.fourthwaveprof spoke with Cheryl_CLBP, founder of TheJTCList, about her vision for a diverse and inclusive Hollywood
, when you first came to Los Angeles, to get invited to, or even enter the spaces, where networking and hiring was taking place. Tell me about the process of starting Women of Color Unite and The JTC List.: My friends tease me because I always say that I didn’t mean to become the leader of a grassroots movement, but that’s what I did.
I’m not the type of person who will sit around and complain about something without action. So, I threw this event and invited 150 women of color—I used my tax refund and my savings to do it; they didn’t have to pay for anything—for us to get to know each other. I think one of the reasons that the industry has not changed a lot is because we’re not all in a room together.
I didn’t do anything special. Everybody has privilege—colorism, ageism, sizeism—we all have privilege. I have two distinct privileges. Number one, that my mother was Joan Theresa Curtis. Two, that I understand the educational privileges that I had. We rarely get these opportunities, so when we get it, once we’re in the room, we are on it. I have yet to have somebody say: I hired somebody from the list, and they weren’t that good.
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