While accepting the award for best female R&B/pop artist, Sullivan dedicated her acceptance speech to the women she makes music for and proposed a call to action to all the men in the room. "It's a hard time right now for us and I want to speak directly to the men — we need y'all," she said. "We need y'all to stand up, stand up for us, stand up with us. If you've ever benefitted from a woman making one of the toughest decisions of her life — which is to terminate a pregnancy — you need to be standing with us. This is not just a women's issue, this is everybody's issue."
The "Heaux Tales" singer concluded her speech, saying, "We need your support more than ever, OK fellas? Y'all got us? Because we got y'all."