YARA ON ROWAN I met Rowan at Teen Vogue&rsquo;s Young Hollywood party in 2014. My first impression of her was &ldquo;ethereal.&rdquo; It wasn&rsquo;t just her look or mannerisms but more how she carries herself. Her authenticity bubbles up from within her. Whether you see her speaking to crowds of young future leaders or on television as Riley in Girl Meets World, Rowan emits beams of light and happiness onto other people. And it&rsquo;s not something she can stop, nor does she try to. Her work, her heartfelt humanitarianism, her art, and her friendships all blossom from a belief that everybody should be allowed to be and live in their truest form, without pressure or recrimination. She is the friend I talk to when I need to process the fragile state of our world, or when I am craving new music or a film to fill my spirit.ROWAN ON YARA When I first met Yara, I was taken by her ability to balance academic intelligence and a fondness for James Baldwin quotes with being the friend you text in gibberish at 1 in the morning about the Beyonc&eacute; concert you just saw (me: Disnt.Snatwganfxank! Yara: Agrktvfuen rifbrvudhf!). Yara&rsquo;s seeming contradictions are what make her so singular, especially in a world where the message women and people of color tend to hear is that they can be one thing rather than possess the multitude of identities we all encapsulate. Particularly in Hollywood, which can feel like a hierarchy where girls are encouraged to see each other as competition rather than people worth getting to know, Yara has taught me that sisterhood is thicker than any of these notions. Having a friend like Yara [who plays Zoey on Black-ish] is essential to me as a girl, as an actress, and as a teenager. She has helped me so much, often with out even knowing it. I keep a journal where I write down important things that I hear, and flipping through it now I realize most of the quotes are Yara&rsquo;s. She is a wondrous witness to the world, capable of seeing the best of it as well as highlighting the parts we can make better. Yara is proof that teenagers have so much more power than we are capable of digesting and that our voices actually do change things. I am thinking less about our impact on the world at large than I am about the ways we can impact each other and make one another feel less alone.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479715564698.jpg"" owidth=1485 oheight=2008" style="height:541px; width:400px" />Y+R ON REPRESENTATION RB: I was walking around New York City the other day, and this 11-year-old girl came up to me and said, &ldquo;Thank you for speaking about feminism.&rdquo; And I thought, It&rsquo;s so awesome hearing that word from someone that age. It wasn&rsquo;t, like, a censored, hush-hush term.YS: I met a girl who told me, &ldquo;I took this extra science class because of you,&rdquo; and that was one of the best compliments I had ever gotten in my entire existence. It&rsquo;s up there with the girls who say, &ldquo;I see myself represented in you.&rdquo; Stepping into the world of TV and movies as a child actress, I saw the lack of people who looked like me. But it&rsquo;s so much more than &ldquo;I want to see somebody with my skin tone.&rdquo; There could be 10 people who look like me on a show, but they all got killed in the first scene. Or they&rsquo;re all in jail. Or they&rsquo;re all the best friend. I want to see somebody who looks like me as the doctor and the criminal and the successful businessperson and the woman barely making a living. I want to see the spectrum.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479715586389.jpg"" owidth=1382 oheight=1861" style="height:539px; width:400px" />RB: I remember when The Princess and the Frog came out, and there was a special about how Tiana was the first African- American Disney princess, and I was like, &ldquo;What?! The first African-American princess?&rdquo; I have, like, 12 princesses to choose from who look like me. I remember it being a shift. As a white person, I never had to think about representation because I always saw myself as a Disney princess. The thing about privilege is, oftentimes you don&rsquo;t even have to think about the inequality when you don&rsquo;t have to face it.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479715611410.jpg"" owidth=1198 oheight=1849" style="height:617px; width:400px" />YS: Growing up, in many ways I was the representation for myself. Some of my childhood modeling jobs were with Mattel and Disney, so I&rsquo;d go into the Disney store and literally see me. My family was cleaning up the garage, and I found these life-size cutouts of 6-year-old me as the black Tinkerbell, black Cinderella, you name it, which is hilarious. But being the black version of so many characters brought up problems. I was happy to be black, but at the same time there were moments of, &ldquo;Why is this a separate collection?