Paste / 5 mars 2013 |
Olivia
Wilde Issue 83 |
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This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.” We wanted to support this global movement by devoting an entire issue of PASTE to men and women doing just that. We’ve partnered with Half the Sky, a book and documentary series from New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn. In the film, a Masaii woman named Rebecca Lolosoli clearly lays out the challenges that many women in the world still face: “The rights we want: We want to choose our husband; we want to own the land; we want to go to school; we don’t want to be cut anymore; we want also to make decisions; we want to participate in politics; we want to be leaders; we want to be equal.” We’ve enlisted some of the most effective women activists in this arena—people like Somaly Mam and Helene Gayle—along with some of our favorite actresses who’ve lent their time and influence to the fight. We’re an entertainment magazine, but like these actresses, we don’t believe that lets us off the hook when it comes to talking about more important issues. We begin with this week’s cover subject, Olivia Wilde, who excels as both an entertainer and an activist.—Josh Jackson, Paste co-founder, editor-in-chief.
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Kibera is the largest
slum in Africa and third largest in the world. Three miles from downtown
Nairobi, Kenya, its makeshift hovels extend as far as the eye can see.
Garbage piles higher than some of the shacks and shallow streams of
sewage flow past barefoot toddlers playing alone in the streets and pre-teens
getting high from cheap bottles of glue. My tour of area in 2001 was
guided by a group of orphaned or abandoned adolescent boys who’d been
the terrors of the neighborhood before getting off the streets with the
help of a local doctor named Tom Olewe. Even after they turned from
thieving and raping, they still faced difficult lives. But in many ways,
the girls they knew had it even worse.
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Paste:
How did having journalists for parents and grandparents shape your view
of the needs of the world and our response to it? Olivia Wilde: They definitely instilled in us a sense of our responsibility as winners of “the life lottery” to be useful humans. We all love to tell stories in my family, and we’ve all found our own ways of using our voices to fight for justice.
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