EDITOR’S LETTER
This is our Freedom issue, and our cover star, the Brazilian pop star Anitta, is someone who has fought for it her entire life. After coming up in the favelas of Rio, Anitta—captured brilliantly by photographer Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve—is now an international sensation. But she speaks her mind and unapologetically brings the entirety of who she is to everything she does. She has gone on to create her own singular vision of success: one that gives her the choice to be exactly who she is. Women like Anitta are showing us that we no longer need to conform to old norms about how to look or dress in order to be taken seriously, that you can own your own sexuality and also be an ambitious businesswoman—that there is room for a…