin

in so much hydration that I skip my go-to

moisturizer altogether. Finally, I close my

eyes and spritz the fine, sweet-smelling

cloudberry-infused mist over my com-

plexion and dream of a Finnish summer.

While visions of reindeer and a snowy,

pastel Helsinki arouse wanderlust,

there’s delicious reason to dream of

green Nordic summers too. Each July, a

mad rush of citizens and tourists alike

descend upon Lapland, in Finland’s

northernmost region, to collect one

of the country’s coveted exports: the

cloudberry. The fruit looks as whimsical

as it sounds: tiny, marmalade hued, and

kind of adorable. While the fresh berry

is typically a summer pleasure, Finns

find ways to indulge in its taste all year

round. Seeds and leaves are ground

into teas, skins and juice are macer-

ated with sugar into jams, and whole

berries are steeped in alcohol to make

local liqueurs. But the by-products I’m

most interested in aren’t for ingesting; I

want to learn about the potent skincare

products and makeup made by Finnish

beauty brand Lumene.

“Cloudberry contains naturally

occurring vitamin C—twice the amount

of oranges—as well as ellagitannin, an

antioxidant that brightens skin and gives

it a glow,” says Tiina Isohanni, who does

research and development at the brand.

The petite yet powerful fruit has been

imparting its benefits to Lumene’s se-

rums, creams, and cleansers for decades.

There’s a reason the region’s indig-

enous ingredients are so potent and

adaptable, and it’s the juxtaposition of

Finland’s seasons: vibrant summers with

24 hours of sunshine at times, and harsh,

extended winters with six or less. These

extreme periods of light and darkness

cause plants to produce excess anti-

oxidants, which enable reinforcement

against the elements. (They do the same

1. LUMENE Nordic-C Arctic Berry Oil-Cocktail, $25. 2. LUMENE Arctic Hydra Care Moisture & Relief Rich Eye Cream, $27. 3. LUMENE Nordic-C Glow Boost Essence, $30. 4. LUMENE Arctic Spring Water Enriched Facial Mist, $16.

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SHARP EDGES The evolution of iconic baby-hair looks

1973Sylvia RobinsonDuring performances and appearances, the singer and cofounder of Sugar Hill Records showcased face-framing wispy baby hairs.

1975Bern Nadette Stanis The actress accented her Afro puffs and braided styles with laid baby hairs while playing Thelma Evans on the hit TV series Good

Times.

1945Ella Fitzgerald The trendsetting jazz singer always stunned in an array of pin- curled looks and a pulled-back hairline.

1925Josephine Baker The dancer, singer, and activist poses for a portrait wearing finger waves featuring an intricately styled hairline of swirls.

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loops, and swirls of textured baby hair today.

2020Alicia Keys

This year’s Grammy Awards host emceed the ceremony in swirling baby hairs dappled with gems. “Alicia and I are obsessed with glorious baby hairs,” said her hairstylist Nai’vasha Johnson.

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2018 Yara Shahidi The actress and activist adorns her sleek low pony with a trio of face-framing loops.

2019BeyoncéThe singer stunned in finger-wave-patterned cornrows, subtly laid baby hairs, and curled sideburns on the red carpet at the L.A. premiere of The Lion King.

2015FKA TwigsThe singer never ceases to amaze with her mesmerizing hairstyles. At the Brit Awards, she complemented her twisted hairdo with a curvilinear hairline.

1999Rozonda Thomas As Chilli of the girl group TLC, Thomas was often called the baby-hair queen for her bold designs.

While hosting the 62nd-annual Grammy Awards

ceremony in January, an almost barefaced Alicia Keys

accessorized in a way that screamed Black Girl Magic.

The singer-songwriter graced the stage with her hair cornrowed

back into a low bun, complete with jewel-encrusted baby hairs.

The act of strategically styling the finely textured strands

along the hairline, or laying baby hairs, as it’s called within the

Black and Latinx communities, has a profound history that

dates back to at least the Roaring Twenties. It first emerged as

a means of acceptance: Black women wanted to give the

appearance of “groomed” hair in order to fit European beauty

standards. Notable entertainers of the time, like Josephine

Baker and Esther Jones (credited as the inspiration for Betty

Boop), were known for wearing their hair short and in uniform

finger waves, with dramatic swirls framing the face. The

intentional placement of swoops and loops paved the way for a

multitude of uniquely styled baby-hair looks in modern times.

As with many phenomena of Black culture, appropriated

iterations of the technique have, unfortunately, been presented

as a quote-unquote hot new hair trend; think Katy Perry’s

gelled-down hairline in her 2014 music video “This Is How We

Do” or the Fall/Winter 2015 Givenchy runway of mostly white

models wearing their strands plastered to their foreheads in a

show that was themed “Chola Victorian.”

For many women of color, taking the time to set baby hairs is

a highly regarded act—how we express ourselves, the cherry on

top of the perfect hairdo. “I like my baby heir with baby hair and

Afros,” declared Beyoncé in “Formation.” For Lauraine Bailey, the

hairstylist behind the photos here, incorporating edge styling

and African-derived aesthetics into her work is a form of artistic

expression and excellence. “It says to me that I’m paying

attention to detail and not leaving any stone unturned,” she says.

What we know for sure is a) baby hair is beautiful, and

b) whether you like your hairline slicked down into swirling

shapes or prefer to keep it free and untamed, there are abso-

lutely no rules to styling—but there is inspiration.

To see these looks brought to life, plus how-tos for two more

styles, visit marieclaire.com/baby-hair.

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Though we’re not face-

to-face when we meet,

I can still feel Welch’s

presence—ethereal and warm, like a be-

nevolent ghost that tidies your kitchen

while you’re at the grocery store. We’re in

separate time zones: me in New York City

and she at home in London, but the divide

matters less than ever.

“Time is a weird, swishy blob right now.

I’m naturally hermitty, but this is even a lot

for me. It feels so fruitless. Structure? Why?

