sometimes i wonder why more people dont talk about feminist keira knightley
“Where are the female stories? Where are they? Where are the directors, where are the writers? It’s imbalanced, so given that we are half the cinema-going public, we are half the people [who] watch drama or watch anything else, where is that? So yes, I think the pay is a huge thing, but I’m actually more concerned over the lack of our voices being heard,” Knightley states in the mag. “I don’t know what happened through the ’80s,’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.”
and how she sued the dailymail for publishing a false article on her and anorexia, only to win £3000 and donate £6000 to a charity for those who suffer mental illness and eating disorders
plus the fact she did a topless photoshoot on the basis it wouldn’t end up being photoshopped, to draw attention to how "women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame.”
“I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters. And that [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.” —An interview with The Times of London, 2014.
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