PIVOT's Weekend Of Women Celebrates Strong Female Directors & Characters #WOW

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[@SheMeetsCity]

@chescaleigh, I am just beyond proud of you. Several years ago I used to stalk your KZbin to watch you style your dreads and now you are such an inspiration to me! Not only are you funny, but the way you deliver news & the way you speak on important topics that affect women like me - its astounding!

[@GirlsLiftToo]

Next up:The Franchesca Ramsey Show

[@chescaleigh]

I'm trying!!!

[@FeliciaFollum]

+chescaleigh siiiiiccccckkkkk do it!

[@Ajst1987]

+GirlsLiftToo Yes please!

[@nanawilson5543]

+GirlsLiftToo We're with you!!

[@AhsanteB]

So exciting! Those black female creators are some of my faves as well

[@steven2928]

Congrats. I don't have Pivot but its great to see you doing so many amazing things.

[@AprilCMango]

And congrats on the job with Pivot!!

[@tacoboutit_]

I don't know why I'm getting excited but I'm just super proud of you!!!!! Congratsssss!! You're such a hard working woman and a inspiration to many. Keep it up and stay awesome!

[@chescaleigh]

+Drake Turner your excitement means a lot!

[@matydee]

Sadly Pivot is not available in my area but congratz on all the big things you are doing!!! I feel so blessed that I'm able to see so many young black people do such amazing things!

[@cecile8302]

You are amazing! Love your energy! Will definitely look for PIVOT in my area.

[@PivotTVnetwork]

+CeCe S You can find out here! get.pivot.tv

[@KristanceGlam]

#Wow! That's awesome, I can't wait to watch.

[@KINDALIKEOF]

My favorite fictional female characters are Veronica Mars from Veronica Mars, Olive from Easy A, Furiosa from Mad Max and the three best friends(Avery, Nina, Mel) from the book 'Bermudez triangle'.

[@ReadHeadPat]

Some of my favorite female characters: Skye/Daisy Johnson, Melinda May (both from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Peggy Carter from Agent Carter, Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road, Nomi and Amanita from Sense8, Poussey Washington from OITNB, Katniss Everdeen from THG, Mikasa from Attack on Titan....I generally just love bad ass ladies who aren't gonna take your shit lol.

[@portzblitz]

Good list! Cheers.

[@patr1ckk3ll3y]

Excited to see you working making your way to TV!! Hopefully you do something with HitRecord. I love everything that JGL is doing with the company and TV show!

[@chescaleigh]

+patr1ckk3ll3y it's suuuuch a good show! I'd love to work with him, he's super talented and I love that they're actually PAYING creators instead of just getting free work under the guise of promotion. That says a lot about his company and Pivot!

[@Queen-of-the-Burbs]

I love that channel! Wish I had it. Congrats on all your success.

[@Babygirl2986]

I just wanted to stop and say I am so proud of you. I know we don't know each other, but I truly and proud of you and happy for you. You started out making hair bids and skits here and there and now you're all over the TV and being all successful🙌. Go head girl lol!

[@h2opmayana]

I am so excited to see all the great things you are doing.You have worked hard and achieved soooo much. you inspire me. So you and all those women you named I enjoy as well. All best to you and Patrick.

[@dutyfreecritic]

That is pretty great that you got a chance to work on Decoded. I hope one day my youtube platform enables me to get opportunities like this. I would definitely watch this if it was offered on optimum :(.

[@Sirrahlala]

Oooh, Girl! Blowin up and I'm loving it! MTV should *hope* you're available for a second season, LMAO

[@chescaleigh]

+SirRahLa ha! riiiiight

[@MrVictorGrant]

Congrats on everything you're doing! I'm really excited for you! BUT ALSO Sept. 24!! I'm counting down the days I'm so excited! #HTGAWM

[@chescaleigh]

+Victor Grant omg i caaaaaaaan't wait

[@_Scotchie]

Franchesca... YOU ARE AWESOME!

[@Martina_E]

Congrats on everything! I'm glad you have all these opportunities coming up that are about empowering women! You rock! And your makeup on TV looked gorgeous :)

[@chescaleigh]

+(StyleME) StyleBitsnBobs thanks! the makeup artist was very talented. i wish i had someone to do my makeup every day! lol

[@Lilyanna298]

My favorite female characters - Marge (Fargo), Muriel and Rhonda (Muriels Wedding), main cop in The Killing (original series), Willow, Tara, Drusilla and Faith (Buffy), Anna (This Life), Mrs Doyle (Father Ted), Bridget Gregory (The Last Seduction), Carmela Soprano (annoying, but so well written), Alex Christiansen (The Secret Life of Us), the first Aunt Viv (Fresh Prince), Yvonne Aitkens (Bad Girls), Bridget Jones, Queen Elizabeth (as played by Cate Blanchett), Carol (Sparkhouse) and Felice (Aimee and Jaguar). I don't know writers well, but my favorites are Margaret Atwood, Abi Morgan, Jane Espenson, Helen Fielding and Connie Booth

