Henson first thanked opening performer Lizzo for donating $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood before using the singer’s song titled “About Damn Time” to clarify it.
“It’s time to put ourselves in our power,” Henson said. “It’s time to talk about the fact that guns have more rights than a woman. It’s a sad day in America.”
“A weapon that can take lives has more power than a woman that can give life if it wants to,” Henson added.
This feeling was on the minds of many women in the entertainment industry around the world. Over the weekend at the Glastonbury Music Festival in England, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and several other artists on Friday criticized the Supreme Court ruling, which overturned a woman’s constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy afterwards. of almost half a century.
At the BET Awards, singer and actress Janelle Monáe presented the first prize of the night, Best Female Artist / R&B, and acclaimed black artists, especially women.
“Possessing our truth and expressing ourselves freely and without apology in a world that tries to control and control our bodies, my body and our decisions,” he said. “My decision. Fuck you, Supreme Court.”
Jazmine Sullivan won the award and during her acceptance speech she addressed the men of the world.
“Right now is a difficult time for us [women] and I want to talk directly to men, “Sullivan said.” We need you all. We need you all to bet on us, stay with us. If you’ve ever benefited from a woman making one of the hardest decisions of her life, which is terminating a pregnancy, you have to be with us. ”
“This isn’t just a women’s issue,” she said. “That’s everyone’s problem. And we need you more than ever.”