After Oprah Winfrey delivered her much-acclaimed speech on behalf of the Time’s Up campaign at last Sunday night’s Golden Globes, she took stock on CBS News Sunday Morning show yesterday with guests including Kathleen Kennedy & Natalie Portman….
First questions: Who is the head of the group? And is it an organization? A movement? “At this moment it’s a campaign,” said Tracee Ellis Ross, star of “Black-ish.” “And we’re all sort of workers among workers and women among women, sort of rolling up our sleeves and doing whatever sort of comes to the forefront.”
“Well, we’re women!” Ross replied.
Winfrey asked, “Beyond raising awareness, how is this going to help the waitress, the farm worker, the factory worker, the caregiver? How does what’s happening in the room with Time’s Up affect the people who are watching this right now?”
“We have to maintain the momentum of this conversation, because they can’t,” said Kennedy. “It’s not only in what we’re doing with a group like Time’s Up, but it’s in the content we’re creating, the conversations we’re having. We have to continue this work because we do have the spotlight.”
And they also have the money: The $16 million Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund can help female harassment victims get a lawyer, if they need one.
Winfrey asked, “There’s so many men and women now who are uncomfortable in their workplaces because of all that’s been uncovered and aren’t just really sure how to be. What do we say to them?”
“We’re humans; we’re all humans,” said Portman. “And I think it’s treating people as fellow humans … it’s not because you have a daughter that you respect a woman, it’s not because you have a wife or a sister, it’s because we’re human beings, whether we’re related to a man or not. We deserve the same respect. We have an instinct about how to treat our fellow human beings.”
Read the full interview and more here.
