Photo: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazineAmanda Gormanis manifesting a future in the White House.The 23-year-old, who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration earlier this year,confirmed toWSJ. Magazinein the women’s fall fashion issue, hitting newsstands September 4th, that she fully intends to run for president in 2036, as she’s said in previous interviews.“I think to make the impossible more proximate, you have to treat it as if it’s in reaching distance,” said Gorman, later adding, “I’ve always understood the potential of the presidency or political office to both be terrific and also toxic and terrible.““I used to think about it in the more traditional sense of, okay, we’re going to do this poetry thing for a little bit, and then you’re going to put the pen down and switch over to politics,” she said. “Being able to talk to people like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, I realized I don’t have to change who I am to be a leader. If anything, those qualities will be what become my strength when I bring them into my field.“She added, “It’s often language makers who create a rhetoric for movement. They create a new type of dialect in which people can communicate shared dreams even if those shared dreams have yet to be realized.“PHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazinePHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazineWant to get the biggest stories fromPEOPLEevery weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day,to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday.Gorman, who hassigned to IMG Models, also mused that fashion and art is a form of politics.“All art is political. I would say especially fashion. I think about what it meant for the Black Panthers to wear tilted berets, what it meant for African-Americans to show up in their Sunday best while marching during the civil rights movement. And what it’s meant to wear rainbow colors in terms of queerness. What it’s meant to wear white as a feminist,” she explained. “I love getting to find more superpowers in what I wear.“Former First LadyMichelle ObamatoldWSJ. Magazineabout Gorman: “Looking at her, I see someone who can help us draw even closer to a better, more inclusive America — someone who will use her identity as a Black woman and her ability to connect with others to help reshape and repair the world around us.“Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazineGormantold PEOPLE in March about howshe used to have one kind of idea of her political future and how that changed.“When I was at Harvard, I thought I would have to go down this kind of more orthodox path of ‘Okay, so I’ll go to law school and then maybe I’ll run for local public office,’ " she said at the time. “Now I realized that perhaps my path will be a different one, that it might be performing my poetry and touching people that way, and then entering public office from a platform that was built off of my beliefs and thoughts and ideas.“And she has a network of women politicians for support when the time comes for her to seek her own political future: “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom, and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own.”
Photo: Cass Bird for WSJ. Magazine
Amanda Gormanis manifesting a future in the White House.The 23-year-old, who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration earlier this year,confirmed toWSJ. Magazinein the women’s fall fashion issue, hitting newsstands September 4th, that she fully intends to run for president in 2036, as she’s said in previous interviews.“I think to make the impossible more proximate, you have to treat it as if it’s in reaching distance,” said Gorman, later adding, “I’ve always understood the potential of the presidency or political office to both be terrific and also toxic and terrible.““I used to think about it in the more traditional sense of, okay, we’re going to do this poetry thing for a little bit, and then you’re going to put the pen down and switch over to politics,” she said. “Being able to talk to people like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, I realized I don’t have to change who I am to be a leader. If anything, those qualities will be what become my strength when I bring them into my field.“She added, “It’s often language makers who create a rhetoric for movement. They create a new type of dialect in which people can communicate shared dreams even if those shared dreams have yet to be realized.“PHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazinePHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazineWant to get the biggest stories fromPEOPLEevery weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day,to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday.Gorman, who hassigned to IMG Models, also mused that fashion and art is a form of politics.“All art is political. I would say especially fashion. I think about what it meant for the Black Panthers to wear tilted berets, what it meant for African-Americans to show up in their Sunday best while marching during the civil rights movement. And what it’s meant to wear rainbow colors in terms of queerness. What it’s meant to wear white as a feminist,” she explained. “I love getting to find more superpowers in what I wear.“Former First LadyMichelle ObamatoldWSJ. Magazineabout Gorman: “Looking at her, I see someone who can help us draw even closer to a better, more inclusive America — someone who will use her identity as a Black woman and her ability to connect with others to help reshape and repair the world around us.“Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazineGormantold PEOPLE in March about howshe used to have one kind of idea of her political future and how that changed.“When I was at Harvard, I thought I would have to go down this kind of more orthodox path of ‘Okay, so I’ll go to law school and then maybe I’ll run for local public office,’ " she said at the time. “Now I realized that perhaps my path will be a different one, that it might be performing my poetry and touching people that way, and then entering public office from a platform that was built off of my beliefs and thoughts and ideas.“And she has a network of women politicians for support when the time comes for her to seek her own political future: “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom, and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own.”
Amanda Gormanis manifesting a future in the White House.
The 23-year-old, who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration earlier this year,confirmed toWSJ. Magazinein the women’s fall fashion issue, hitting newsstands September 4th, that she fully intends to run for president in 2036, as she’s said in previous interviews.
“I think to make the impossible more proximate, you have to treat it as if it’s in reaching distance,” said Gorman, later adding, “I’ve always understood the potential of the presidency or political office to both be terrific and also toxic and terrible.”
“I used to think about it in the more traditional sense of, okay, we’re going to do this poetry thing for a little bit, and then you’re going to put the pen down and switch over to politics,” she said. “Being able to talk to people like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, I realized I don’t have to change who I am to be a leader. If anything, those qualities will be what become my strength when I bring them into my field.”
She added, “It’s often language makers who create a rhetoric for movement. They create a new type of dialect in which people can communicate shared dreams even if those shared dreams have yet to be realized.”
PHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. MagazinePHOTO: Cass Bird for WSJ. Magazine
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Gorman, who hassigned to IMG Models, also mused that fashion and art is a form of politics.
“All art is political. I would say especially fashion. I think about what it meant for the Black Panthers to wear tilted berets, what it meant for African-Americans to show up in their Sunday best while marching during the civil rights movement. And what it’s meant to wear rainbow colors in terms of queerness. What it’s meant to wear white as a feminist,” she explained. “I love getting to find more superpowers in what I wear.”
Former First LadyMichelle ObamatoldWSJ. Magazineabout Gorman: “Looking at her, I see someone who can help us draw even closer to a better, more inclusive America — someone who will use her identity as a Black woman and her ability to connect with others to help reshape and repair the world around us.”
Cass Bird for WSJ. Magazine
Gormantold PEOPLE in March about howshe used to have one kind of idea of her political future and how that changed.
“When I was at Harvard, I thought I would have to go down this kind of more orthodox path of ‘Okay, so I’ll go to law school and then maybe I’ll run for local public office,’ " she said at the time. “Now I realized that perhaps my path will be a different one, that it might be performing my poetry and touching people that way, and then entering public office from a platform that was built off of my beliefs and thoughts and ideas.”
And she has a network of women politicians for support when the time comes for her to seek her own political future: “I think that will begin with just discussions with them and really absorbing their wisdom, and then seeing how I can make that leadership and that path my own.”
source: people.com
