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CARRIE FISHER IS MORE THAN PRINCESSLEIA
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by : CARRIE COUROGEN | 4 MONTHS AGO | 17953 VIEWS
Carrie Fisher arrives at the Governors Awards atthe Dolby Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, inLos Angeles. (Photo by JordanStrauss/Invision/AP)
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Actress and author Carrie Fisher reportedly su�ered a “massive heart
attack” on a �ight from London to Los Angeles Friday afternoon. She was
rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, where her brother, Todd Fisher, told
Variety she is currently out of emergency and in ICU, in stable condition,
though “there’s no good news or bad news.”
News of the episode sparked an outpouring of support on social media
and in the press. A common thread in all the discussion? Star Wars.
Identi�cation of public �gures is an important part of reporting. It makes
sense to note that Fisher is most well-known for her role as Princess Leia
— it gives the general public an iconic, familiar role to put a face to the
name. It makes sense to lead with that, but not to make it the entire focus.
In the nearly 40 years since Fisher became an overnight icon as an
outspoken princess with a memorable hairstyle, her resume has
expanded to cover multiple �elds. She has written four novels, three
memoirs, two plays, and two screenplays, including the screenplay for the
Academy Award-nominated adaptation of her �rst novel, Postcards from
the Edge. She has acted in several other �lms, from Hannah and Her
Sisters to When Harry Met Sally.
In the 1990s, she was considered one of Hollywood’s best script doctors
(a writer brought in to rewrite or polish an already existing script), having
worked on �lms like Hook, Sister Act, and The Wedding Singer. Her
autobiographical one woman show Wishful Drinking was adapted into
both a memoir and an HBO special.
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Having su�ered bipolar disorder and addictions to cocaine and
prescription medicines, her activism around mental health and addiction
has been recognized by multiple organizations, most recently Harvard
University.
I shouldn’t have to list the contents of Carrie Fisher’s resume here. I
shouldn’t have to remind people that she has done more in 40 years than
don a pair of cinnamon roll hair buns and a white dress.
If we were talking about her co-star Harrison Ford in this situation, I’m
fairly certain media outlets would not be focusing on his role as Han Solo.
The overwhelming amount of tweets would have more than photos of
Indiana Jones. Fisher doesn’t deserve to be reduced to a single role. She
doesn’t deserve press coverage including a still of her as “slave Leia” — a
degrading out�t she has vocally spoken out against — in their articles.
Women are reduced to singular roles, relationships, and images again and
again and again. Women are constantly identi�ed as someone’s wife or
girlfriend, a single line summarizing their entire career, a former sex
symbol. It isn’t lost on me that this time last year, Fisher was making news
after a New York Post writer wrote a misogynistic opinion piece that if she
was unhappy about people commenting on how she’s aged, she “should
quit acting.”
Fisher is just one recent example. This is not unique; it is not special. It just
shines yet another light on a problem. Women are more than one singular
identity. It’s about time we started acknowledging it.
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Carrie Courogen
Carrie is a writer and social media manager for Condé Nast Entertainment in
New York. Her writing has been featured in print and online for publications like
Quartz, Teen Vogue, The Hu�ngton Post, Bustle, and the New York Daily News,
among others. Additionally, she maintains a Tumblr where she muses on things
like millennial issues, music, and, most of all, lady heroes.
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