Time is meaningless!” she declares. I can’t

help but agree: This call is taking place

in June, when social distancing due to

COVID-19 is still in full effect. But despite

isolation, Welch has found purpose within

the time vacuum. She’s coordinated a col-

lective poem with fans worldwide through

Instagram, connected virtually yet deeply

with friends—“All this makes you realize

who you really love and how you’ll never

take those people for granted again,” she

says—and dropped “Light of Love” (a track

Rock star FLORENCE WELCH has spent years selling

out stadiums, but now she’s embracing solitude. Here,

she talks aging gracefully, her new gig with Gucci, and the complicated art

of sitting still. BY TAYLORE GLYNN

QUEEN OF PEACE

Welch is one of the

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made for but left off of her most recent

album) to bring support to the U.K.’s health-

care workers. The lyrics are as compelling

as ever, the song’s subject determined not

to hide from the darkness at hand, an effort

Welch has been practicing for months.

“I’m not the most mentally stable per-

son, so I’ve really struggled,” she admits.

“It’s been hard, I think, especially so for

people who are addicts and don’t have their

support groups around.” (The singer herself

is six years sober.) “It’s been a challenge to

accept stillness. I’ve figured out that so

much of my personality is based on leav-

ing—packing up and going to a new place

so I don’t have to deal with myself or my

stuff. I usually just go. And now I really have

to sit with myself.”

Her self-exploration extends to the phys-

ical too. Welch says 2020 has left her feeling

“about 10 years old, and also about 134,”

both inside and out, and that’s changed

how she approaches her beauty routine.

“Wearing thick stage makeup for shows

and traveling isn’t great for my skin, so it

was good to not wear any for a bit. But after

months of not using it, putting on makeup

again felt creative and like some nice self-

care. Self-expression is so important, and

it’s helping me feel good about myself,” she

says. “And, like, I’m 33! I need blush!”

She also lets me in on a personal beau-

ty crusade: “I’m on a quest to bring eye

bags back in. Please try to find a way to

make them fashionable,” she pleads. “I

have genetically enormous eye bags that

I’m trying to embrace. I remember having

big debates with my team about it with

all my album covers, especially for How

Big, How Blue, How Beautiful [released

in 2015],” she recalls. “If we’d left my

bags totally unretouched, I’d have looked

exhausted, but I didn’t want to edit them

out completely either. That’s my face!”

These days, she’s more at peace with

aging, especially after filming the cam-

paign for Gucci’s newest fragrance, Bloom

Profumo di Fiori, alongside Hollywood

icon Anjelica Huston.

“Getting to know a woman like Anjelica

gives you a different idea of what female

beauty is and how it’s not all tied up in how

young you are. That’s incredibly inspiring,”

says Welch. “But I quite like getting older

now. I feel like my face is catching up to

itself. I always kind of looked ‘old,’ even

when I was a kid. The older I get, the more

my face seems to make sense.” There’s one

argument for not fighting time.

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Once upon a weekday (or weekend, because what’s time

anymore?), there was Scarlett Johansson, sipping, sipping

a margarita.

All good so far, eh?

But, alas, like most things in 2020, it just went bad from there.

A call interrupted her cocktail hour. The word: The release of

Black Widow, the sure-shot blockbuster starring Johansson

and the magnetic Marvel newcomer Florence Pugh and direct-

ed by Cate Shortland—three power women collaborating on

a power-women film, asserting their ascendance—was being

delayed. It was deflating news, Johansson recalls, though not out

of the blue.

Another margarita, you say? Yes, please, and thank you.

“I’d been talking to Kevin Feige”—the president of Marvel

Studios—“about it, and our fellow producers, just trying to un-

derstand what the landscape was,” says Johansson, 36, with a

little resignation now in that unmistakable voice but a little

pragmatism too. “We’re all eager to get the movie out, but more

important than anything, everybody wants the experience to

feel safe, to have people be able to really feel confident about

sitting in an enclosed theater.”

We’re on a conference call, because that’s what you do these

days—no lunch. That or Zoom, which we did a few weeks ago.

Pugh, 24, is with us on the line. Also resigned, also pragmatic. She

had just flown from London back to L.A., where she lives, when

she got the call.

“I think I probably had a hunch,” she says. “It seemed to me

all the fun of summer, and everybody being outside and finally

having some relaxed rules, caught up with everyone, obviously,

because of the virus. I’m sad that people don’t get to watch it for

another half year, but I wasn’t majorly upset because it’s impor-

tant to look after people right now.”

What they’re saying is, the postponement of a superhero

film isn’t the apocalypse. Not this abysmal year nor any other.

But ain’t it the pits? Who wouldn’t want to be sitting in a dark-

ened theater right now, loaded with a bucket of fake-buttered

popcorn, big soda, sinking into a seat as heart-thumping Marvel

action unfolds on the screen?

And this, of all movies—one with strong female characters,

strong female actors, a strong female director. A movie that’s both

fun and important.

So what happens now?

SCENE I I : Th e Mo v i e !We first chatted over computer screens. Pugh, after many

months grounded by COVID-19, had traveled to London and

Zoomed from her office, a dimly lit room with framed art

hung high on the walls and opened boxes for a Casio key-

board and stand—check her YouTube for her acoustic-guitar

performances as Flossie Rose—perched on a cabinet.

Johansson was a few minutes late, on account of picking up

her daughter from a rained-out day camp, and joined the call

from her New York home. It was evening in London, and Pugh,

who wore a white T-shirt that read “Love” and several thin

necklaces, had poured herself a generous glass of red wine.

When Scarlett appeared on the call, Pugh yelped, “Oh my

goodness, there she is!”

Johansson, dressed in athleisure and fresh faced, smiled back.

And for a few minutes, the two stars—one of whom’s $56 million

salary last year reportedly made her the highest paid actress in

the world—seemed no more than two good friends catching up.

