“In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. What struck me the most was that less than 30% of the audience were male. How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or being welcomed to participate in the conversation?” – Emma Watson, U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador

It’s 12 : 58 PM on day 1473 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Proverbs 11, publish my Disability of the Day feature, stretch my hamstrings, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, feed myself a peanut butter and a banana  for breakfast, work on my upcoming campaign – I really love learning how to crowd-fund better I am drawn to crowd-funding because a collective effort is required for a crowd-funding campaign to succeed when I’m a crowd-funding for a good cause I feel like I’m part of something bigger than me 🙂  –  and listen to music.

Yesterday I watched Emma Watson’s UN speech promoting gender equality and I began to understand that gender inequality is just as detrimental to men as it is to women think about it if women are always submissive and weak men are forced by society’s gender stereotype to be dominant and strong. Watch Emma Watson’s amazing UN speech below: