profeminist:Leonard Nimoy was a proud champion of women’s rights“Actor Leonard Nimoy, who died
profeminist:Leonard Nimoy was a proud champion of women’s rights“Actor Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was best loved by fans for his portrayal of Mr Spock, the half-human, half-Vulcan first officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek.But Nimoy was also a talented poet, photographer, artist — and a lifelong women’s rights champion.In 2007, the late actor published a The Full Body Project — a collection of nude portraits that challenged mainstream beauty ideals. The book featured black and white images of proud, full-figured women of all shapes and sizes and aimed to fight the collective obsession with policing women’s weight and the what he called “the fantasy ideal”. "There is a huge industry built up around selling women ways to get their bodies closer to the fantasy ideal. Pills, diets, surgery, workout programs,” wrote Nimoy, “The message is ‘You don’t look right. If you buy our product, you can get there.”Nimoy was also a staunch campaigner for pay equality. According to Bustle, a 2014 interview revealed Nimoy helped pushed for equal pay for Star Trek co-star Nichelle Nichols. Star Trek Actior Walter Koenig said: “When it came to the attention of the cast that there was a disparity in pay in that George [Takei] and I were getting the same pay but Nichelle was not getting as much, I took it to Leonard and he took it to the front office and they corrected that.”Read the full piece here -- source link
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