"Michelle Obama and Beyoncé represent a feminist strain of thinking on women, work and family, students of feminism say, that could rightly be called Beyoncé-ism..."
Michelle Obama and Beyoncé Knowles are both powerful women married to powerful men.
They are friends. Their families have spent time together. They praise each other publicly and support each other's projects.
As their friendship has developed, they have — wittingly or not — become markers of 21{+s}t-century feminism.
"They are incredibly competent women who have not just flourishing careers but flourishing marriages and flourishing children. That's a very inspiring feminist message," says Anna Holmes, a New York-based writer and the founder of the women's website Jezebel.
"It's not contrived, but by default it feels very revolutionary."
Beyoncé is a feminist icon, yes, but it annoys me when people attribute her to be a leader of a new movement or something....that is touchy
Bey has simply liberated herself and aims to inspire other women to do the same
