“I heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permission,” says poet Denice Frohman in the first line of Twitter’s new #HereWeAre campaign, which made its TV debut tonight during ABC’s Oscars telecast. The brilliant video was the best thing on the Oscars. I hope no one minds me linking to it and posting the words.

. . . until, Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.) and Andra Day, backed by a row of activists, sang “Stand Up for Something.” The activists included Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council); Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee); Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative); Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund); Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm Workers of America); Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup); Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise); Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter); and Tarana Burke (Me Too).

Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph Ask Are the Oscars Too Black Now?

And then . . . she put her Oscar on the floor, patted its head, and she was ready to rock-n-roll.

Frances McDormand explains Inclusion Rider at Oscars

That las . . . I have watched credits for more than 30 years, looking for women on crew.