After the huge success of her BBC Three special What Would Beyoncé Do?! Luisa Omielan talked to Brogan Driscoll at BUILD in London about women’s bodies, the Women’s March and why body image stops us paying attention to politics.
The comedian said: “With everything that’s going on politically – I didn’t know about politics, I didn’t care. And now you start to care because you kind of have to. It’s so interesting how they keep women concentrating, focusing on our size, on our butt cheeks, let’s focus on what we look like…
“So that we don’t see that they’re ripping the NHS from under us or the amount of inequality that’s going on, or the poverty. You’ve got people dying in winters on the street. The system and our society is keeping us suppressed by looking at our self image, rather than looking up.
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