“This is what I want to look like. I love a heel, I love a nail, I love a jaw, I love a bald head, I love a good outfit. It is legitimately a way of just expressing parts of myself,” Cynthia Erivo tells Harper’s Bazaar in her November cover story, speaking of her powerful, romantic, androgynous look we’ve come to know and love. The actor, who came out publicly as queer in 2022, feels more fully herself now than ever, and if there is one thing she wants to do with her voice—other than delight us with music, of course—is use it to help other queer individuals who may need it.
This fall, the Wicked star will publish her book Simply More—the title of which was inspired by speech she gave upon receiving a GLAAD Media Award earlier this year. Then, she dedicated her speech to those who may still be keeping their identity to themselves. “In their quiet solitude, that’s still a measure of rebellion and still deserves a little light,” she tells Bazaar. “What I wrote about was [that] those of us who are in the light, who are walking around with our lanterns shining bright, should just change the direction of the lanterns and shine it back on people who don’t know where their path is yet.”
She feels especially protective over people who use they/them pronouns. “Teaching people on a daily basis how to address you, and dealing with the frustration of reteaching people a word that has been in the human vocabulary since the dawn of time: they/them,” Erivo said in her GLAAD speech. “Words used to describe pedantically two or more people; poetically, a person who is simply more.”
Less a memoir and more a collection of teachable moments from Erivo’s life, Simply More will be released on November 18, 2025.
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