Gladys Berejiklian to Edward Enninful: 2020’s power players
A global pandemic, an embarrassing public scandal and questions on her leadership ... Gladys Berejiklian has had a horror 2020. Here’s how she survived it.
The challenges of this year have given rise to a new wave of local and international champions, including NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian — who had to navigate her state through a global pandemic, as well as survive a challenge to her leadership after a damaging private scandal played out in the public sphere. Here is the entire list of Vogue’s 2020 Game Changers.
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Gladys Berejiklian, Premier of New South Wales
The 45th Premier of New South Wales found herself governing eight million people in the most populous state in Australia during a global pandemic — more people than Singapore, and nearly twice the population of New Zealand. “You don’t choose what happens at the time you’re Premier, but certainly it’s been very humbling leading the community during a very difficult time,” she says.
Berejiklian’s level-headedness, during the kind of year most leaders can expect never to experience, is a riposte to her critics. Surviving an attempt on her leadership, navigating catastrophic bushfires, a pandemic and the airing of her private affairs, Berejiklian has an even-keeled optimism discovered in 2020. “We’re always stronger than we think we are and you don’t realise that until you’re tested — I wish I wasn’t so tested,” she says with wry good humour, “but it’s been encouraging to know that you just focus on the job at hand and always keep moving forward.”
She recognises that her leadership style has evolved, too. “As a leader I’ve been more flexible and I haven’t been afraid to change position or course, or my mind if I have to, depending on circumstance,” she says. “There’s always going to be people who attack you, or are negative, and that doesn’t bother me anymore. I think I’ve become more courageous in my decision-making, because I’ve had to.”
With the state a global success story in suppressing the virus to date, she’s had room to turn her mind to other issues, like the altering of the national anthem to be more inclusive of First Nations histories and peoples, of which she is a proponent for.
Now, on the cusp of 2021, she feels the best years lie ahead. “You don’t see it at the time, but [difficult times] eventually make you stronger, and that gives me enormous hope and optimism for the future. I feel that for New South Wales, I feel that for the citizens, and I feel it for myself personally as well.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Edward Enninful OBE, Editor-in-chief of British Vogue
Expanding the prism of voices that filter through the Vogue universe to reflect the rich scope of modern society has been Edward Enninful’s great work. As the first black editor of the magazine, the Ghanaian-born, London-raised Enninful was awarded an OBE for services to diversity in 2016 — the year before he even took the leadership at British Vogue. This week he was announced as the European editorial director of Vogue editions in countries like the U.K., France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
This year alone at the 104-year-old magazine he has made history multiple times including putting the first ever durag on the cover, as seen on Rihanna, as well as giving the September issue over to 20 activists fighting for action on issues such as climate change, racial inequality, discrimination towards people with a disability and gender inequity. “Activism has re-emerged from the margins and taken hold of the mainstream to essentially say, ‘Enough is enough,’ he reflects. “The power of the collective voice is being heard.”
He knows changing the fashion industry from the inside out and pushing boundaries is about perspectives in front of, but especially behind, the camera. “I wanted to create an inclusive environment and open up equal opportunities,” he says of the workplace that is British Vogue, made to foster the right attitudes behind the scenes at the magazine for his staff. “I have an incredible team, which is filled with fierce and unique talent. We let our imaginations thrive, spark compelling conversations, and challenge the status quo,” he says.
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— Edward Enninful OBE (@Edward_Enninful) December 15, 2020
His work has engendered an authentic connection with contemporary readers and fostered a community whose beliefs and values inform the historic pages. It is that communion, between reader and editor, that has redefined what the modern Vogue brand signifies.
Universality is another key tenet — Enninful noting that our lives are increasingly intertwined, demonstrated when he placed the spotlight on the Australian bushfires, and celebrated our local talent in a shoot on a visit hosted in Sydney by Vogue Australia. “We are global citizens, and if there was ever a year to affirm this, it has been 2020. We are united in many ways, not least by a global pandemic, social and political injustices, and the climate crisis,” he says.
One of the world’s first teenage editors — he was made fashion director of i-D magazine at just 18, and held that post for two decades — his forged a name as a stylist who cast an editor’s eye into previously unseen places. It is a skill that saw him poised to helm a magazine during a global health crisis, tapping directly into the experiences of the community, featuring frontline workers on the cover and telling the stories of a world in lockdown.
