Willow Smith is on the cover of i-d magazine, below are some abstracts from the interview:
You went to see Gloria Steinem and bell hooks talk last year at New York’s New School. How and why do you identify with these women?
It was just an honour to be in the presence of such strong women – just feeling their energy and all that they’ve been through and all of the knowledge that they’ve cultivated. Just being with them opened my eyes so much. When I was little, my mum always used to tell me about Goddesses and the feminine powers of the universe, and I’d always be so confused because everyone said God was a man. I felt this strong feminine energy in my life but society is on this whole other polarity. It’s always been so confusing to me. But just being around women like that and talking about that goddess energy more and more and cultivating it with other young girls… I feel that my song Female Energy inspires a lot of girls to reach for that Goddess entity.
It was just an honour to be in the presence of such strong women – just feeling their energy and all that they’ve been through and all of the knowledge that they’ve cultivated. Just being with them opened my eyes so much. When I was little, my mum always used to tell me about Goddesses and the feminine powers of the universe, and I’d always be so confused because everyone said God was a man. I felt this strong feminine energy in my life but society is on this whole other polarity. It’s always been so confusing to me. But just being around women like that and talking about that goddess energy more and more and cultivating it with other young girls… I feel that my song Female Energy inspires a lot of girls to reach for that Goddess entity.
You and your mum are also very outspoken about the issues surrounding sex trafficking.
They’re very real issues. Nobody really thinks that human trafficking exists in the US, but it exists everywhere and it’s happening every day. That’s why I’m so saddened when the media is degrading women. This is happening to us; we’re suppressed enough, us women, we need to come together and we need to be together. We shouldn’t be demeaning each other. That’s one thing that makes me so sad.
They’re very real issues. Nobody really thinks that human trafficking exists in the US, but it exists everywhere and it’s happening every day. That’s why I’m so saddened when the media is degrading women. This is happening to us; we’re suppressed enough, us women, we need to come together and we need to be together. We shouldn’t be demeaning each other. That’s one thing that makes me so sad.
Credit: i-d.vice.com
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