The Financial Times has released their list of and profiles for their “25 most influential women of 2022.” The FT’s list includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Finland’s prime minister Sanna Marin, Serena Williams, Mackenzie Scott, Michelle Yeoh, Billie Eilish and the women of Iran. Well, the Duchess of Sussex made the list. They use her maiden name for some reason – the Financial Times is a British publication, you would think that they would use Meghan’s title. Meghan is under the FT’s “creators” banner in their influential list, and they’ve labeled her “Podcaster | Voice at the storm’s centre.” Author Yomi Adegoke wrote Meghan’s short profile:
Meghan Markle has become a symbol of resilience for many silenced women. Specifically speaking, for women of colour and, even more specifically, mixed-race and black women. Her experience within the royal family resonated with those who have had to navigate historically white, elitist institutions that are, at best, not built with them in mind and, at worst, outwardly hostile.
The royal family is an establishment largely maintained through silence and complicity. It’s this, in part, that makes Meghan’s choice to use her voice so powerful. This year she launched a podcast, Archetypes, where she interrogates the labels used to contain and inhibit women – fitting, given the projection and smears she has endured from the press. For the black community in particular, it was hard to watch her demonisation by the British media and public. But seeing her come into her own, and use her platform to speak about what matters to her, has sent a message even louder than she may have intended.
Something I think about often is how quickly Meghan saw the overarching theme of her time in the royal family, which is that she would be silenced, that her voice was taken from her, that the palace and the press believed they could solely define her as this angry woke diva who “stole” their ginger prince. Once Harry and Meghan broke away, the institutions have been in full panic mode at the reality that Meghan and Harry can use their voices, can tell their stories whenever and however they want. I’ve enjoyed the Archetypes podcast and I hope she does a second season, and I hope she does additional pods too. I basically hope that she and Harry do everything – write books, give interviews, do podcasts, make documentaries, talk about their passions and interests and just live their own f–king lives far away from Salt Island.
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Stealing that thunder again. Love it.
Meghan, Meghan, Meghan…the woman that you are!!!
Nice to see media be on her side for once
It is the nasty coverage from the British media and the Royal Family themselves that validates Meghan’s experience. She is brilliant at using her own experience to bring to light what women of colour face and the extreme racism that runs through the UK. It takes incredible strength to successfully call out racism with such skill and finesse. She is intelligent, articulate and does her homework, something the BRF fails at time and time again leaving them looking like fools and fossils. The idea of Charles modernizing the monarchy is hilarious if not ridiculous. The whole institution needs to be put to pasture.
Harry and Meghan are the living, breathing embodiment of the saying “The best revenge is a life well-lived.”
100% this! Living their lives well and fully, loving each other and their family, and leaving the world better than they found it is all I can wish for them. And they are doing it!
Completely Agree!
You see, this is it in a nutshell. When the trailer dropped I made the mistake of reading some of the soul-destroying youtube comments; I read the typical DM comments; Renae pointed me in the direction of the awful Mirror comments. A poster on here said yesterday that it’s like we’re in an alternate universe. But H&M are getting the proper recognition. And this is where it hurts K&W. They can have all the millions of reactionary supporters they get, but what they would actually give millions for is H&M’s profile and type of supporters. They can’t even reach beyond some parts of the UK and the British fodder press, let alone onto the world stage.
Honestly even the comments on Celebitchy’s facebook aren’t always great about Meghan. I truly wonder how these people find/see these posts because they clearly don’t actually read the rest of the site. So who are they and why do they feel the need to comment?
I’m sure part of the bot package includes the occasional foray to one of the few Meghan positive sites out there.
I didn’t know this. I don’t do facebook or real social media, which is why I’m always asking people to link me to twitter bits and pieces. Sometimes I see posts on here saying the usual generic bot comment such as “Kate is stunning” without a full post. Sad. I still think W&K would like to have the supporters on here rather than the ones they get! If they were happy with their lot they wouldn’t be copying M&H so much.
I’ve been wondering about that myself. Comments made here are so different from the comments made on Celebitchy FB. It’s so disheartening reading negative comments.
It may be technologically easier for Kaiser to moderate CB proper than to moderate the CB Facebook presence.
The blockbuster Meghan hits keep coming! The most delicious part is they’re dropping while the Dull Duo are in Boston pretending to be relevant. It must hurt that FT is also a UK paper; not a tabloid where W&K thrive with their deplorable supporters.
