Golden Globes 2019: Time’s Up Shows Up on Pins and Bracelets

Last year’s Golden Globes “blackout” — when nearly every attendee was draped in black — was an undeniable act of solidarity with the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.

But on Sunday night’s red carpet, the energy surrounding the issue of workplace sexual harassment and holding those in power accountable was dialed way back (though certainly more present than at the Emmys Awards in September, where the issue was eerily absent).

At the Globes celebrities, including the hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, donned black-and-white bracelets and ribbons that read #TimesUpx2 that were designed by Arianne Phillips, who created last year’s Time’s Up pins.

“What a difference a year makes,” Phillips posted on Instagram on Saturday along with a photo of the accessories.

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Ahead of the show, the actress Rachel Brosnahan, wearing a ribbon, said: “While we’re still fighting for safety and equity in the workplace, those are symptoms of a larger problem of an imbalance of power” — the message attached to the new #TimesUpx2 hashtag. She is nominated for best actress for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” an award she won last year. Her husband, Jason Ralph, wore a bow tie he said he fashioned on the spot from one of the ribbons.

Elsewhere on the carpet, Laura Dern’s daughter Jaya, 14, said: “I want my generation to not have to say #MeToo.” Dern is nominated for “The Tale.”

In her opening comments, Oh, choking up, took a moment from the gags to say: “I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change. And I’m not fooling myself. I’m not fooling myself. Next year could be different. It probably will be. But right now, this moment is real.”

The camera scanned to the faces of women in the audience, particularly those of women of color.

In a statement last week, Time’s Up, which aims to address systemic inequality and injustice in the workplace, said it had been contacted for help by more than 3,800 men and women in the last year. For its second year, the organization is calling for the number of women in leadership roles throughout all industries to be doubled.

“We created the fund because all people deserve to be safe at work, but safety alone is far from our end goal,” the statement read. “It’s the bare minimum. Sexual harassment stems from an imbalance of power. Issues of workplace safety for women, and especially for women of color, are but a symptom of the power imbalance that plagues nearly every sector. We won’t stop fighting until there is gender balance in leadership and all women have the opportunity to reach their full potential at work.”

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