Much in the same spirit of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement or comedian Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party (SGATP), four Brooklyn and upstate New York-based women are also celebrating women. Filmmakers Keiko Wright, Jamie Li, Rekha Shankar and Samantha Knowles created Ladypoints, a pilot webseries profiling diverse women in New York who are passionate about their chosen art and careers.
“While it’s important to highlight women who have found themselves in industries where women are a small minority, it’s also important that we don’t show these women assimilating into these industries and doing things the way they’ve always been done,” Li said. “We want to highlight women who are doing things differently and defining success in their own terms.”
The concept of Ladypoints is similar to the concept of earning brownie points. Ladypoints are shoutouts or hypothetical high fives given to people when their everyday choices, no matter how big or small, promote “women’s agency and independence.” For example, following your passions or helping another woman achieve her goal.