He recognises fashion as, not isolated, but the connective tissue between culture, politics, art and as a vehicle for people’s personal stories, a way to unite. “As we continue to be more intertwined, it is important for our community to connect and support others globally,” he says. “As part of this, we should be celebrating the cultures and fashion around the world, and continue to broaden our horizons.”
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— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) November 4, 2020
Momentous occasions abound under his watch, including this year’s August ‘Reset’ issue, covered by 14 captures of the British landscape as soothing balm, and, previously, securing the guest-editorship of Megan Markle HRH, Duchess of Sussex for the September issue in 2019. Despite being a Time magazine cover star himself this year, he nominates British Vogue’s December issue, featuring Beyoncé, as 2020’s apogee. “It was always going to be special, but following a 12-hour shoot the end result was flawless. She gave a rare and rounded glimpse into her world” he reflects. “As 2020 draws to a close, the story was filled with positivity and celebration for the fashion industry. For me it represents both the upheaval of this year and our hope for the future.”
He‘s equally upbeat optimistic about an inclusive future, but acknowledges that, “to keep moving forward we need better education, we need to improve recruiting methods and we need more people working behind the scenes to ensure we have equal opportunities and liberation for all in the future.”
He hopes the industry will transform itself into a truly diverse, inclusive and sustainable one, and that he will be able to play a significant part in this. “I believe we are seeing a shift but we need to keep making strides towards a better future. I will continue to share the array of voices within British Vogue and we will champion the individuals and brands who are driving these changes forward.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Adwoa Aboah, Activist, model and founder of Gurls Talk
“It has created a new fire in my belly,” says Adwoa Aboah speaking about Gurls Talk, the online community she built. The concept of connection and empathy for one another is something the 28-year-old British mental health campaigner and model has for a long time known the importance of. “It has reiterated to me that I’m not alone in what I want and what I feel.”
Across podcasts, articles, videos, social media and recently an ambassador program that will allow input on programs and initiatives, Aboah has mulled education, sexuality, mental health, gender equality and racism, through good old-fashioned conversation. With a crucial focus on the mental health effects of the pandemic, she continues to reset the agenda.
Breaking into the modelling world with a 2015 Vogue Italia cover, and since fronting campaigns and walking for major houses, these days she’s as likely to grace Vogue as she is Time magazine.
In her work, she keeps in mind Rebecca Solnit’s words: “We are, as a culture, moving to a future with more people and more voices and more possibilities. Some people are being left behind, not because the future is intolerant of them but because they are intolerant of this future.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Jameela Jamil, Activist, actor and founder of I Weigh
If anyone was well-equipped to deal with the turbulent waters of 2020, it’s 34-year-old English activist and actor Jameela Jamil. Recognised for her role as Tahani in The Good Place, and recently as a judge on HBO’s vogueing and ballroom contest Legendary, Jamil has not shied away from speaking out on complex issues, and neither have her critics.
The cacophony of voices that react to her stances on feminism, beauty standards and universal equality leave her unfazed — and resolute in making change. Case in point, her 2020 highlight: “The day I was able to get [Facebook-owned] Instagram to change a global policy to protect minors online from seeing harmful detox and diet products.” She has long campaigned with her self-founded body positivity outfit, I Weigh, for a shift in mainstream mindsets. “It gives me great pride to disrupt the narrative that women have to be forever thin, young and perfectly behaved,” she says.
The former radio personality and writer acknowledges there’s work to do, but says, “[The] way in which the worship of celebrity and influencers has fallen away is really exciting. Our value system has shifted away from a capitalist rat-race and towards a more equitable and wholesome road to happiness. What we previously found aspirational, we now find tacky. It’s exciting.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Nyome Nicholas-Williams, Model
When professional photos, in which she was partly nude, were removed from her Instagram account in July, UK-based model Nyome Nicholas-Williams began a campaign to fight against racial bias and double standards within the app. She then encouraged thousands of followers to share the hashtag #IWantToSeeNyome to normalise diverse bodies on — and off — Instagram and call for change. It worked. In August, Vishal Shah, the company’s vice president of product, announced they would reevaluate its policies and eliminate bias, a move which came into effect in October with Instagram and Facebook both stating they would allow “content where someone is simply hugging, cupping or holding their breasts”.
