From the White House to Hollywood, check-out the latest news, trends and upcoming events. No images? Click here My Isolation Diary By Emily Vogel (Photographed/Styled by: Elle B. Mambetov) Dear Diary, If you didn’t start a podcast during COVID, did you even quarantine? That’s right, WrapWomen has officially entered the chat. We might be fashionably late to the podcast party, but we're here and ready to turn things up. Join us this Friday, July 30 for the series premiere of “UnWrapped,” a podcast dedicated to the badass women of Hollywood. Episode One will feature…
Whether you’re in the mailroom, the corner office, or just want to learn more about the industry, this podcast will "unwrap" everything from entertainment news and industry trends to career advice, Hollywood headlines and more. New episodes of “UnWrapped” will drop the last Friday of every month starting July 30. You can listen on TheWrap.com, WrapWomen.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Yusra Mardini: From Syrian Refugee to Olympian(Source: Alexander Hassenstein / Getty Images for IOC) After inspiring the world as a member of the first-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team in Rio in 2016, Yusra Mardini is back and her mission is two fold: to win the gold and remind everyone of the value of refugees. As a teenager, Yusra Mardini fled the war in Syria. She swam for three hours, in the open sea, steering her sinking boat to safety, saving every passenger on board. Then she trekked from Greece to Germany by foot. On Saturday she competed in the 100m Butterfly at the Olympics. The swimmer recently appeared in the new Olympics ad titled “We chose to keep our dreams alive” and emphasizes how each refugee Olympic athlete has a unique story to tell. "We don't share a nation or a language. Each of us has a different story. But there is something we all have in common: We chose to keep our dreams alive," Mardini says at the beginning of the video. 82-Year-Old Wally Funk Just Became the Oldest Person in Space (Source: Joe Raedle via Getty Images) Wally Funk, 82, who was once barred from a career as an astronaut because she’s a woman, became the oldest person ever to travel to space last week. Funk, who had already made history as the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board and the first female Federal Aviation Administration inspector, joined Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and two other passengers on the suborbital space journey. “I’ve been waiting a long time to finally get up there, and I’ve done a lot of astronaut training through the world ― Russia, America ― and I could always beat the guys on what they were doing, because I was always stronger, and I’ve always done everything on my own,” Funk said at a news conference after the rocket completed its 11-minute journey. Funk was one of 13 women who went through rigorous, sometimes grueling, testing in the 1960s to determine whether women were fit for space travel. Though she and the other women tested on par with or better than men, NASA required its astronauts to be military test pilots ― a role women were excluded from at the time. Until Funk’s journey last week, none of those women had ever made it to space. Only she and one other woman from the program are still alive. '13 Reasons Why' Star Tommy Dorfman Reintroduces Herself as a Transgender Woman(Credit: Gizelle Hernandez for TIME) "13 Reasons Why" star Tommy Dorfman came out as transgender in an Instagram post last week. "Thrilled to reintroduce myself as the woman i am today. My pronouns are she/her," Dorfman wrote, alongside editorial photos of her wearing dresses and heels. Dorfman shared more about her identity as a trans woman in a coinciding interview with Time Magazine. In the article, titled, "Tommy Dorfman Would Like to Clarify," the 29-year-old said she's "been privately identifying and living as a woman" for a year. Now that she's out to the public, she explained why she prefers to use the term "reintroduction" to describe her transition. "It’s funny to think about coming out, because I haven’t gone anywhere," she said. "I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically. Coming out is always viewed as this grand reveal, but I was never not out." 13-Year-Old Nishiya Momiji Wins First-Ever Women's Street Skateboarding Gold (Source: Olympics.com ) In the inaugural Olympics street skateboarding competition, two of the youngest competitors at the Olympic Games won the gold and silver. The gold medalist, Nishiya Momiji, wrote her name into the history books with a score of 15.26, beating Brazil's Rayssa Leal, also 13, and 16-year-old Nakayama Funa from Japan. With a combined age of 42, this is believed to be the youngest Olympic podium ever. “I’m so happy to win the Olympics in Japan, and I’m so happy to win my first Olympics as one of the youngest competitors,” said Momiji. One of the reasons people were so thrilled about skateboarding being included on the Olympic program was the youthful excitement it would bring to the Games. Now with 13-year-old gold and silver medalists, that youth has proven its ability to shine. After decades in the shadows of men's skateboarding, the future for the sport's trailblazing women is brighter than ever. Greta Thunberg Got Her First COVID-19 Vax Dose and Called Out Global Vaccine Inequality(Source: @GretaThunberg) On July 27 Greta Thunberg got her first dose of the vaccine and took the opportunity to call out vaccine inequality via social media. “Today, I got my first COVID-19 vaccination dose,” Greta wrote, sharing a photo of herself masked up with a Band-Aid on her arm. “I am extremely grateful and privileged to be able to live in a part of the world where I can already get vaccinated. The vaccine distribution around the world is extremely unequal.” She then cited a statement from the New York Times, which reports that, globally, “84% of shots that have gone into arms worldwide have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Only 0.3% of doses have been administered in low-income countries.” According to the Times, by continent, Europe and North America are leading the world in vaccine doses administered per capita, with 84 and 82 doses administered per 100 people, respectively. No other continent is over 60 on that front, and Africa has administered only 4.5 doses per 100 people. “No one is safe until everyone is safe,” Greta wrote. “But when you get offered a vaccine, don’t hesitate. It saves lives.” Did We Just Become Best Friends? WrapWomen is a power base of influential women of entertainment, media, technology and brands committed to changing the face of their industries. Stay up-to-date on all things WrapWomen at www.wrapwomen.com. Join the conversation on social media! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for surprise guest takeovers and Insta live performances. Tune into our podcast "UnWrapped" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |