Future Women's History Month: Jill Soloway's Patriarchy-Toppling Mission
Fuse is celebrating Women's History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Women's History before our eyes. Today we pay tribute to Jill Soloway, the Transparent creator whose 2016 Emmy acceptance speech concluded with, "Topple the patriarchy! Topple the patriarchy!"
That's a phrase you're apt to see any day on the internet; it was a whole other thing for Soloway to shout it on one of live national TV's major award ceremonies. But following the celebrated 2014 premiere of Transparent, Soloway shot from being someone who'd written/produced for a few shows (Six Feet Under, United States of Tara) and written/directed the indie film Afternoon Delight to being someone with an über-sought-after fearless perspective. And they (Soloway uses the gender-neutral pronoun) are happy to oblige.
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