It’s shown Nicholas-Williams that anybody can be a powerful force for change and it’s up to individuals to do the work. “Staying silent is no longer the option,” she says. “A glass ceiling has been shattered with this victory and now the only way to go is up and for black fat bodies to continue to flourish in spaces we have been shut out of.” She is hopeful that her own industry takes heed. “If the goal of modern fashion is to accurately reflect society and be inclusive to show that, then there needs to be evidence of progression towards that goal.” Her advice for others? “Have a sustainable long-term vision that is plausible and non-tokenistic.” — JEN NURICK
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Janaya Future Khan, Black Lives Matter ambassador
Janaya Future Khan is a Black Lives Matter international ambassador and self-described futurist, organiser and storyteller. But for the thousands of followers they have accumulated, who tune in to their Sunday Sermons on Instagram, Khan’s activism has become something more: a voice of hope.
In a turbulent year, the Canadian-born activist, based in Los Angeles, has rallied in support of marginalised communities, especially those whose experience of discrimination invokes both their gender and race. “In a world that is fair and equitable, we would all know the margins just enough to ensure that everyone has what they need,” Khan says.
In order to fight systemic oppression, they believe we have to rethink ourselves outside of traditional frameworks — a process of unlearning Khan is witnessing now. “It is the beginning of something new and we are grappling with what that looks like, what our bottom lines are and what we are willing to fight for,” Khan says, noting that revolution can begin at dinner tables, classrooms or women’s shelters.
The key to meaningful change? Listening. “Activism has something supernatural about it; it requires channelling something deeper inside of you that can only be reached in the service of others.” — JEN NURICK
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Grace Forrest, Co-founder and director of Walk Free
“Working to protect the rights of the world’s most vulnerable people, in the thick of a global pandemic, is kind of like trying to drink from a fire hydrant,” Perth-born slavery abolitionist Grace Forrest says. Circumspect about the pandemic being the crucial issue of 2020, Covid-19’s global reach has not distracted Forrest from her cause, but rather kept her eagle eye trained on what is going on in the darker reaches of the labour industry, including in fashion.
In a recently released report, ‘Stacked Odds’, Walk Free found that one in every 130 women and girls had experienced living in conditions of modern slavery. The last 12 months for Forrest have crystallised the gendered impacts of slavery and seen her present work to the World Economic Forum and the United Nations Security Council urging conviction in the face of divisive forces, solipsistic nationalism and rising fear of the ‘other’.
“Yet,” she says, “we have seen a continuum of global conversations, uniting a [global] community.” Travel is out for now, but she’s pleased to see how easy it is to connect via technology, though she noted a lingering familiar feeling. “Turns out endless Zoom calls in different time zones have a pretty similar effect to jet lag!” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Vanessa Nakate, Climate justice activist and founder of Rise Up Movement
In 2020 we have shared a foe, but Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate reminds us that we’ve experienced the pandemic unequally. “We may be in the same storm, but we are in different boats,” she says, pointing out marginalised communities, women, those who are disabled and Indigenous populations are more vulnerable to natural disasters.
The 24-year-old’s year started with an incident in which she was cropped out of a photo of all-white climate activists, including Greta Thunberg. Undeterred, she kept working to tell of the interconnectedness climate change has with other issues. “Many girls in the Global South are exposed to early marriages, early pregnancies, because their families give them up for marriage since they can’t take care of them anymore as they’ve lost everything to climate change,” she explains.
The stories she tells are wrenching — children increasingly at the mercy of floodwaters blocking their route to school, raised risk of miscarriage in higher temperatures — but she is re-energised when she looks to her peers. “My hope is in the young people and in the fact that they are not ready to give up. They’re tomorrow’s decision-makers, they’re tomorrow’s negotiators. They know the facts. They know the science.”
