# @kendalltoole on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNA-VNLBGMA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33808267-kendalltoole-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-29T19:58:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kendall Toole (@kendalltoole) — https://gondola.cc/kendalltoole

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✨🎥 take back the narrative, claim YOUR power ⚡️🎥✨

What a MOVIE BUFF today! Truly I don’t know if 45 min was even enough to celebrate the women both in front of and behind the cameras ensuring we share stories about complex, complicated and relatable characters that reflect the reality of femininity.

Hollywood used to be filled with women both above and below the line. In fact, from the transition to “talkies” up until 1934 with the enforcement of The Hays Code (censorship that perpetuated very restrictive perspectives of women amongst many other atrocities) there were MORE female director crating studio/larger distributed films than we have today...IN 2021?! The Hays Code had and continues to have effects on how women are seen on screen and to the false rhetoric that has kept subversive barriers to more elevated and diverse storytelling from our screens. 

Thankfully, audiences have slowly proven this antiquated thinking wrong. Alongside the audience success of films referenced in the class WITH the help of true ICONS breaking ceilings left and right in Hollywood (ava shondarhimes reesewitherspoon rmorrison #gretagerwig #thewachowskis #chloezhao #luluwang #deerees  #kathrynbigelow #pattyjenkins AND SO MANY MORE) we are on our way back to the levels of women above the line that we had from 1930 to 1934. 🔥🔥🔥

Taking the narrative back...happens first when you claim that feminine power for yourself. It’s not a visual look, it’s not fitting a mold or perpetuating a stereotype... it’s living from ones authentic self. 

HERonine’s... CLAIM YOUR STORY. OWN YOUR POWER. CHANGE THE GAME BY REFUSING TO PLAY IT. ⚡️🔥⚡️🔥⚡️✨ 

#womensupportingwomen #badasswomen #moviebuff #onepeloton #kendallsknockouts #stayinthefight #neverknockedout

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pattyjenkins, kathrynbigelow, thewachowskis, stayinthefight, onepeloton, badasswomen, kendallsknockouts, womensupportingwomen, moviebuff, luluwang, deerees, chloezhao, neverknockedout, gretagerwig

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