It was an FT journalist based in Beijing who tweeted that they can’t wait until they could report honestly about William. That tweet was later deleted unfortunately.
Cue the Salt Island melt down in 3… 2… 1…
+1000
I understand places like People magazine KNOW their proper names but use “Meghan Markle”, “Kate Middleton” and “Princess Meghan/Kate” for SEO, but Financial Times?? That honestly surprises me. I figure they’d have more strict standards of journalistic accuracy than the pop culture shorthand used by tabloids and social media fan.
Hmmm. My initial response to this was a bit different: That the FT is going out of their way to indicate that Meghan’s “influence “ can’t simply be attributed to her married-in title — it’s about who she’s is and who she has been all along.
Perhaps, but it’s not actually her name. Nor is it a name that she herself uses professionally. (As opposed to someone like JLo who said her name is now Jennifer Affleck but continues to put out content as Jennifer Lopez.) Meghan has given no such permission and done no such thing.
I’ve found it really interesting to watch her/them sidestep the Duchess last name issue. The podcast is labeled as “with Meghan” and ends with “as ever, I’m Meghan”, the Netflix is just called “Harry & Meghan”, etc. I suspect she’d happily ditch the Duchess bit and go by Meghan Mountbatten-Winsor to match the kids, if it wouldn’t start a massive sh*tstorm with the press and give a ton of people a ton of satisfaction.
@molly, that’s the part that cracks me up when people rant and rave about how they should give up their titles etc. Okay, then she’s Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor, how’s that?!?! lol
Becks1, or they say, well, I guess we’ll call her Princess Meghan. That gets their ire up.
I think that they ought to use the last name Sussex professionally.
I will say no Molly
Live and love your best life Meghan! Kinda adore that she’s showing us all how it’s done. Meghan’s positive influence is undeniable. 💕 🖖
Meanwhile royal reporters and bloggers have people in the U.K. convinced that anytime they talk they’re somehow being hypocritical to saying the press was a reason for leaving. Gaslighting a country that being smeared daily and simultaneously silenced is exactly the same as choosing to speak in your own time.
And the Times had someone reviewing her podcasts and just the dramatic anti-MM clickbait titles gave me anxiety until I blocked them in the news app. I feel like I’m on a countdown until the undercurrent of misogynoir means I have to move countries to keep my mental health in good shape.
I love this. I love the line about white elitist institutions that are, at best, not built with POC in mind and at worst, openly hostile. I think we all see now where the Firm lands on that spectrum.
Wow those too are like an Advent calendar recently, every day some great new suprise!
Love wins.
A british pulication wrote this? Ha ha ha ha… Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the drab four finds out.
They tried to break her, silence her and dim her light in every way they could. Now she’s shining brighter than ever! Way to go Meghan!
When it’s who you are, you can’t be stopped. It’s who she has always been, and it’s beautiful to witness after all of the racist smears.
Awesome. You know they are going to be soooo salty over this one. I honestly am glad they didn’t use her title though. Then the lunatic royalist can’t claim she got it because of her title.
Yomi Adegoke’s profile nailed it. Two years ago on this site, I posted that we should all get ready for Meghan and Prince Harry because the covid-19 lockdown was keeping us from seeing their full potential.
This is just the beginning, and I look forward to their ascendancy with each project.
“For the black community in particular, it was hard to watch her demonisation by the British media and public. ”
This is the part I think all of Salty Isle might be missing. It’s not just been hard to watch for POC, I am a white chick from the midwest (originally, not now), and I can feel the scorn about how we are all too “woke” to really understand England and the monarchy. They drip scorn on every single thing that is not kissed by God, in their fairy tale where they are actually more special than every single other person, and it has utterly repulsed those of us who have been watching carefully. Maybe react to that part, British media, and see where it takes you next.
An intelligent and articulate woman like Meghan Markle who is not afraid to speak her mind, and expose vile racism,will be deliberately misunderstood by upper class press by manipulating and falsifying reports.Ascendency of women of color breaks the mind of white race as rise of Obama to the most powerful office,a Black man in the White House was Apocalyptic for Republicans .
This is a very good recognition, considering that the FT skews conservative and establishment. When we see the vitriol spewed, a lot of it has nothing to do with their current life but the remnants of whatever they think Meghan did “ wrong” in the palace, which was refuse to be dehumanized and tokenized. Hope she continues to make her mark positively.