Friday, December 30, 2011

2011's Top 8 Women Who Tell It Like It Is!

Anyone who knows me knows that I possess an intense conviction am tenacious and rarely bite my tongue. So in the spirit of that my Top 8 year-end list salutes women who did the same thing and made 2011 a better year! So get ready, here they come!

8. Sheryl Sandberg
As the woman who made Facebook into a bona fide business, Sheryl Sandberg is celebrated this year as one of Forbes Magazine's Most Powerful Women. She's at the top of one of the world's most successful companies and has not compromised the things that are most important to her in order to get there. 
7. Riley
Ok so she is not quite a woman but young Riley already sees through the marketing tactics that try to lull her into only wanting pink princess toys! Someone give this girl a superhero and a marketing gig! 


6. Rihanna
She banked one of the year's highest grossing tours raking in $90 Million, beating out Jay Z & Kanye and Britney Spears, she has the #2 song on Billboard's Hot 100 and according the Daily Mail this Rebellious Flower boasts the year's sexiest ad campaign. It's no wonder she demands we suck her cockiness!'


5. Deirdre Breakenridge
For everything I thought I knew about public relations this year, Deirdre taught me the true essence of our industry by proving to me that if what I'm doing is "comfortable" then I'm probably doing it wrong. Every post on her blog is a golden nugget of information that she could probably charged a hefty fee to view (please don't)! She truly gets it and is changing PR for the better and for good. Click the pic and see what I mean.


4. Dee Rees
Her film Pariah is a powerfully truthful and moving illustration of the stories I see and experience regularly but never see portrayed on the silver screen. In Pariah, Dee Rees eloquently tells the story of a young, brown, aggressive, lesbian's search for identity, peace and ultimately her place in a world that sometimes want nothing to do with who she is! 

3. Janet Mock
Janet Mock is known to many as the gorgeous, successful Staff Editor for People.com, a beautiful woman born on the island of Honolulu who is at the top of her game. She also happens to be trans. Janet Mock's powerful story of how she was born boy and transitioned into the woman she was always meant to be has provided an uncensored look into the transgender experience. Click below to read her story.


2.  Nancy Upton
Nancy showed fat girls, the fashion industry and women everywhere that one industry giant's "blatant, sloppy attempt to lazily win over the hearts of women who, because of their size, already face daily struggles to defend their looks and physical behavior" would be rejected in a BIG way! Click the pic to get the full story.


1. Amber "NineteenPercent"
This feminist phenom was previously unknown to me and thousands of others, that was until she used her vlog to educate the world and pop superstar Beyonce on the many shocking reasons girls DO NOT run the world!

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