Vogue Australia

Free speech

Grace Forrest is still wearing the friendship bracelets from the Taylor Swift concert she attended the week of her photo shoot with Vogue Australia.

In person, the activist, humanitarian and founder of antislavery organisation Walk Free – who was recently named the first female Australian recipient of the prestigious Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award – is focused and eloquent, while also prone to the occasional bout of goofily endearing sass. Of course, she has something profound to say about one of the most talked about women in the world.

“You would struggle to find 85,000 people to agree on anything nowadays.” Forrest begins, “and so being in a room with 85,000 people who are there to celebrate each other, celebrate joy,

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