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Yara Shahidi<\/strong><\/a> strikes a fun pose on the cover of Net-a-Porter\u2019s weekly digital magazine PorterEdit<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what the 18-year-old Black-ish<\/em> star had to share with the mag:<\/p>\n On how celebrities face backlash for being political:<\/strong> \u201cThere is so much fear of actors being political, like that\u2019s not our place, even though I feel that media has always been so inherently political. In the photos that you see of Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong>, even at the march on Washington, there\u2019s Sidney Poitier<\/strong><\/a> and Harry Belafonte<\/strong><\/a> and James Baldwin<\/strong>, and all of these other creatives. I think media is both progressive and extremely orthodox and conservative at the same time. Things will happen in the movies before they happen in real life. Sidney Poitier<\/strong> winning an Oscar as a black man was just surreal and at the same time it symbolized forward movement in society.\u201d<\/p>\n On her friends joking about her fake ID:<\/strong> \u201cMy friends have always said that if I got a fake ID, it would be to vote early.\u201d<\/p>\n On how the current political climate has had some surprisingly positive effects on her:<\/strong> \u201cI think, oddly, it\u2019s exciting because I don\u2019t think that I would look forward to voting as much if there hadn\u2019t been so much duress happening. It has made life less self-centric, it\u2019s more about community now. And, I mean, it timed out really well for me in terms of going through this stage where you are trying to find your friend group, trying to find who you are, and for so many people to have this common agreement to want to help one another with everything that\u2019s happening. It\u2019s not usually how you start a friendship group: \u2018You\u2019re socially aware? Cool, great. We are friends now.\u2019 So that\u2019s really special.\u201d<\/p>\n For more from Yara<\/strong>, visit Net-a-Porter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n