Amber Rose Dresses as Feminist Icons, Talks Slut-Shaming for PAPER Magazine [Photos]

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Amber Rose as Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

Amber Rose took on feminist icons in a dazzling new photo shoot for PAPER magazine.
In the mag, she talks about the moment she decided to identify as a feminist.

“I would look on [Wiz’s] Instagram and he would have pictures of all these women all over him… and then I would post a picture of me and my son. And people would be like, ‘Does your son know that his mother’s a whore?’” she says. “People are like, ‘Wiz is out fucking mad bad bitches and you’re at home crying over him because he’s the best thing that fucking ever happened to you and now you’re just a fat, bald-headed single mother and no one will ever love you.’ So yeah, I guess months of seeing shit like that, I was just like, ‘I can’t live like this. There’s something wrong.’”

Amber also shared her first experience with slut-shaming at an early age.

…the first time she was called a “slut” was in the eighth grade at a party where she was playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with a group of classmates, one of whom took her in the closet and told her to get down on her knees.

“That young, I didn’t know what [that] meant,” Rose pauses a second. “It just didn’t register. But he’s like, ‘No, no, I’m telling you, get down on your knees. I’ll show you something.’…And then he just opens the door, right?…And I look over at him and he has his penis in my face, I’m on my knees — and still, girl, I swear to God, I swear on my son’s life, it still didn’t register to me why they were all gasping.”

Rose says she was still a virgin and “had never even thought of giving head at that time,” she says of her introduction to slut-shaming and the lack of control women have over their own sexuality in our society. “I was so young. I fell into a depression. Everyone hated me. I was the school slut.” It’s a narrative she says has haunted her since, though she claims to no longer “give a fuck” about the naysayers. As she spends more time addressing these issues, as a biracial woman she’s also realized that the movement itself is still far from perfect, especially after she saw “a lot of older women speaking [negatively] about [my Slut Walk]” — as illustrated by an outpouring of Facebook comments and tweets, some even from people near her age, saying things like, “This #amberroseslutwalk is a shame. Instead of it being about defending rape victims… it’s turned into these crazies wanting to be topless.”

Check out some of the gorgeous photos below.

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