Woman Crush Wednesday: Beyoncé Liberated
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everything they do. We were excited this morning to find out that Queen B has t
taken time from her busy schedule to grace the cover of Out Magazine's May
2014 Power issue. Posing topless with just her hands coving her bare breast,
Beyoncé gives us Marilyn Monroe and oh so much more .
Source: Out Magazine
Photographed by Santiago & Mauricio and styled by Lysa Cooper. This is her first major
article is written by Arron Hicklin who had to rely on email exchanges for his interview. "If
you want to get to know someone, it helps to get to know the people around them. In
Beyonce's case, there was no alternative. The opportunity to write about her materialized
with an unusual condition: There would be no face-to-face interview. The musician was in t
the midst of an intense international tour, dramatically overhauled to accommodate 10
songs from her new, eponymous album. And although I would get to fly to Glasgow to see
her perform the revised set, I would have to settle for an email exchange for this story. But
—and this was the silver lining—I would have unprecedented access to Parkwood
Entertainment, the tight-knit, furiously devoted team at the heart of Brand Beyoncé. This
was more than a concession—this was being invited into Bey’s inner sanctum."
Source: Out Magazine
"There is Angie Beyince, vice president of operations, who grew up spending her summers
with her cousins, Beyoncé and Solange. “They loved Janet Jackson,” she tells me. “We’d
talk all night and watch Showtime at the Apollo and my snake, Fendi, would just be
crawling around. He’d sit on our heads while we watched TV.”
Source: Out Magazine
"There is Ed Burke, visual director, who had never heard of Beyoncé when he met her 10
years ago, responding to a request from a friend to shoot her for a day. He spent the next
seven years trailing her around the world with a camera. In Egypt, he and Beyoncé scaled a
pyramid together as the rest of their group gave up or fell back. “It smelled like urine
because there are no bathrooms up there,” he recalls. “She looked like Mother Teresa,
wearing this white dress and a head wrap, and when we got to the top she sang Donny
Hathaway’s ‘A Song for You.’ ”
Source: Out Magazine
is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists. Men are free and women
are not. That is crazy. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims.
Women are so much more than that."-Beyoncé
Source: Out Magazine
themselves an oppressed minority…We are all the same and we all want the same things:
the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love."
-Beyoncé
Source: Out Magazine
me and became a way to personalize that struggle…But what I’m really referring to, and
hoping for, is human rights and equality, not just that between a woman and a man."
-Beyoncé
"While I am definitely conscious of all the different types of people who listen to my music,
I really set out to make the most personal, honest, and best album I could make. I needed
to free myself from the pressures and expectations of what I thought I should say or be, and
just speak from the heart." -Beyoncé