Now she’s also holding out for a reply to a letter sent to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on American climate action. “Hopefully I will get a response,” she says. — ALICE BIRRELL
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Jess Hill, Winner of 2020 Stella Prize
When investigative journalist Jess Hill set out to write See What You Made Me Do, a non-fiction tome on power, control and domestic abuse, she told her publisher it would be ready in six months. “That didn’t happen,” says Hill on realising her own blind spots surrounding the complex subject. “I wanted this to be analytically unassailable, but I was also determined to make people feel what it was like to experience domestic abuse, and even to perpetrate it.”
The Walkley Award-winning journalist’s debut book was released in June last year to critical acclaim, but received a second wave of attention after taking out this year’s Stella Prize for women’s writing. Not only was the accolade awarded for Hill’s relentless research and accurate storytelling, but also recognised the platform it offered to those silenced by a lack of understanding and systems in place to deal with family violence.
“Millions of people in this country are thoroughly misunderstood by friends and family, and misrepresented by and within our systems. I made it my mission to change that,” says Hill on her motivation to shine a light on the subject of domestic abuse. “The project is gigantic, but the solutions exist. We can fix this.” — REMY RIPPON
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Allyson Felix, Olympic gold medallist and maternal rights activist
She may be the most decorated female track and field athlete of all time, with nine Olympic medals (six gold, three silver) and 12 world titles to her name, but even that didn’t stop Allyson Felix from having her maternal rights challenged because she dared to be both an athlete and a mother.
In 2019, following the birth of daughter Camryn, Felix penned an op-ed about how her long-time sponsor Nike wanted to pay her 70 per cent less in her new contract, despite being one of their most widely marketed athletes. “Changes had to be made … I was thinking about my daughter and the future I wanted for her, my fellow female athletes, for women across industries everywhere,” says the 35-year-old of her stance, which sparked public outcry and a congressional inquiry. “I knew it was a risk, but the change I wanted wouldn’t happen from keeping my head down.”
Within months Nike announced a new maternity policy, but Felix had moved on to Athleta. This year she fronted the brand’s Power of She campaign, while continuing to train for her fifth Olympics in Tokyo 2021. “Power of She is all about celebrating the power of women and girls coming together and igniting them to be strong, healthy and to reach their limitless potential — within themselves and in their communities,” Felix explains. “It has been so rewarding to work with a brand that is committed to women and girls and champions them. Athleta supports me, not just as an athlete, but as a mother and activist, and I couldn’t ask for more.” — JESSICA MONTAGUE
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Aurora James, Founder and creative director of Brother Vellies
In the week following George Floyd’s murder, Aurora James sprung into action, launching the 15 Percent Pledge on Instagram. “We seek economic equality and prosperity for black business owners, black students, and black people in the workforce,” explains the 36-year-old.
The initiative urges retailers to pledge 15 per cent of their shelf space to black-owned businesses, and customers to commit 15 per cent of their monthly spending to black-owned businesses. James’s social media following, and her star turn on American Vogue’s September cover have only helped the cause.
“I’m grateful I have built an online community who are passionate and can be galvanised around changing the world,” she says. “The support has put pressure on retailers to acknowledge their responsibility.” It’s a huge undertaking, but one that accords with the work James has been doing with her company Brother Vellies since 2013. “[We’re] identifying groups who are creating beautiful things but are severely disadvantaged — then collaborating with them and advocating for their inclusion,” she says. — JEN NURICK
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Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui, Actors, writers and podcasters
When kindred spirits Miranda Tapsell (left) and Nakkiah Lui launched their first podcast Pretty for an Aboriginal in 2017, they shone a light on issues such as race, sex and relationships. In 2020, amid the Black Lives Matter movement and protests over Indigenous deaths in custody, the pair aired a new podcast, Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power, examining the role of debutante balls in Indigenous empowerment.
“It helps that a lot more non-Indigenous people are willing to listen and learn about the wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience,” says Tapsell on their success. “Because we normalise our lives for others and do it in such a heartfelt way, non-Indigenous people are drawn into the conversations they are normally scared to have.”
It’s that connection that Lui also cites as crucial to engagement. “Podcasting is such an intimate medium that relies on honesty and good storytelling. The questions we are asking and the journey we go on, we are going on with the listeners: we are just as curious,” she says. “I also think the way Miranda and I explore the world together as friends makes many of the themes and issues we talk about — which can be complex and heavy — accessible for our audience.”