They teased each other about their choice of Zoom settings.

Johansson chose her bedroom and was backdropped by a tufted

suede headboard and wallpaper patterned with birds and leaves.

“I like to switch up. Keep people guessing. Make it look

like I’ve gone somewhere,” she said. “When I’ve gone nowhere,

obviously.”

As for the movie we shall not see until May 7, 2021, at the earli-

est, they got into it pretty quick. They beamed, talking about the

film, recalling the toil and labor. Yep, the hard work. Ask them:

This superhero stuff is much lights-camera-action and flashbulb

premieres…until it’s not.

In one particular scene, our heroines—Natasha Romanoff

(Johansson) and Yelena Belova (Pugh)—dash across a rooftop

in Budapest. It’s supposed to be winter. The stunt calls for

them to leap down the side of a building with a helicopter whir-

ring overhead.

Sounds spectacular.

But the fact was, it was a summer day that felt as though a

Marvel god had shoved Earth halfway closer to the sun.

The reality was, what was at most a few seconds of high

movie action demanded hours atop that building and dressing

in the antithesis of weather-appropriate gear, a leather jacket

and leather boots—and in Johansson’s case, a wig and fur hat.

The corporeal truth was, both stars wore safety harnesses as

uncomfortable as Victorian corsets and contended with little

stunt gel pads (worn under the costume to soften falls) that kept

sweat-sliding from their hips to almost their ankles.

And as if the day’s shoot weren’t enough of a movie-making

gauntlet, their director, Shortland, strolled onto the set in a

summer dress, brimmed hat, and Stan Smiths, took a gander at

her stars sweating—broiling—and teased, “Oh, isn’t it just love-

ly out today?”

It’s a nice ha-ha of an anecdote—three women doing their

jobs, two melting in the heat while one jokes—the kind of story

you tell on Jimmy Fallon. (“And these little pads we have to wear

under our costume kept sliding down!”) But the truth is, it’s the

kind of real-life scene we still don’t see often enough.

“I don’t want to candy-coat anything,” said Johansson, mirth

pressed out of her voice, her eyes pointed at her ceiling, “because

it’s a challenge in a male-dominated industry to tell a woman’s

story from the perspective of a female director and focus on the

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heart of something that is inherently female.”

There will be grand box-office expectations for Black Widow,

COVID or not; let us not forget that Avengers: Endgame, the last

Marvel film in which Johansson appeared, grossed $2.79 billion

at the box office, making it the highest grossing film of all time—

not to mention the onus to make something that inspires and

empowers girls and women. And it’s quite possible that no one

knows the feeling of lofty forecasts better than the star who

kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“It’s really hard to be the number one of the call sheet in your

own franchise,” says Robert Downey Jr. “It is a crucible. But

there’s something about these characters that makes you rise to

the occasion, and if there’s anybody that the rest of us have had no

doubt from jump about whether or not they can easily carry the

mantel on their own, outside of this conglomerate, it’s Scarlett.”

SCENE I I I : Ch o i c e sIn the here and now, Johansson is deliberate and careful in

choosing her roles. And those choices have yielded dynamic

performances: the complicated Nicole Barber in Marriage Story.

Steadfast women like Rosie in Jojo Rabbit. Even the romantic

Barbara in Don Jon. The thing she’s chasing these days is the surge

she feels when she gets to do something

she’s never done before.

She didn’t always get there. Then

happened the boon of playing Catherine,

a girl finding her place in the world as a

woman, in a 2010 Broadway revival of

the Arthur Miller play A View From the

Bridge. “I was able to really get strong,”

she says. “I was able to get muscles, as an

actor, that I hadn’t really had the oppor-

tunity to exercise. It was totally invigo-

rating. I thought, you know, I’m never

going to go back. I’m not going to go

backwards. I just have to keep striving

toward this feeling.” Johansson won a

Tony Award for her performance.

The very next year brought Black

Widow, a role that has helped make her

the highest grossing actress of all time

(a reported $14.4 billion) and given her

the power to challenge the boundaries

of what a woman can be on-screen. “I

look for women who I feel I can relate

to on some level, that I have empathy

for. That’s a bit complicated, obviously, because you can have

empathy for people in different ways, and for different reasons.

But if I can empathize with a character, no matter what their

moral compass is, then that’s important to me,” she says.

Pugh shares that mindset. “Similar to Scarlett, it’s always been,

kind of, number-one top priority for me to find women who are

totally fascinating and totally powerful in their own way,” she

says. “I really want to recognize the women I play, whether it’s

that I recognize my mom in her, or my gran in her, or my sister in

her. I want to play complex and confusing characters.”

The keen choices Pugh has made up to this point include

Cordelia, daughter to Anthony Hopkins’s King Lear, in a 2018

film adaptation and a spectacularly traumatized student in last

summer’s horror hit Midsommar. Her role as the bratty young-

est sister, Amy, in Little Women garnered her more attention—

and an Oscar nomination.

Black Widow has the potential to transform her from ac-

claimed actress to global star.

In 2021.

SCENE IV: Qua r a n t i n eI ask Johansson if she’s been outside much.

She laughs. “Do I sound like I haven’t? My boyfriend [SNL’s

Colin Jost] this morning was like, ‘I think you’re losing your

mind,’” she says. “I’m like, ‘Oh, yes. It’s gone, pieces of everything

breaking off, for a long time now.’ I actually, very fortunately, have

been able to go outside because I live in an area that has a lot of

nature. I feel so grateful for that.”

When Pugh took her first flight during the pandemic, she ar-

rived at LAX two hours early, and in her roaming she beheld

walls and billboards stripped of advertisements, shops and

cafés were boarded up and closed, and everyone was moving

slowly, leaving wide berths. “It was a bit like the beginning of

28 Days Later, or The Walking Dead, when he was getting out

of the hospital,” says Pugh. “It creeped me out.”

