#MeToo Missed Us: Female Composers Speak Out
The impact of speaking out is greater than we think.
This week I was honoured to be quoted in The Hollywood Reporter about #MeToo movement for composers, alongside composers Nomi Abadi, Catherine Nguyen, Laura Karpman and Jayla Damaris, and Deputy General Secretary of the MU, Naomi Pohl
When Nomi Abadi asked me to speak to reporter Rebecca Keegan at thehollywood_reporter, I thought yeah sure, no problem!
But The Fear overcame me when I actually was interviewed. I had to think long and carefully about whether to put my name on this, what to say on the record.
And yet, now that it’s out it really feels like I made the right decision for me and for what I stand for.
Because if we stay silent, then the perpetrators of abuse and hostility and those turning their backs, get away with it.
Nomi Abadi shared via Instagram:
"I pulled up to the little NYC-style newsstand in Studio City in the rain on Friday. I rolled down the window as the rain flew into my car, and asked the woman there if they had the new issue of the Hollywood Reporter.
“The one with Jennifer Aniston on the front?” she asked. “Yes, we have it. Why, are you in there?”
I said yes, and that it was not what I ever imagined my first article in Hollywood Reporter to be, but explained that female composers had broken their silence on #MeToo.
She left and walked back with a stack of magazines and pointed to the cover.
“Hey, that’s you!” She teared up and said, “I’m so proud of you.”
I paid for the magazine, and she leaned her head through the window.
“You know, I was an intern at a radio station when I was 18. An unpaid intern for an old man boss.
One time, my boss made me come over and do some work for him at his house.
All I remember was him laying me down. I don’t remember what happened after that.
For the life of me, I can’t remember.”
#MeToo
