“Thoughts and prayers just don’t fucking cut it anymore,” the singer told Vanity Fair after donating $500K to Planned Parenthood and abortion funds.
Roe v. Wade. “Black people have been dehumanized so much—especially Black women. I’d like to be an optimist, but I’m a chronically disappointed optimist,” she said. “The way Black women have been treated in this country has made me feel very hopeless. I don’t think there was a time when [we] were treated fairly and with respect.
was matched by Live Nation, her tour promoter. Her financial contributions seem to be a frustrated response to the government’s inaction, which has left her unimpressed. While she doesn’t “condemn” the current administration , she wants to know what “real steps” they’re planning to take in regards to reproductive rights: “I don’t know what they’re doing,” she said.
and the people who are complicit in helping uphold it—who are a lot of white women,” she explained. “The women who voted for Donald Trump. The façade that ‘America, we’re all in this together.’ No, we’re not.” While Lizzo herself hasn’t had an abortion herself, she doesn’t believe that you need to have a “personal” connection to a cause to advocate for it:
I know plenty of people who would have died if they hadn’t had that procedure. It shouldn’t matter if I had a personal experience or knew somebody; it shouldn’t matter what my opinion is. Opinions is what got us [into] this shit in the first place—what people think people should be doing with their bodies. These days, we don’t create laws that support people having health care, never mind abortions.
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