This makes Johansson think of

her first trip to the grocery store

right after lockdown. “It looked like

the full Armageddon had hit,” she

says. “I remember just feeling really

scared and unsure, like everybody, of

what was happening.”

Johansson is also a producer, and

she had a production office in New

York with a small staff. It has re-

mained closed, with employees con-

tinuing to work from home.

“There’s no way, really, to do my job

at all,” she says. “People keep trying to

encourage me to participate in alter-

native ways of filmmaking or produc-

tion, but it’s just very hard for me to

wrap my head around it because for

me it’s such a community. It’s a com-

munal effort to make stuff, and it’s

challenging. I don’t know if I could do

it. I’m not sure.”

With how easy these two com-

miserate, you’d think they have a

long history. In truth, their sisterhood began during rehears-

als, kicked off when Pugh slogged in on three hours of sleep

and weary from work travel. It was less than optimal circum-

stances for an intro, though it would’ve been nerve-racking in

any circumstance.

Pugh was excited, nervous, and exhausted.

“You seemed very self-assured and curious and willing,”

Johansson tells Pugh. “And you were very present there.”

Being present on the day they met meant doing trust exer-

cises. Imagine them—2020 Oscar nominees both (Johansson for

leading and supporting actress for Marriage Story and Jojo Rab-

bit and Pugh for supporting actress in Little Women)—falling into

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“I really want to

recognize the women I

play, whether

it’s that I recognize my

mom in her, or

my gran in her, or my

sister in her. I want to

play complex and

confusing characters,”

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women—Alicia Garza,

Patrisse Cullors, and

Opal Tometi—in 2013,

after George Zimmer-

man was acquitted of

murdering Florida teen

Trayvon Martin. What began

as an online campaign with

the spontaneous hashtag

#BlackLivesMatter is now an unstoppable

international phenomenon, with women as

a major driving force. As Garza, also a

Marie Claire contributing editor, notes in

her new book, The Purpose of Power: “Hashtags

do not start movements—people do.”

Here, meet eight extraordinary women from

around the world who have transformed their

personal experiences into activism and empower-

ment in their nations—and who are determined

to keep fighting for racial justice on a global scale.

The Black Lives Matter protests that swept across America after

the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25,

2020, were the largest in the country’s long history of mass

movements for civil rights and racial justice. At least 15 million

Americans demonstrated in 2,500 towns and cities, setting off a

tidal wave of support. Hundreds of thousands of people in

London, Sydney, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Tokyo,

and many other communities took to the streets in solidarity.

Captured on video, the raw power of Floyd’s horrifying

death brought to the surface local issues

of racial violence and inequality,

inspiring people to rise up against

what was happening in their

home countries too.

Racial and gender

inequality often negatively

reinforce each other,

which makes being both

Black and female a

double hurdle in nearly

every nation. The Black

Lives Matter movement

was founded by three Black

Over the past four years, 35-year-

old Assa Traoré has turned her quest

to achieve justice for her brother

Adama’s death into a passionate

high-profile campaign to end racial discrimination throughout the country

and beyond. Her image has become so recognizable that French R&B artist

Mallaury wrote a song titled “Assa.” “I wish I had the courage of Assa,” go

the lyrics. “Head high, arms raised, you lead the fight.”

Traoré is quick to say the struggle is not about her: “My brother Adama

is not here, so I have to be his voice and the voice of resistance to the police

violence that killed him.” In July 2016, Adama ran off when Parisian police

randomly stopped him and one of his brothers in the street and asked

to see their IDs. Adama didn’t have his with him at the time. “It was his

24th birthday, and he had gone out to celebrate,” Traoré says, speaking on

WhatsApp from her apartment in southern Paris. Of Malian descent, the

Traoré family knew all about racial profiling. According to the Defender of

Rights, France’s national human-rights group, Black and Arab men are sub-

jected to identity-card spot checks 20 times more often than white men are.

“Three gendarmes chased Adama and pinned him down with the full

force of their bodies, a combined weight of 250 kilos [551 pounds],” says

Traoré, who was out of the country when it happened. Adama died about

two hours later in a police compound. The coroner ruled that the cause of

death was an infection, and the three policemen were not charged.

Traoré quit her job as a special-education teacher to launch the

Truth for Adama Committee. Certain that Adama was asphyxiated, she

ordered an independent autopsy, which confirmed her belief. “My blood

froze when I heard George Floyd saying, ‘I can’t breathe,’ because it was

like hearing my own brother,” she says. “Witnesses said he used the ex-

act same phrase.”

While battling a legal maze for Adama, Traoré and her team of about 15

friends and relatives have also traveled around France visiting poor Black

communities. “It’s crucial to involve people at a grassroots level, to let them

know they have a legitimate right to live without racism or brutality,” she

says. Her lobbying of the authorities has made progress too. In June 2020,

the interior ministry announced plans to phase out choke holds as a

police restraint technique. (Less than

Assa Traoré

KATIMI AI

On a rainy afternoon in

mid-June, Japanese-Nigerian

DJ Katimi Ai (the name she uses

professionally), 29, marched

through central Tokyo with

3,500 other demonstrators to

protest the killing of George

Floyd. She carried a sign in

English that read, “No Justice.

No Peace. Enough Is Enough.”

Japan’s capital is 6,000 miles

away from Minneapolis, but the

issues raised by the U.S. BLM

rallies felt close to home.

“The typical attitude in Japan is

that discrimination and racial

conflict are mostly American

problems,” she says. “But

I know firsthand that they

exist here too.”

Ai’s Nigerian father left Japan

when she was a baby, and her

Japanese mother raised her in

Tokyo. “My upbringing was 100

percent Japanese, yet I was

bullied at school for my dark

skin color,” she says. Africa was

portrayed in a geography

class, she says, as a primitive

continent full of people in

loincloths. Today she faces

racist slights constantly. “Some

people won’t sit next to me on

the subway, and waiters are

always handing me an English

menu,” she says. In addition to

campaigning on social media,

Ai uses her DJ platform to raise

awareness about Black artists

and culture. “Music is such a

powerful way of connecting

people,” she says.

