Yara Shahidi
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333 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Yara Shahidi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I was born into a world where I thought this was just a thing and that we weren't going backwards.
But now we're at a phase where
I think so many of us are realizing in real time that we have been the inheritors of so much great work that has to be fought for and has to be maintained.
It's such a great question because it's nothing I've directly talked about, but thought about it in different ways.
And that even when I was coming up with the world of blackish, there was an era in the media landscape in which it was so cool to be an actor with a voice and to be an activist.
And so they'd even ask you, you know, just like lowball questions of like, do you believe humans should be equal?
Yes.
And then the cover would be.
Fighting for human rights.
Yara Shahidi takes a stance.
And that just really spoke to what I think of is this yearning to say, oh, it's cool to have this voice and to be politically active.
And that's our new way of creating role models, people that are unafraid to have those conversations.
But again, it was in vogue.
And now we're in a time or we're experiencing a time in which it is a lot less in vogue.
And I think there's a reintroduction of stakes, like you're saying, to politics.
Having an opinion that even a couple of years ago would have just been to your point.
You know, we have full women's marches with millions of people saying that they believe the same thing.
We have this.
We have that.
All of these things reaffirming that I'm in the right.
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