Malala Yousafzai: This young lady took a bullet and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Priza. By taking on the Taliban , Malala has become a role model for women’s rights and education all over the world. Our Editor-in-Chief wrote an amazing piece on which is listed down below so give it a read.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence: After her son was murdered in a racist attack, Lawrence became an avid campaigner for justice and other victims of racist crime. She founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust shortly after. Doreen was later awarded the OBE for services to community relations back in 2003, and was made a life peer in 2013.
Jennifer Lawrence: Another Lawrence doing well, not only did the actress win an Oscar for her part in Silver Linings Playbook in 2013 but Scriptoeris had to give her a shout out for stating that calling people fat should be banned from the telly. Not only this, but it was her nonsense attitude and
down to Earth sensibilities that had her saying that she would never strive to be skinny over healthy and wouldn’t lose weight just for a role.
Jane Austen: Nearly 200 years after the writer died , her works consistently tops polls for most loved novels, she is even going to be appearing on the British ten pound note, the only woman asides the Queen!
Jessica Cox: is the world’s FIRST licensed aimless pilot, during the year she obtained a driver’s licence and learnt to type a keyboard. You go girl!
Cameron Russell: Russell has been a model for over a decade and we can tell you that she changed our perspective about beauty in less than 10 seconds. In her
honest discussion she talks about how image is superficial, the fact that what you see is
a
professional construction and the idea that beauty means being tall and slender. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y)
Laura Bates: is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a collection of over 10,000 women’s daily experiences of gender inequality. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based project working to combat the use of sexualised violence as a tool of war. She has written for the Independent, the Huffington Post, Grazia, the Women’s Media Center and JUMP! magazine for girls. Someone we definitely look up to in the office.
Angelina Jolie: You have probably heard but it’s so important that Scriptoeris has to highlight it again, the Academy Award winning actress underwent a double mastectomy this year which was great for breast cancer awareness. It was her piece though about her decision and procedures in the New York Time that had us congratulating her on helping other women to make informed health
choices.