Japan has been an insular

nation for much of its history,

and suspicion toward

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In June, as Black Lives Matter protests proliferated, Khady Gueye de-

cided to organize a show of solidarity in Lydney, her hometown in rural

southwest England. Gueye, a 25-year-old college student, together with

her best friend, obtained permission from the local council. “We were

planning a small, peaceful demonstration in the park,” says Gueye, who is

mixed-race Senegalese-British. “I didn’t think anyone would object.”

Some in the idyllic country town had other ideas. A local woman

started an online petition to cancel the protest due to the coronavirus,

collecting 800 signatures—almost 10 percent of Lydney’s population. “At

first, people said we should postpone because of the COVID-19 pandem-

ic,” says Gueye. “But as soon as we stressed that we had proper safety

measures in place and planned to go ahead, we received a barrage of

racist hate speech from commenters.”

Such abuse, which included insults about “moaning Black people” and

threats to find out where Gueye lived, confirmed exactly why a BLM rally

was needed. In the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, the district where

Lydney is located, Black and ethnic minorities make up just 1.5 percent of

the population. Like many parts of rural England, the area voted in favor

of Brexit in 2016; anti-immigration sentiment runs high.

The area’s lack of diversity meant there was little understanding of the

BLM movement among those objecting to her event. “They mostly as-

sumed it was anti-white,” says Gueye. The town made headlines when

Lydney Council withdrew permission for the protest, citing “significant

[public] anxiety” and using the phrase “All Lives Matter” to justify its deci-

sion. Social media exploded at the use of a slogan more closely associated

with white supremacists. The council flip-flopped again, apologizing for its

“insensitive” language and allowing the protest to take place in late June.

“It was a big success,” says Gueye. “Instead of 50 people, as we had

originally expected, around 500 people came out. The positive atmo-

sphere was amazing.” Nevertheless, the whole experience made her

realize how much more needs to be done. In July,

Gueye cofounded the Local Equality Commission,

a community project aimed at addressing racial

inequality in rural areas. “We hope to run youth

workshops and visit schools to raise awareness

and to celebrate Black and ethnic minority cul-

ture through art and music,” she says.

It’s a lot to take on, but Gueye says being a new

mother has been a big driving force. “I’m deter-

mined that my one-year-old daughter, Ayla, won’t

grow up feeling isolated like I did,” she says. “She

must be proud of who she is.”

ARIAM TEKLE

Until recently, Ariam Tekle

found it hard to talk to her

white friends about race.

“Whenever the subject of

discrimination in Italy came

up, the first reaction of my

friends was to say they were

not racist,” says the 32-year-

old documentary filmmaker.

“I had to explain that I was

talking about the system, not

about individuals, but they still

seemed offended,” she says.

Italians living in modern

multicultural cities such as

Milan like to see themselves as

colorblind, despite the fact

that Black Italians lag behind

whites in areas such as job

opportunities and higher

education, she adds.

In May, Tekle and a friend

launched a podcast called

Black Coffee, a discussion on

Black identities and daily life

as second-generation

African-Italians. “It was so

liberating to chat with my

Black cohost about the issues

in an unfiltered way,” she says.

After Floyd’s killing later that

month, Tekle saw her pod-

cast’s audience numbers

climbing. “The Black Lives

Matter protests in Italy took

place in solidarity with

America, but they also opened

up people’s minds more to

debates about racism here.”

Tekle’s parents came to Italy

in the 1970s from Eritrea, a

former Italian colony. Almost

one million Africans died

during Italian colonial rule,

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“The issue of Black identity is tricky for many Black Brazilians,” says fem-

inist philosopher and author Djamila Ribeiro, 40, one of the country’s most

powerful advocates for Black rights. “Most of us are descended from African

slaves, but we have no idea which countries our ancestors came from be-

cause former white slave traders destroyed all the records.” To help keep

their children connected to their roots at least partly, Ribeiro says, her par-

ents gave them all African first names; Djamila is a North African Arabic

name meaning “radiant beauty.”

“Black consciousness started from birth,” she says. “My parents taught

me that it’s important to know our history to understand the present. Brazil

was the last country in the Americas to end slavery, in 1888, and we are still

fighting its legacy today.” An estimated 4.7 million Africans were brought to

Brazil as slaves starting around 1560. Today, 56 percent of Brazil’s 210 mil-

lion people are Black or Black/mixed race.

“During and after slavery, there was a lot of intermingling of Black and

white, leading to the myth that Brazil had created a kind of racial democra-

cy where everyone was equal,” says Ribeiro. “In fact, the economic and po-

litical elites are still overwhelmingly white.” Black people earn on average

74 percent less than whites, according to a 2019 study by the Brazilian Insti-

tute of Geography and Statistics. They hold only 6.4 percent of the country’s

corporate management positions. As Black Lives Matter protests across

Brazil highlighted earlier this year, a young Black man under the age of 29 is

killed every 23 minutes as a result of gang and police violence—a rate three

times higher than that for white youths.

The situation is compounded for Black women, who face acute racism as

well as sexism in Brazil’s macho society, says Ribeiro. Black women are vic-

tims of high levels of domestic abuse and a lack of reproductive rights.

Abortion is banned except in cases of rape, when necessary to save a wom-

an’s life, or when the fetus suffers from anencephaly,

and unsafe illegal abortions are a leading cause of

death among Brazilian women under the age of 40.

Ribeiro confronts these issues daily. She has pub-

lished numerous books, including a collection of es-

says on women’s rights, Who’s Afraid of Black Femi-

nism?, and A Short Anti-Racist Handbook, which

was a best-seller last year. Ribeiro finds that fact

especially gratifying in the “current challenging

political environment” under far-right president

Jair Bolsonaro. Last April, a senior member of Bol-

sonaro’s cabinet was caught on tape describing the

nation’s Black-rights movement as “bloody scum”

and calling Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day “a

joke.” Ribeiro is not fazed. “We are going to show

that the joke is on them,” she says.