[@amandareynolds-gregg5962]

Two of my favorite strong fictional women - Ellen Ripley from the Alien series and Sarah Connor from the Terminator series (specifically Linda Hamilton's portrayal)

[@MsEnigmabk]

Youre so beautiful inside and out. You have come such a long way. I wonder if you ever look at your old videos and tear up at how much grown since then ( career wise )? Love suporting you! :DDD

[@Most0riginalUsername]

Whoah you look really really happy here, you're pretty much glowing hahaha congratulations on this project, hope it goes amazing. I'm from outside the US, so i'll see if i can watch it online. Yay!! For How to get away with murder season 2, S O O N. Viola Davis is fantastic in it

[@YourKingofHearts]

Congrats Franchesca!!'

[@notmtvorbet]

Can't think of just one "real" woman but my favourite character is Pippi Longstocking haha, I always looked up to her as a kid, she made me feel like I could do anything I want even if I'm a girl + I can be strong af no matter what men say about being the strong gender 💪🏻

[@chescaleigh]

Captions are live!

[@nanawilson5543]

+chescaleigh You rule! Great work.Here is a lovely women who has been working hard doing everything by herself for years. Still under the radar but I'm doing all I can to push her. She's been doing her one woman show in Atlanta. atlantafringe.tumblr.com/post/83681118894/the-buzz-intro-interview-diane-johnstone-under Congratulations to YOU! Go Chesca!

[@mobspeak]

+chescaleigh Why disable thumbs?

[@KurtFan69]

+chescaleigh im sure you'll look as cute on tv as you always do in here

[@SolelyVanessa]

Congrats on your new ventures!

[@theflojournalmedia]

Chimamnda ngozi adichie (amazing writter and feminist), shameless Maya , Janelle monae along with issa Rae and many more

[@isendathinks7588]

Congrats!

[@drdnicebeaugelin]

you looked super hot and pretty in all the clips, not need to wait for us to watch the show to give that compliment...so excited for you

[@chescaleigh]

+Dr.D-Nice Beaugelin aw thank you!

[@juliacollazoactress]

Congrats!!

[@catk5857]

I would absolutely LOVE to watch this! How can people outside of the U.S do so? (In Ireland here).

[@78chaser]

Cheska, your look is killer! Tutorial please? Also, my favorite character would be Nimrat Kaur from the last season of homeland, adore her.

[@chescaleigh]

+Jesse thanks! i'm wearing a head wrap from locsoc and then i just threw some shimmery eyeshadow on and eyeliner. i tend to be pretty low maintenance but i'm trying to work on content for my beauty channel. it's been almost a year! i'm behind on homeland :( i need to watch the last season, i love that show

[@LaurenMca]

You are the most likable person ever!

[@ZekeMahogany]

Lori Silverbush is my favorite.

[@chescaleigh]

+ZekeMahogany ;) i see you!

[@AprilCMango]

For characters, my favorite women are Ginny and Molly Weasley, McGonagall, Helga Hufflepuff, Sukhvinder Jawanda (The Casual Vacancy), Sunny Baudelaire and Kit Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Celie (The Color Purple), and Lena (The Fosters, although I'm pretty behind on that show).

[@Ajst1987]

So loving the outro music by BKEEFE.

[@chescaleigh]

+Ajst1987 their stuff is so dope! i linked to them in the description if you wanna check out more!

[@Ajst1987]

chescaleigh Thanks a bunch!

[@LlovesLP]

Luci Liu in basically everything, but Elementary might be my fave.

[@BSMART18]

My favorite fictional character will forever and always be Storm (X-Men)!

[@sasukeeehhhhh2197]

So cool!!!

[@cecile8302]

Found it! Thx!😊

[@boho_sol]

Mine are Shonda Rhimes and then another woman who people may not know about is Angela Robinson. She just knows how to tell a clever story and can direct her ass off.

[@BlairWaldorf2013]

Melody Hobson, Ursula Burns, Misty Copeland, Dominique Dawes (gymnast throwback). Serena/Venus Williams (all the way from when they were wearing beads and only a few black people were even IN to tennis). I was 15 at that time and MAN it was so great to watch them at my age do it like it's never been done. Issa Rae FOR SURE #awkwardblackgirl just amazing to see her talent and the talent of her other content creators. Character wise: Clair from the Cosby Show first example that I can remember of a successful woman and wife dealing with real issues in a family. Living Single Entire Cast-just the whole dynamic of 4 friends living in a big city like NY (the ORIGINAL Sex and the City) main character Writes, best friend is outspoken and a Lawyer that finds it hard to be with men and lands on the most unlikely choice, another friend always searching for the perfect man, and her cousin. Annalise too just slays and not her for the BS.

