Sasheer Zamata: “Women Are Fighting for Equal Treatment, Not Superior Treatment”

Sasheer Zamata was recently named ACLU’s newest celebrity ambassador on women’s rights. The Saturday Night Live comedian speaks with The Hollywood Reporter about her new role. Zamata said she decided to become an ACLU ambassador because she wanted to work with an organization fighting for the equal treatment of people in the U.S. One of the challenges the modern day women’s rights movement faces, said Zamata in an email exchange, is people outside the movement “misinterpreting its goals so they can refute the need for women’s rights.” Read More…