LYNDA -JUNE COE

Growing up in an Aboriginal

community in the Australian

Outback, Lynda-June Coe says

her teachers expected her to

become one thing only:

“another Black statistic.” Coe,

38, attended a mainly white

school. “There was an assump-

tion that I would be low-

achieving, likely to experience

early pregnancy, and would

end up in trouble with the

justice system,” says Coe, who

is a member of the Wiradjuri

tribe, one of Australia’s largest

indigenous groups.

The stereotypes didn’t factor in

that Coe is descended from a

line of powerful warrior

women. “The Wiradjuri are a

matriarchal society, and our

women have always fought for

our rights,” says Coe, a Black

activist and PhD student

studying indigenous sover-

eignty at Macquarie University

in New South Wales. Coe, who

gives speeches and lobbies the

authorities on Aboriginal rights,

was on the front lines when

Black Lives Matter protests

erupted all over Australia in

June. “The rallies turned out to

be some of the [nation’s]

largest in decades,” she says.

“The issues of police brutality

and Black oppression resonate

as loudly here as they do in

America.”

Australia, says Coe, has “a

fundamental problem with

murdering Black people.” Since

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BANCHI YIMER

Banchi Yimer, 32, escaped

her grueling life as a domestic

worker in Lebanon almost

three years ago. Born in

Ethiopia, she went to the

Middle East in 2011 at the age

of 23 with the promise of a

well-paid job. Instead, she

worked for seven years in

conditions of modern-day

slavery. “I was told I would

earn at least [the equivalent

of] $250 [U.S.] per month and

get one day off a week,” she

says. “[Instead] I was forced to

work seven days a week and

paid only $150 per month. I

had to sleep on an outdoor

balcony. I was not even

allowed to have a phone.”

A United Nations resettlement

program helped Yimer

relocate to Montreal in 2017,

and she now devotes herself

to campaigning on behalf of

African migrant women

through her nonprofit

organization, Egna Legna

Besidet. The Black Lives

Matter movement, she says,

has struck a deep chord.

“Millions of Black domestic

workers are abused and

exploited, hidden away in

private homes far from their

own countries. Their lives are

treated as worthless.”

This has never been clearer

than during the COVID-19

pandemic. As households in

nations such as Lebanon and

Saudi Arabia were hit finan-

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When she was a child, Thabi Myeni was stand-

ing in line with her grandmother at a post office in

the city of Durban, South Africa, when a white

woman came in and went straight to the head of the long queue. “While

other Black people in the line mumbled about the unfairness of the situa-

tion, my grandmother loudly told the woman to wait her turn,” says Myeni,

a writer, activist, and law student at the University of Johannesburg. “The

woman quickly left. She hadn’t expected to be openly challenged.”

The incident was an early lesson in standing up for your rights, says

Myeni, now 23. It was also one of her first realizations that the racist legacy

of apartheid was still alive. “I belong to the first generation to grow up in

what was supposed to be a new ‘rainbow nation,’” says Myeni, who was born

in 1997, three years after apartheid in South Africa formally ended. Nelson

Mandela was in power as the country’s first Black president. “It was sup-

posed to be the dawn of a peaceful, racially harmonious society,” she says.

“But the damage was far too deep to disappear overnight.”

In fact, nearly three decades on, many advantages enjoyed by the white

minority, who make up around 8 percent of South Africa’s population of 57

million, have still not been dismantled. In a 2018 report, the World Bank

described South Africa as “one of the world’s most unequal countries.” Black

people’s salaries were 80 percent lower on average than those of white

people, and more than 9 out of every 10 people living in poverty were

Black. Myeni says that many members of the “rainbow generation” have

had enough. “My parents’ generation often didn’t complain about post-

apartheid injustices because they didn’t want to rock the fragile new

democracy, but more young people are developing a Black consciousness

and demanding change,” she says. The Black Lives Matter protests in South

Africa in June were in solidarity with the U.S., she says, but also to high-

light recent Black South African deaths at the hands of police violence. In

April, 40-year-old Johannesburg man Collins Khosa was having a glass of

beer in his back yard. Witnesses say he was beaten to death by security

forces after local officers accused him of violating COVID-19 lockdown

rules. The same month, sex worker Robyn Montsumi was found hanged

in a Cape Town police cell in suspicious circumstances. “Neither of

these deaths made international

Thabi Myeni

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apprehensions into performance

art. As one half of the music group

the Anxiety, Smith, alongside Tyler

Cole (who photographed this story

for Marie Claire), cycled through

eight different emotional states—

from paranoia to rage to euphoria—

acting out each in three-hour inter-

vals over the course of 24 hours. All

of it took place inside of a glass box

on display at the Museum of Con-

temporary Art in Los Angeles. “I’m a

young woman of color in America.

What I express [in my art] is my dis-

may or my sadness at the reality that

I’m seeing in front of me,” she says.

It’s a reality that isn’t rose tinted.

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gence if the status quo is ever going to

change. “At the end of the day, it always

takes just one person to be like, ‘Eff it,

I’m going to go and I’m going to say this,’

and then all of the people who feel the

same way look at that person and go,

‘I’m going to stand with them.’ ”

Particularly people Smith’s age.

“Youth has always been at the forefront

of change in society. I feel what is be-

coming different is that people are go-

ing out of their way to ask themselves,

‘What can I do? How can I contribute to

making this world a better place?’ ” she

says. Often, that contribution can be as

simple as spreading the word. With

increasing frequency over the last few

years, digital natives like Smith have

turned to their hyperconnected audi-

ences and their own social networks

(her combined following across

Instagram and Twitter is more

than 10 million) to vocalize, orga-

nize, and mobilize in pursuit of

meaningful change. “I speak out

as much as I can on social

media and give artists of color

platforms to speak their mind,

to be seen and have their

work known,” she says.

