Claws star Niecy Nash served up some truth while accepting the Ford Vanguard Award at Essence’s 13th annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards luncheon. “My hope is to be of service in the…
including Janet Mock, Mj Rodriguez, Angelica Ross, Hailie Sahar as well as Indya Moore and Dominique Jackson, both of whom were not able to attend today’s confab.
“Too often black trans women and black queer and gender-nonconforming folks put their bodies on the line every day by being themselves,” said Mock. “Grappling with housing, joblessness, and the lack of access to healthcare and education, navigating our own tools and tolerance and willful ignorance, pushing our sisters out of hostile homes and intolerant schools and churches and into detention facilities and foster homes and prisons and deeper into poverty.
She continued, “Our struggle for black people must include black trans and queer people, period. This award reaffirms that our stories, our lives, our experiences matter and reassures that the way that we tell it from the perspective and talents that those who’ve lived it is most impactful.
Lynch told the crowd that “nobody in this room derived from luck. We are a powerful force field that derived from greatness. We all know the ingredients that are needed for black women to create what she truly wants. But the struggle to not compromise for the sake of others is something we all in this room know all too well. We work hard on our craft and on our self-love and have to remind ourselves daily that we deserve a seat at the table… we are the table.
Attendees included Ava DuVernay, Billy Porter, Gabrielle Union, Janelle Monáe, Issa Rae, Alfre Woodward, and Kerry Washington, who paid tribute to the late Hollywood icon Diahann Carroll.
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