She adds: “We need to normalise uncomfortable conversations because without questioning culture, we can’t create change. If you can contribute to the world just by having conversations, that’s a privilege and a legacy we need to continue. I want to continue the legacy that was created for me. I want to make sure the door stays open and I help pave the way for other First Nations women.”
For Tapsell, her motivation is simple: love. “Love for my community, love for my families, love for myself. Making stories that uplift Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders brings me so much fulfilment and happiness. For me, it’s like breathing.”
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Julia Gillard, Former PM and chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London
A decade after Julia Gillard took office as our first female Prime Minister, she found herself in headlines again — but this time for being a TikTok star, following users posting their own mashed-up versions of her famous misogyny speech. Becoming a social media star may not have been in this year’s plans, but an amused Gillard insists, “I am very pleased and proud that my 2012 words still resonate today as a bit of a battle anthem for young women who know the world is still sexist and are so determined to change it”.
Reflecting upon her “current portfolio career”, in 2020 Gillard also released the second series of her hugely popular A Podcast of One’s Own (which has featured Hillary Clinton and Cate Blanchett) as part of her role as chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership. After questioning her own experience in politics, she also published Women and Leadership, a book based on interviews with the world’s top female leaders including Jacinda Ardern and Theresa May.
“I felt compelled to write the book because I want us to be able to answer those questions in a systematic way looking at the experiences of women leaders around the world and share what is learned with women who will lead in the future,” she says.
As for what continues to drive her advocacy, she says it’s two things: “Belief, because for all my adult life, I have been passionate about ending discrimination on the basis of gender. [And] experience, because I know from my own life that we can call out and defeat sexism and misogyny.” — JESSICA MONTAGUE
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Dameyon Bonson, Founder of Black Rainbow
In spite of countless challenges, Dameyon Bonson is surely and steadily blazing a trail for the Indigenous LGBTQI community. He explains: “I am a third-year Masters of Suicidology student, and it is believed that I am the only Indigenous LGBT person with that level of qualification globally.” He is also the founder of Black Rainbow, a social enterprise committed to the health, wellbeing and suicide prevention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who identify as LGBTQI+SB (Sistergirl and Brotherboy).
“[Black Rainbow was] born out of strangers coming together, dedicated to providing space and opportunity,” he says. “We are constantly shaped by the needs of the community that we hear, that we experience, and do what we can as a group of unpaid volunteers.” While studying, Bonson is working to develop new suicide prevention programs and put a stop to homophobia and racism in health systems. He says his academic and lived experiences go hand-in-hand, and serve as a reminder of the mission at large. “Even though at times the work can be quite lonely and isolating, we are not in isolation,” he says. “We are a community of people stepping up to the plate.” — JEN NURICK
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Celeste Barber, Actor, comedian and writer
Up until early 2020, the world knew Celeste Barber as the actor and comedian who posted hilarious #celestechallengeaccepted images and videos on Instagram. But this year, after her remarkable fundraising efforts, she became an international hero for the Australian bushfire relief effort.
“Those fires were completely terrifying — so much destruction, so much loss,” she says. “I just did anything I could to help.” Launching her fundraising campaign for the Rural Fire Service and Brigades Donations Fund trust on Facebook in early January, Barber rallied donors from across the globe to raise a staggering $51 million. “We are more powerful than we know,” she says, reflecting on the achievement. “It can be so daunting to see politicians or super rich people telling you what needs to happen in the community, but at the end of the day that’s for us — we all have a voice and red tape is just that.”
Although the past year has been challenging, it’s also brought memorable highs for Barber. “I was on a flight back from America and the flight attendants thanked me for my work over the loudspeaker and the whole plane started clapping,” she says. “I bawled like a baby.”
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Meg Lanning, Captain of the Australian cricket team
There are few Australian sportspeople who are as dominant and consistent as Meg Lanning. Under immense pressure, the steely 28-year-old led the national women’s T20 cricket team to World Cup victory this year at the MCG on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day.
The showdown with India (who beat Australia in its opening match) came complete with Katy Perry performing feminist anthems and a world record attempt for attendance at a women’s sporting match. While the attempt fell agonizingly short, more than 86,000 spectators still erupted as Lanning lifted the trophy for the host country.
