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Yara Shahidi Speaks About The Value of Black Joy in Interview With Elle

Yara Shahidi, in an interview with Elle magazine, the 20-year-old actress spoke about her mission to help others, particularly Black creatives and professionals, and how that goal stems from her socially conscious upbringing. She also discussed the “double-edged sword” of speaking out against injustices, as well as her hope for reconstructing a better future. Ahead, check out the stunning photos from Yara’s feature — taken by her father, Afshin Shahidi — and her best quotes from Elle’s digital August issue!

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Here are excerpts from the cover

  • On being raised to be socially minded: “This idea of consistently being of service to the world around you is a dialogue that we were raised with, starting with grandparents on both sides of my family and then into the conversations in our household. I’m beyond grateful that our house has been consistently a place of conversation and a place of action since I was young.”
  • On the value of amplifying different voices: “When I’m looking at this moment at large, there is this kind of double-edged sword of wanting people to speak up and then [thinking that they’re] not speaking up the right way. It’s something that I’m personally even conflicted about. In this moment, for example, I think a lot of the work that I’m hoping to do is about pointing people toward the organizers and the people on the front lines of this movement, because they have the most prescient, most real, most necessary voices. The greatest skill about having a platform, I think, is handing over the mic.

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  • On the importance of Black joy and what that means to her: “Mentorship. When I think of fashion, for example, I’m grateful to be in a community. My stylist, Jason Bolden, has always prioritized what it means to support Black people in the fashion industry. We’ve consistently been in conversations about how to use this space for something that’s powerful. Who are we bringing into these moments? Who can we open doors for? Who can we be in community with? Joy comes from being able to consistently embrace our sense of community and revel in our culture year-round. We must believe that there is something that we’re fighting for in order to keep fighting.”
  • On reconstructing the future: “Society tries to take away our ability to imagine, it takes away our ability to participate in a larger collective and nuanced Black imaginary world, because we are consistently burdened with the task of dealing with our reality. There’s very little space to participate in something that is unknown, because there’s so much to handle in our present. We need this imagination and creative force to completely reconstruct our reality. To not only destroy, but to completely reconstruct what the future looks like.”

Read the full interview on Elle

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