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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 10313" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lizzo-SXSW-2022-top.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=437&amp;crop=1" alt="Lizzo SXSW 2022" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageFamous singer <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-ursula-thot-little-mermaid/" target="_blank">Lizzo</a> has to spend a lot of time <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-rumors-video-hateful-comments-should-not-fly/" target="_blank">advocating for herself</a>, and she does <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-explains-body-positivity-fat-people-oppression/" target="_blank">for others</a>, too. Most recently, she took the stage at the Austin Convention Center for SXSW to talk with radio host Angela Yee. The focus was mainly on her forthcoming Amazon Prime streaming series <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-watch-out-for-the-big-grrrls-trailer/" target="_blank">Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls</a>, but she, being an international star, had a lot to discuss, and she used her platform to bring up the pressing issues that have been going on in Texas, both where SXSW is and where she grew up.According to <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lizzo-sxsw-2022-keynote-speech-1320680/" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a>, Lizzo spoke on Texas governor Greg Abbott’s decision to treat gender-affirmative childcare as child abuse: “I’m proud to rep Houston but I’m not proud to rep Texan politics right now. There are very regressive laws being passed. They’re taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves. It’s a violation of human rights. Trans rights are human rights.” She also weighed in on the restrictive abortion law: “We got a lotta ugly babies y’all need to be handling instead of y’all being in people’s homes and telling them what to do with their bodies and being all up in their uteruses. The abortion ban is atrocious as well. Mind your business. Stay out of my body.”Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.<a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/lizzo-trans-rights-are-human-rights/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 10313, member: 81"] [IMG alt="Lizzo SXSW 2022"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lizzo-SXSW-2022-top.jpeg?w=1024&h=437&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] Famous singer [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-ursula-thot-little-mermaid/']Lizzo[/URL] has to spend a lot of time [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-rumors-video-hateful-comments-should-not-fly/']advocating for herself[/URL], and she does [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-explains-body-positivity-fat-people-oppression/']for others[/URL], too. Most recently, she took the stage at the Austin Convention Center for SXSW to talk with radio host Angela Yee. The focus was mainly on her forthcoming Amazon Prime streaming series [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/music/lizzo-watch-out-for-the-big-grrrls-trailer/']Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls[/URL][/I], but she, being an international star, had a lot to discuss, and she used her platform to bring up the pressing issues that have been going on in Texas, both where SXSW is and where she grew up. According to [I][URL='https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lizzo-sxsw-2022-keynote-speech-1320680/']Rolling Stone[/URL][/I], Lizzo spoke on Texas governor Greg Abbott’s decision to treat gender-affirmative childcare as child abuse: “I’m proud to rep Houston but I’m not proud to rep Texan politics right now. There are very regressive laws being passed. They’re taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves. It’s a violation of human rights. Trans rights are human rights.” She also weighed in on the restrictive abortion law: “We got a lotta ugly babies y’all need to be handling instead of y’all being in people’s homes and telling them what to do with their bodies and being all up in their uteruses. The abortion ban is atrocious as well. Mind your business. Stay out of my body.” [I]Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.[/I] [url="https://uproxx.com/pop/lizzo-trans-rights-are-human-rights/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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