“There certainly was a lot of pressure and a lot of chat about the final and it being on International Women’s Day and aiming for that 90,000 mark. Obviously we wanted to be part of it,” recalls Lanning. “That final gave us a really good platform to inspire the next generation and show young girls there is a pathway to elite sport and that there are really big opportunities to be involved in great sporting events.”
With a decade of national representation and more than 150 matches to her name, Lanning — who is also a dominant batsman who makes headlines for her record-breaking plays at the crease — shows no signs of complacency.
“Next thing on my and the team’s radar is winning that 50-over World Cup, which unfortunately has been postponed to 2022. That’s the trophy that’s not in the cabinet at the moment and I know we’re all very driven to achieve that.” — JESSICA MONTAGUE
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Eva Kruse, Chief executive of Global Fashion Agenda
“Fashion shows have not changed in the last roughly 50 years,” surveys Eva Kruse, the woman behind the Global Fashion Agenda, one of the industry’s premier bodies advocating for a sustainable future. “It’s time to rethink how we want the fashion industry to be, and take active steps to get there.”
For the founder of Copenhagen Fashion Summit, 2020 fast-tracked the collective realisation that the current system is on an environmentally decimating streak. “Sometimes it takes a crisis like Covid-19 to bring everyone together, but in that sense, I have been especially amazed at how willing people are to talk and discuss the need for our industry to change,” she says.
This year’s summit theme was ‘redesigning value’, which aims to spring-clean the way we see our clothes. Kruse saw the same ethos in this year’s ‘rewiring fashion’ initiative — a designer-led conversation “about how we have found ourselves facing a fashion system that is both less conducive to genuine creativity and serves the interests of no one, not even our planet”.
The thing that sustains her after years of work spent pushing leaders and consumers to do better? “I cannot be part of any world, society or industry without wanting to try to foster positive change.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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Hannah Gadsby, Comedian and writer
Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette brought the Australian comedian, writer and actor global recognition when it streamed on Netflix two years ago. The show, in which she explores her trauma as a gay woman growing up in a sexist and homophobic world, upended the conventions of stand-up and earned wide critical acclaim.
While Gadsby drolly describes her latest show Douglas (in which she reveals her autism diagnosis) as her “difficult second album”, its release this year has also garnered positive reviews.
“Given that Douglas dropped in the middle of a pandemic and an historic civil rights reckoning … I haven’t really been following myself terribly closely,” admits Gadsby of the response it has received. “But I am relieved, and proud, to report that a great many from the neurodivergent community have taken the time to let me know that they picked up what I put down, and liked it.”
With much of 2020 spent self-isolating in the countryside, Gadsby acknowledges the contradictions of her life right now. “I tend to do well when I have routine but badly in the midst of uncertainty. So, I am doing badly existentially, but very well as an individual unit,” she quips.
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Dame Jane Goodall, Primatologist, anthropologist and founder of Jane Goodall Institute
Meet ‘Virtual Jane’. She’s a 2020 product: resides in Bournemouth, England, but dwells, these days, totally online, Skyping, podcasting and sending video messages to chimpanzee sanctuaries around the world. “I am now busier than I have ever been in my life,” says her off-screen counterpart, the very real and formidable Dame Jane Goodall.
The octogenarian, who defined modern conservation, has found herself working today with more fervour than her 26-year-old self who embarked for Tanzania, binoculars in hand, to study wild chimpanzees. With unprecedented weather events, she is trying to help us forge a better relationship with the environment. “It is true that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” she says, “but there is greater awareness about this than ever before. And more organisations and individuals are trying to fight the destruction.”
And while she remains physically grounded, she can dream of where she’d rather be. “Tomorrow, I would love to be alone in the Gombe forest, hearing the sound of the birds and insects, the barking of baboons, the calling of chimpanzees. And then sitting in the evening on the beach, looking across Lake Tanganyika towards the glorious African sunset with a tot of whisky — scotch — raising my glass to all who are working to make this a better world. Before it is too late.” — ALICE BIRRELL
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This story appears in Vogue’s December issue, which appeared on newsstands on Monday, December 14.