A trusted voice among her co-

hort, Smith also sits alongside her

mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, and

her maternal grandmother, Adri-

enne Banfield-Norris, at the red

table, the set of the trio’s web

series, Red Table Talk. The show’s

9.8 million followers tune in each

week to hear the perspectives of

three generations of women on is-

sues of paramount importance, like

racial injustice and police violence.

When I ask Smith about her own in-

volvement in Black Lives Matter,

she relays a disturbing incident to

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commonplace: “One of my cousins

actually got shot by a rubber bullet. I

think it was multiple times in his

ribs and in his back.”

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says. “Sometimes finding your

voice means listening to other

people express themselves.

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hand cascades down the screen. “You

can just—” she explains over Zoom, twisting

and turning her wrists to demonstrate one

of Selena Quintanilla’s signature moves. “As

long as you do it with confidence.”

The flamenco hand gesture seems to drip

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naturally to the 30-year-old actress who por-

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show Selena: The Series, which premieres

December 4.

“I’m not a professional pop star, you

know?” Serratos muses. “I had to trust

myself and do [the dance steps] the way that

I felt she was doing them. It made me more

confident, which in turn made it not matter

if it was right or wrong. Because the thing

that Selena had, that was so special, was her

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in a family that communicated in Spanish

regularly, she felt self-conscious speaking

it back. “It’s something I’m working on, to

have it feel as comfortable in my mouth as it

does in my brain,” she says.

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a week later, the government backed away

from a complete ban, saying it would no

longer teach the technique.) In July

2020, following the previous month’s

20,000-strong BLM demonstration in

Paris co-organized by Traoré, the three

judges investigating Adama’s death an-

nounced they were re-examining key

pieces of evidence.

Her efforts have won Traoré admira-

tion at home and earned her a Global

Good Award at this year’s BET awards in

the U.S. “People stop me in the street to

thank me for fighting for a better society,”

she says. The French media has also start-

ed calling the Black youth speaking out for

change “Generation Adama,” which com-

forts her. “I can’t bring my brother back to

life, but I’m happy that his name is going

to go down in history,” she says. “It means

we are winning.” The name Assa Traoré is

sure to go down in history too.

looking into Aboriginal deaths in custody

ordered strict records to be kept, 441 Black

people have died in police or prison cus-

tody, five of them since this year’s June

protests. “Indigenous Australians are 10

times more likely to die in state custody

than non-indigenous people, yet there has

never been a criminal conviction of any-

one responsible,” says Coe. (At press time,

in separate cases of fatal shootings of

Black victims, two police officers have

been charged with murder. One pleaded

not guilty and the other awaits the out-

come of pretrial hearings.)

The disproportionate chance of dying

in custody is part of the snowball effect of

other injustices. The country’s 800,000 in-

digenous people make up 3 percent of the

total population yet are 30 percent of all

inmates in Australian jails. Among female

prisoners, they are 36 percent. “Indige-

nous people are stopped by police, arrest-

ed, and convicted at much higher rates,”

hundreds of African and Asian domestic

workers being abandoned in the street by

their employers. “The women were literal-

ly thrown away like garbage,” says Yimer.

“They had no money, food, or shelter and

nowhere to go.” One man in Lebanon

briefly put his Nigerian maid up “for sale”

on Facebook for $1,000. He was later ar-

rested by Lebanese authorities on charges

of violating antitrafficking laws.

By September, Yimer had raised

enough money to pay for 200 women to

fly home to Ethiopia. But much more

needs to be done, she says. The global pro-

tests over racism have finally helped to

put a spotlight on the kafala system, as

this government-approved slavery is

called in Arabic-language countries in the

Middle East. “Kafala is a sponsorship sys-

tem that allows employers to treat foreign

domestic workers like private property.

The women are not protected by labor

laws and are not even allowed to resign.”

Lebanon’s Labor Ministry estimates

that an average of two domestic workers

per week die in the country as a result of

suicide or illness. Yimer believes the real

figure is higher. “Many deaths caused by

abuse or neglect are covered up,” she says.

She will not stop, she says, until this

brutal system is abolished and the lives of

all migrant domestic workers are “truly

respected.”

headlines, but they are part of the same

global problem that must be stopped,”

Myeni says.

Myeni runs a campus organization

called Womxn Without Chains that ad-

dresses her country’s sky-high rate of

violence against women. In what South

African president Cyril Ramaphosa de-

scribed as “another pandemic raging in

our country,” the rate of femicide is five

times higher than the global average, with

one woman murdered every four hours.

After she finishes her degree, Myeni wants

to help tackle BLM issues on a worldwide

scale. Her grandmother’s lesson was just

the beginning: “I knew I was going to be a

fighter from a very young age.”

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fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who

used chemical weapons to conquer terri-

tory in the 1930s. Tekle, born in Milan in

1988, says she learned nothing about

these atrocities at school. “Italy has a

real problem facing up to its colonial

past, which means that many people

don’t fully understand the origins of rac-

ism in the present.”

In recent months, Tekle and other

activists in Milan have pushed for the re-

moval of a statue of journalist Indro

Montanelli, who married a 12-year-old Er-

itrean girl when he was a colonial soldier

in the ’30s. Montanelli openly dismissed

charges of pedophilia, writing in a news-

paper column that African girls were “dif-

ferent” from European girls.

Such stereotypes persist. “On Italian

TV, sex workers and drug dealers are near-

ly always Black,” says Tekle. “Many of my

Black female friends have been stopped in

the street and asked, ‘How much?’” Tekle

believes that support for Black Lives Mat-

ter is not a passing trend. “We have always

had [our own] language to talk about sys-

temic racism,” she says. “The difference is

that the world is finally listening.”

