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Amandla Stenberg, Halsey And More Discuss What It Means To Be A Young Woman In 2016

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Thank god, there is new wave of inspiring young women out there, which are changing the game on what it means to be a woman.

They’ve created game-changing magazines for teens, spoken out on racial injustice and gender-fluidity, and shattered our ideas of beauty standards.

In a recent piece for CR Fashion Book Amandla Stenberg, Halsey and others talked about what it means to be young and a woman in 2016.

In recent months, Amandla Stenberg has shared her impassioned and thoughtful statements on feminism and racial injustice.

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Her video “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” which she created for a school project, went viral last year and brought much-deserved attention to the issue of cultural appropriation.

A lot of the time, the things that I’m sharing are things that people are trying to share but don’t have enough people listening to them.

My dream is to direct movies and provide representation for people who end up being token or secondary characters.

I’ve grown up as part of the movie industry, and that’s the most invalidating feeling, to recognize that roles don’t exist for you. I realize now that I need to create them myself.”

Halsey pushed her way to the radio (and into your ears) with the 2015 summer anthem “New Americana,” which spoke to almost an entire generation. Since then she has recieved critical and commercial success with the album Badlands and duets with artists like Justin Bieber under her belt,

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Halsey’s voice and reach to the new generation is vast — and she has a key note of advice to share.

I don’t speak for anything. I can’t speak for any experience but my own, and if people can relate to that, then that just goes to show how similar people are despite the diversity. The fact that people of all races and all classes and all creeds are relating to this song when it’s from a very specific perspective is proof.

This generation is so intelligent. They care about racism, feminism, ableism, and that’s such a positive mentality, but they need to leave room for forgiveness,” she said. “Nobody is perfect and people are educating themselves at different paces. So be mindful.”

Check out the full feature in issue 8 of CR Fashion Book and atcrfashionbook.com.

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