[@cecilia08yeah]

love you and This is my kind of channel

[@cassandrar5127]

I enjoyed that show too.

[@discolives79ify]

Why does Optimum still not have this channel, oy

[@PivotTVnetwork]

+Nana Amuah You should go tell them that you need us in your life! get.pivot.tv

[@cutekitten12]

yea you looked really cute, I loved your hair.im gonna see if I can watch w.o.w somewhere else or if there a free preview of the channel with my net3. I sounds really fun, I wanna hear about the elephants too. hope you stay busy

[@lenisemicolon]

At the risk of sounding rude, for a second there I thought you were forced into styling your locs into a newscaster bob with a matching blazer for this gig, but your looks at the end disproved that theory. I thought you'd gone corporate! (Okay, rudeness over.)

[@chescaleigh]

+teenage spaceland ha! not rude at all, i did a bunch of different hairstyles. I just opted for my hair up instead of down because some of my curls were acting funky, so it was easier to hide those rouge pieces by putting my hair up.

[@BusyAsABree]

CANNOT WAIT FOR HTGAWM SEASON 2 OMFG

[@chescaleigh]

+Busy As A Bree i'm so ready!!

[@AmbroseReed]

You're everywhere right now! :D

[@TheKSChannel]

Nice one, GF!

[@lettajean4851]

YAY A NEW VIDEO... PLUS FIRST

[@theflojournalmedia]

Double duh lol

[@enkatt4115]

wow this sounds so great! I just wanna point one thing out tho: I think it's problematic to use the term "strong women". cus that indicates that not all women are strong. one would never use the same term for men and say these are films with "strong men" in the lead. just wanted to tell about my thoughts! and again I'm rly happy about the "weekend of women"! :)

[@chescaleigh]

+En Katt totally fair criticism. i think the goal in using "strong women" was an effort to contrast those stereotypical one dimensional roles we're used to seeing in Hollywood ie. vapid, "gold digging", violent, hyper sexual ect. The issue isn't sole that those characters exist (because of course women come in all differnt forms) but when those are the majority of roles out there for women, that does pose a problem. personally, i don't think not every female character is strong and that's ok. but when we have more diverse representations of women in movies and tv I think everyone wins. hope that makes sense and thanks for your feedback!

[@zaramackmusic]

yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!! :-)

[@KFCJones]

Lily Tomlin, Grandma. Boom.

[@nevertoooldtolearn1928]

Hope all went well......

[@edifyingartchannel6103]

you always look cute!

[@aorusaki]

wow this video much have gotten tons of dislikes that you disabled ratings.

[@AleyaMusic]

I'm so confused. Like, how did you go from giving loc tutorials to this? I've been watching you for years. This does not compute. Is it really because of "Shit White Girls Say"??? This is crazy. Happy for you but also just reeling. I'm sure you put in a lot of hard work but I'm real confused.

[@chescaleigh]

+AleyaMusic Ha! Well, long before loc tutorials and SWGSTBG I went to school for acting and worked as a stand up comedian. My goal has always been to work in tv. The ultimate dream is my own show. So I started making videos as a way to get my foot into the entertainment world when I found myself frustrated with the limited roles available. I had an agent before SWGSTBG but I rarely got sent on auditions and I didn't have time to perform once I moved to NY so I focused on making videos instead. After my video went viral I got an agent and since then I've been acting, writing and performing in web series and on tv for the past 3 years. I've also spoken at colleges, written articles and appeared on news programs on HLN, MSNBC, Yahoo and CNN. I've had a number of small parts on shows like Broad City and Totally Biased, I've filmed 4 cable tv pilots and written/consulted on a few shows. I developed a show at HBO which they passed on, but I've also spent the past 3 years pitching another television show I developed with my manager. i've worked very very hard, I just haven't publicly documented it because it's a lot of boring meetings and writing sessions. Plus, I'd rather wait til I have something to actually show you lol

[@AleyaMusic]

+chescaleigh Well many congratulations. I'm over here stomping my little path and trying to get my music off the ground, hopefully your success plan can work for me too: Just do it and do it well until the momentum comes. :)

[@chescaleigh]

+AleyaMusic that's awesome! it takes time, but if you love what you're doing the journey doesn't feel as long. it's weird to think i've been on KZbin for almost 10 years, but it's taken this long to get here. for musicians, doing covers of popular songs with your own unique spin can be a great way to draw attention to your original music. it's worth considering if you haven't already.

[@AleyaMusic]

Oh no I did, I covered a Bjork track and she shared it and blew up my platform. I'm picky but planning a whole roll-out plan of covers and stuff surrounding my new album and the activism involved in the themes :D It's an exciting time to be a creative!

[@KFCJones]

Lily Tomlin, Grandma. Boom.