Broadly Meets

Ten years ago, Michaela Coel was a celibate, ultra-religious Pentecostal Christian who wept when her friends got tattoos and begged them to believe in Jesus. Now she's one of the biggest rising stars in television, creating and starring in Chewing Gum, the BAFTA award-winning Netflix and E4 comedy described by the New York Times as one of the best TV shows of 2016.

Broadly's Ariel Wengroff sat down with social advocate and activist, Malala Yousafzai at the UN headquarters in New York to speak about her work advocating for women's and children's rights and education, and to discuss her new project, Girl Power Trip, which kicked off its global tour in early April of 2017.

Transgender Mormon activist, Emmett Claren, has been publicly documenting his transition on YouTube. We met with Emmett right before his long-awaited surgery to remove his breasts, a surgery that risks expulsion from the Mormon Church. Emmett hopes that by being open about his own transition, he can raise awareness and acceptance for other trans people within the large Mormon community in Utah, but he faces substantial obstacles in negotiating his gender identity and his faith within a church that has historically anti-LGBTQ policies.