{"id":27502,"date":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/kim-kardashian-cardi-b-politics\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"kim-kardashian-cardi-b-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/kim-kardashian-cardi-b-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Think Kim Kardashian and Cardi B Are Needed in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re living in an age when politics and pop culture are becoming one, carving out a new democratic sphere or celebrity fandom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this can be worrying (ahem, Trump), what I find particularly exciting about this phenomenon is the rise of POC and bi-cultural female celebrities in a space that\u2019s long been dominated by men.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it\u2019s reality TV mogul, and now law student, Kim Kardashian (who was made famous after her sex tape leaked) discussing prison reforms at the White House or stripper-turned-popstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/what-cardi-bs-incognito-outfit-means-for-french-muslims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardi B<\/a> interviewing Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders about raising the minimum wage and cancelling student debt \u2013 young women are finally breaking political silence and challenging the establishment like never before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have never been a fervent Kardashian supporter. I\u2019ve actually leant more towards actress and writer Jameela Jamil\u2019s stance, especially when she dubbed Kim a \u201cdouble agent for the patriarchy\u201d. But although the foremost Kardashian\u2019s sudden interest in prisoners\u2019 rights feels a bit odd (and the credit for these reforms should go to those who have tirelessly fought for them) her activism is redefining what\u2019s possible in politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/five-takeaways-social-media-and-youth-vote-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, more young people in America heard about the 2018 elections on social media than directly from campaigns, and those who engaged in political activity online tended do so in person too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust in traditional parties is evaporating. But that\u2019s not because young people like me are apathetic. We\u2019re just waiting for political leaders to<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> engage with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0hWEaKAa1x\/?hl=en<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in the current global political fog, hearing women like Kim and Cardi demand action might actually help some of us cure our disenchantment with politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrity narcissism can buy power and political influence \u2013 but if celebrities are ready to use their fame for good, then why not? One thing is for sure, I\u2019d rather have them represent me rather than a man.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re living in an age when politics and pop culture are becoming one, carving out a new democratic sphere or celebrity fandom. Although this can be worrying (ahem, Trump), what I find particularly exciting about this phenomenon is the rise of POC and bi-cultural female celebrities in a space that\u2019s long been dominated by men.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4416],"tags":[7305,11560,4437,11561,11562,4510,4408,11563,10247,8309,11564],"primary_tag":[11565],"ppma_author":[5549],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":5549,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sarahr","display_name":"Sarah Ben Romdane","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ce415233151c116db6ad3057b78081b0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27502"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=27502"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=27502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}