“outsiders” runs deep. While police kill-

ings are rare, in June 2019, a Nigerian

man in a detention center in Nagasaki

went on a hunger strike. The facility did

not force-feed him and he died. In May of

this year, Tokyo police were caught on

video forcing a Kurdish man to the

ground during a traffic stop.

“One of the stereotypes of Black or

brown people in Japan is that we are

more likely to commit a crime,” says Ai.

Mixed-race people like her are known as

“hafu”—literally “half”—and are not

considered “proper Japanese” by some.

Haitian-Japanese tennis superstar Naomi

Osaka has faced her share of racism. Last

year, instant noodle maker Nissin, one of

Osaka’s sponsors, had to apologize for por-

traying her with lightened skin and

straightened hair in an animé cartoon.

Ai says Osaka, a passionate BLM sup-

porter (at the U.S. Open, she wore masks

bearing names of victims of injustice), is

an “amazing inspiration,” especially for

young Japanese. “She won’t tolerate rac-

Assa Traoré

Thabi Myeni

ism inside or outside Japan.” For now,

BLM events in Japan are confined to on-

line streaming, but Ai hopes that the

movement is gaining a firm foothold. “We

won’t remain silent anymore,” she says.

“Like my sign said, enough is enough.”

Katimi Ai

Ariam Tekle

Lynda-June Coe

Banchi Yimer

says Coe. “It’s all connected.” After her

studies, Coe is considering a career in pol-

itics to fight for racial justice and carry on

the tradition of her female ancestors. “My

inner Wiradjuri warrior gives me a lot of

strength,” she says. “I want to channel that

in as many ways as I can.”

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them taking turns leading each other blindfolded through an of-

fice obstacle course. Imagine them coaching each other through

stringing a cat’s cradle.

“I think maybe the tiredness did add to my not being so self-

aware and just, I suppose, allowing myself to start taking the piss

out of Scarlett from day one, which was great,” says Pugh. “And

then from that point onward, we kind of did it to each other. It was

instant sisterly bonding.”

SCENE V : L a s a g n aIt’s nascent, yes, but that mutual respect, the trust exercises, the

hangouts have established something genuine between these

women. Take as pithy proof when, during our Zoom interview, Jo-

hansson chats off-screen with an assistant about the cooking time

on a dish. “I made lasagna for my friend who just had a baby,” she

says, turning back to Pugh, and explains that she left it on the

counter and, unbeknownst, her assistant put in the oven.

You might want to go check that, lest you give your friend some

burnt lasagna, I offer.

“I know, I was like, I’m doing this interview and thinking, Oh, it

smells really good in here,” she says, flashing a smile.

“I’ve actually never made lasagna,” says Pugh, knitting her eye-

brows. “It kind of terrifies me. The cheese, for some weird reason. I

don’t know why. I think I’m worried that I’ll bake it, and then it

will come out and all the cheese will be hard. Is it easy?”

What do you do when your big Hollywood blockbuster gets put

on the shelf because of a global pandemic? You do what the rest of

us do: pour a drink, get on a Zoom with your friend far away, and

make lasagna.

“Yeah, it’s easy. Pretty easy. Basically, you figure out—” Johans-

son begins, then stops and throws up her hands. “Ah, well, I’ll tell

you later.”

[CONTINUED FROM P. 80]

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ACROSS

1. Look over

5. Leo’s Roadster or

Shakira’s Model S

10. Takes a turn on the

diamond

14. Gnocchi ___ Romana

(“Dumplings, Roman-style”)

15. Invalidate, as a marriage

16. Yearn

17. Austin address?

18. One of several women in

the X-Men

19. Feature of a classic

Trans Am

20. Fall phenomenon featuring

leggings, boots, and

bonfires

23. Like nos. below zero

24. Ida. neighbor

25. Microsoft’s segundo

operating system

27. Nickel finish on a kids’

network

29. Voting group

32. “Mais ___, madame!”

33. Scheduled time off for an

NFL team

36. Lapdogs with curly tails

37. Something to do with fir

branches and holly if you’re

in a festive mood

40. One more than a deuce

41. Summer kicks

42. Prada’s co-creative director

Simons

43. “___-mite!” (“Awesome!”)

44. Show hosted by Carson

Daly, with The

48. Man, Wight, and Skye

50. Bio. or Chem.

52. Illmatic rapper

53. Automotive feature to

be thankful for on a crisp

morning

58. Scandalous selfie, maybe

59. Full of cooties

60. At last! A clue about R&B

singer James

61. Length × width

62. Enterprise rival

63. Easter flower

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64. Attention-grabbing sound

65. Encouragement from a

hostess at a seasonal feast,

with a nod to this puzzle’s title

and three longest answers

66. Goes out with

DOWN

1. Declines

2. Dug in, as a cat on a couch

3. Claim without proof

4. Lioness voiced by Shahadi

Wright Joseph and Beyoncé

5. Electric weapon

6. ___ nous (“Just between us”)

7. Winter coat?

8. Entice

9. “Mater” lead-in

10. Muddy spa offerings

11. Made a ruckus

12. Complete

13. Month no. 9

21. I, ___: 2017 biopic starring

Margot Robbie

22. Showtime sister network for

cinema buffs

26. Pippa, to Kate

28. Do as instructed

29. “Enjoy the foods you love”

product

30. Off-color

31. Gummy gumbo ingredient

34. Website for crafty folks

35. Move to solid food

36. El ___, Texas

37. Uninvited guests

38. Instinctive responses

39. Presley or Costello

40. Prefix for -angle or -athlete

43. “Spring ahead” letters

45. How some games can end

46. Ranch roamers

47. College application pieces

49. Support a local dining

establishment

50. Sweetheart of the

Jersey Shore?

51. “Do you need a shoulder

to ___?”

54. “Goodness gracious!”

55. Place to meat up

56. Rock climber’s handhold

57. Coral-reef dwellers

58. Sticky syrup starter

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