Every Time Taylor Swift Has Spoken Up About Political Issues
2012 interview, "I just figure I'm a 22-year-old singer and I don't know if people really want to hear my political views. I think they just kind of want to hear me sing songs about breakups and feelings."But by 2014, she was ready to embrace at least one label, calling herself a feminist in an interview with the Guardian."As a teenager, I didn't understand that saying you're a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities," the songstress said. "What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men.
And, now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means. For so long it's been made to seem like something where you'd picket against the opposite sex, whereas it's not about that at all."She continued, "Becoming friends with Lena [Dunham] — without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for — has made me realize that I've been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so."When the 2018 midterms rolled around, Swift broke her political silence.
She took to Instagram to endorse Tennessee Democrats Phil Bredesen (for Senate) and Jim Cooper (for the House of Representatives) against her home state's Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn.A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)"In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now," Swift wrote. "I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.
I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.