&rdquo; There was this realization that being black meant I was the &ldquo;off-brand&rdquo; version because Cinderella wasn&rsquo;t made to look like me.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479715626563.jpg"" owidth=1485 oheight=1849" style="height:498px; width:400px" />RB: There is a quote, &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t be what you can&rsquo;t see.&rdquo; For the longest time, my friends would ask me, &ldquo;Do you ever want to direct?&rdquo; I was like, &ldquo;Direct? No!&rdquo; I&rsquo;m realizing now that I was living in this very narrow world of thinking of movies as being directed only by guys. Nobody had ever taught me about Jodie Foster, Gia Coppola, or Sofia Coppola. When Ava DuVernay became the first African American woman to direct a $100 million motion picture, with A Wrinkle in Time, her response was basically, &ldquo;But I was not the first capable of doing so.&rdquo; Maybe if I had known about all of these female directors, my answer would have been different. Because now, I am like, &ldquo;Heck, yeah, I wanna direct!&rdquo; Put me in power and let me run the show, because I think I&rsquo;m capable of that.Y+R ON ACTIVISM RB: My need to be an activist came very much from a need to understand history. And how things that happened before have&nbsp;influenced what&rsquo;s happening now. We covered Rosa Parks for, like, three days in history. But there is so much more than what is in the history books. To me, activism is a need to know, a need to explain, and a need to help. At first I was very scared of the term. I thought, Am I actually doing enough? Then I realized that oftentimes existing is activism in itself. For instance, I think it&rsquo;s brave for girls to go to college when there is a one-in-four chance that they will be raped. That in itself is activism. I wish all girls and people of color called themselves activists.YS: For me, just by being on a show called Black-ish, race became an unavoidable conversation. It gave me this platform to address these topics, and that opened the doors to develop my voice in an intentional way. On a personal level, even though I was always hyperaware of our history, I didn&rsquo;t put race in a real physical context until I hit my teens. Being mixed&mdash;I&rsquo;m half Iranian and half black&mdash;even has its strange amalgamation of problems. The first instance that really rubbed me the wrong way was when somebody called me whitewashed. I couldn&rsquo;t process what that meant. In theory, I&rsquo;d heard all the stereotypes. But it was my first time seeing, Oh, wow, people still believe in a black stereotype. What was conflicting was that I was surrounded by successful women and people of color who were&mdash;by society&rsquo;s view&mdash;the anomaly. All around me, there were examples of excellence and excelling. But because I carried myself a certain way, I wasn&rsquo;t a &ldquo;believable&rdquo; black person&nbsp;to them. That was the strangest moment.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479715967957.jpg"" owidth=1485 oheight=703" style="height:379px; width:800px" />RB: Like [activist] DeRay McKesson says, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re not born woke&rdquo;; it&rsquo;s such a learning process. I started thinking about the feminism I was initially being sold, which was basically that boys and girls should be equal. But there are intersections, and a lot of reasons why it is easier for me to achieve that equality&nbsp;than it is for some of my friends. You have to always question your politics: Am I being as inclusive as I possibly can? Is this thing that I said, could it be xenophobic? My worst fear is someone writing, &ldquo;Rowan Blanchard, queen of feminism!&rdquo; I&rsquo;m like no. I am figuring this out just as much as you are. I am constantly trying to check my privilege. I sometimes get worried that my feminism is, like, too American. We can get lost in Taylor Swift fighting Kanye West instead of being like, there are so many Syrian refugees!<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/12189/194978/5832ae3c2750b/1479716394169.jpg"" owidth=1485 oheight=2008" style="height:541px; width:400px" />Y+R ON THE FUTURE RB: I hope that by the time this issue comes out, Hillary Clinton is elected president and girls feel more empowered. My generation and I will become legal during this presidency.&nbsp;YS: Watch out 2035&mdash;I&rsquo;ll officially be qualified!

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