Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020

power brains with gloria allred, jess miller and meisha brooks

POWER BRAINS GLORIA ALLRED interview by OLIVIER ZAHM photography HEJI SHIN  style by AVENA GALLAGHER with gloria allred, women’s rights attorney, jess miller, pursuing a master of divinity focusing on queer and womanist theology at columbia university, meisha brooks, harvard mechanical engineer turned model and actress OLIVIER ZAHM — Can you name some women who’ve inspired you? GLORIA ALLRED — United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; nominee for president from the Democratic Party, Hillary Rodham Clinton; suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and Harriet Tubman, abolitionist and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad to free slaves. OLIVIER ZAHM — Women are not afraid anymore to speak out and you’ve never been. Where did you find this personal inner strength? GLORIA ALLRED — In my high school, the Philadelphia High School for Girls, we were taught that we should have confidence in ourselves. Also, I know that the…

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