{"id":98611,"date":"2024-05-19T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/cynthia-erivo-delivers-powerful-speech-about-being-black-bald-headed-pierced-and-queer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:17:00","slug":"cynthia-erivo-delivers-powerful-speech-about-being-black-bald-headed-pierced-and-queer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/cynthia-erivo-delivers-powerful-speech-about-being-black-bald-headed-pierced-and-queer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Delivers Powerful Speech About Being \u2018Black, Bald-Headed, Pierced and Queer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cynthia Erivo Delivers Powerful Speech About Being &#8216;Black, Bald-Headed, Pierced and Queer&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSVF8LQmi5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/MSVF8LQmi5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1792192753259995644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs I stand here in front of you: Black, bald-headed, pierced, and queer, I can say I know a thing or two about being the other,\u201d the Tony winner said Saturday night at the Los Angeles LGBT Center Gala, where she was presented with the Schrader Award by Jada Pinkett-Smith. \u201cElphaba\u2019s story is\u2026 about how a colorful, powerful, magical woman\u2014despite being disparaged, demonized, and discriminated against\u2014becomes a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWicked is a reclamation and a reimagining of the labels used against her. It is the proclamation of her right to exist in all her power,\u201d she continued. \u201cIf that sounds familiar to you colorful, magical people in this room\u2014it should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/1792192753259995644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128431254.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Erivo Delivers Powerful Speech About Being &#8216;Black, Bald-Headed, Pierced and Queer&#8217; https:\/\/t.co\/MSVF8LQmi5 \u2014 Variety (@Variety) May 19, 2024 \u201cAs I stand here in front of you: Black, bald-headed, pierced, and queer, I can say I know a thing or two about being the other,\u201d the Tony winner said Saturday night at the Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}