After Golden Globes, celebrities at BAFTA to don all black to lend support to the Time's Up campaign

The Time’s Up campaign which has created quite an uproar in the Hollywood industry is seen being widely accepted and promoted by influential celebrities in the West. Earlier this month, Golden Globes played a huge role in promoting gender parity and equality. Following that members of the Time’s Up campaign have now reached out to BAFTA guests urging them "to wear black to the awards ceremony, to follow suit from our sisters who attended the Golden Globes".

The full statement reads,

Dear BAFTA Guest,

We write to you on behalf of a collective of UK based female film and television industry leaders. We got together at the end of last year, in response to the sexual harassment scandals in our industry and beyond.

Inspired by the Time's Up movement in the US, we are working to continue the incredible movement this side of the Atlantic. With BAFTA being the first major film awards ceremony in Europe this year, we feel it is important to make a statement to show global solidarity and that the issue is not being forgotten, and to join hands with people across all industries who have experienced inequality and abuse.

This is why we are inviting you to wear black to the awards ceremony, to follow suit from our sisters who attended the Golden Globes. Wearing black is a strong, unifying and simple statement – a physical and visual representation of our solidarity with people across all industries who have experienced sexual harassment and abuse or have been held back due to an imbalance in power. It is also the easiest colour for the majority to wear and feel comfortable in. Here in the UK, more than half of all women and nearly two-thirds of women aged 18 to 24 have experienced sexual harassment at work. And we hope that those of us who are privileged enough to have a platform, can use it to raise awareness of the experiences of women beyond our industry, whose experiences are often silenced and marginalised.

At this point, we are keeping things under wraps as the UK-side movement shapes up and we’ll have some exciting plans to announce soon.

We wanted to personally reach out to you at this point to let you know of the colour code and we will be in touch again with more information, including talking points on why we’re wearing black.

For men, there are plans for special pins and/or a buttonhole if you would like one.

If you would be interested in bringing a women’s rights, equality, workplace rights activist with you to the awards, we would love to work with you to set that up – as it was a very successful part of the Golden Globes action.

In Solidarity.

Time’s Up, a high-powered initiative was introduced on January 1st, 2018 with the sole purpose of correcting the power imbalance and also to fight systemic sexual harassment in Hollywood and blue-collar workplaces all over the globe. Golden Globes saw almost all the leading celebrities don the colour black as their token of lending support towards the movement.

(Men showing soliditary towards the campaign during the Grammys 2018 by pinning the Time's Up white rose)

Following this, celebrities at the 60th annual Grammy Awards turned up pinning or carrying white roses in order to give out their support and create an impact. Miley Cyrus, Zayn Malik, Nick Jonas, The Chainsmokers, Lady Gaga were a few celebrities amongst many who proudly flaunted the white rose.