Culture
A Painful Paradox: The Case for Reclaiming the Black Beauty Supply
Black employees at non-Black–owned beauty-supply stores report being restricted.
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The Lie That Feeds Our Ugly Fascination with Makeover Shows
How do you produce a show that purports to make women more beautiful—presenting them as undesirable as is—and still manage to preach self-love?
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Moderating Mental Health: The Dangers of Social Media’s Report Button
Developing protocols for content that discusses suicide requires a much more nuanced process than social-media platforms are equipped for.
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Popaganda: Class War, but Make It Fashion
Fashion is fueling the marginalization, abuse, and exploitation of some of the world’s most vulnerable women.
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Badass Broad with a PhD: In “Birds of Prey,” Harley Quinn Is Free of Joker and Sexist Branding
Birds of Prey sets the bar for nuanced depictions of female comic-book characters on the big screen.
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We’re Here, We’re Sheer: Cora Harrington’s Lingerie Revolution
The power of lingerie, and of intimates, is that you can express yourself underneath what you have to wear.
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Women of a Certain Rage: Two New Books Tackle Getting Older—and More Pissed Off
Like aging itself, Why We Can’t Sleep and In Our Prime are both reflective and daunting.
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Judged Judy: Judy Blume’s 40 Years Old Fight to Tell the Truth about Sex, Religion, and Turtles
For refusing to condescend to her readers in the face of physical harassment and threats of nonpublication, Blume has been, regardless of whether it was her intention, a protector of intellectual freedom and the First Amendment.
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When Richard Met Donyale: The Duo That Challenged High Fashion’s White Lens
When Donyale Luna and Richard Avedon began their collaboration, glamour was still a race-evasive code for whiteness.
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Retrofitted: The Community Preserving Vintage Style, Not Vintage Values
For many members of the vintage community, living in the actual past would mean living in a time of increased oppression.
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