Dunham said Clinton made it possible for her fellow sexual assault survivors in NY to have access to safe care in any emergency room.
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“I am a pro-choice, feminist, sexual assault survivor with a chronic reproductive illness”, said Dunham, referencing having to take time off due to her endometriosis earlier in the year. Zoning in on Donald Trump and his policies on women’s rights, race and asylum seekers.
Lena told the crowd that Donald Trump’s “rhetoric takes us back to a time when women were expected to be attractive and silent”. “He’s making America hate again”, Ferrera said.
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Before voicing their support of Hillary Clinton, the two women seized the chance to drag the Republican candidate. “She knows we have to fight hatred of all kinds and not ignite it for the crave and goal of seeking power”.
“Donald’s not making America great again”, Ferrera added. Ferrera spoke about how she was the child of Honduran immigrants, educated in a public school where she often relied on free meals “to get through the school day”. “Not our color, gender, or economic status, but our capacity to grow into thriving adults able to contribute great things to this country”.
“What does it take to be the first female anything?” she told the crowd, going on to praise first female Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor and first female major-party ticket candidate Geraldine Ferrero.
Meanwhile, actress Ashley Judd stopped on Broad Street in Philadelphia with tears in her eyes while watching a protest against police brutality.
The Girls creator and Ferrera first announced they would be speaking together on Instagram and included a jab at Melania Trump in their post. “The thrill! We promise not to copy off Michelle Obama’s homework, dreamy as she is”.
“I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States”, said the Vermont senator, after the DNC’s roll call. And if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say: “I may become the first woman president but one of you is next”, Clinton said via satellite.
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And even if they weren’t, these celebrities – many of them television actors like Dunham and Ferrera, who are far less known to the general public than movie stars like Streep – don’t have almost the same level of influence they once did, thanks to an increasingly segmented media landscape. She also compared the GOP presidential nominee to her Hunger Games character.
