Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on Gutsy’s Queer Visibility and Being Vulnerable
advocate.comIn their compelling new series Gutsy, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton amplify women from around the country and beyond who live their lives with grit and fearlessness often amid trying circumstances.
The eight-episode odyssey now airing on Apple TV+ takes viewers from a bowling alley with Wanda Sykes to a drag prom in Arkansas to the wilds of the Catskills where Chelsea learns to rappel.Born out of their 2019 The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, which profiles women in history like Harriet Tubman and Clara Barton along with modern-day changemakers like Malala Yousafzi and Greta Thunberg, Gutsy the series is an intersectional journey of empowerment that is also deeply heartwarming and funny.
That’s due in large part to the abiding mother-daughter relationship the former secretary of State and her daughter have formed.
But it’s also because Hillary and Chelsea Clinton eschew the fly-on-the-wall approach to storytelling and instead immerse themselves in the worlds of their subjects with refreshing wonder while at the same time knowing when to merely listen.A moment in their episode about the gutsiness of loving someone else finds mother and daughter at a group for widows where one woman shares that she lost her wife and what it meant to them to finally be afforded the right to wed.
