Running head: FOLLOWING THEIR LEAD 1 Following their lead? Connecting mainstream media use to Black women’s gender beliefs and sexual agency L. Monique Ward and Morgan Jerald University of Michigan Lanice Avery University of Virginia Elizabeth R. Cole University of Michigan Author Note Morgan Jerald and L. Monique Ward, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan; Lanice Avery, Departments of Psychology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Virginia; Elizabeth R. Cole, Departments of Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan; Correspondence should be addressed to L. Monique Ward, University of Michigan, Psychology Department, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. E-mail: ward@umich.edu