Why I Love Being Single
It happens at almost every family gathering. Sometimes it's a question or an offhand comment. But the sentiment is always the same: When are you going to get yourself a man?I've had cousins tell me I'm...
View ArticleWhy These Migrants Are Going On Strike In The UK
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.The upsurge in anti-immigrant hate crime and xenophobic rhetoric since the EU referendum has been well reported, and one group of campaigners has up with an...
View ArticleWill The NHS Force Women To Show Passports Before Giving Birth?
Photo: Unsplash.Pregnant women could soon be forced to show their passports before they're allowed to give birth in an NHS hospital.St George's Hospital in London is considering asking patients to show...
View ArticleCoverGirl Just Announced Its First Male Face — & He Couldn't Be More Deserving
Junior year of high school was a busy one for aspiring makeup artist James Charles. He launched his Instagram account, raked in over 400K subscribers, and took his senior portrait not once, but twice...
View Article12 Photos Show What It's Really Like To Grow Up Trans
Photographer Annie Tritt started Transcending Self, her ongoing project about transgender youth, with one goal in mind: to create something real and honest. In an interview with Refinery29, she...
View ArticleMore People Were Calling RAINN's Sexual Assault Hotline After Trump's Video...
Donald Trump's degrading comments about sexually assaulting women were not just offensive to liberals and conservatives alike, but they were also extremely triggering to sexual assault survivors. At...
View ArticleYour Promotion Is Making Me Jealous
Even as I typed his name into Google, I knew I was making a terrible mistake.The subject of my search was a particular ex-boyfriend. He’d dumped me shortly after our college graduation, and though it...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of The Striped Shirt Trend (& One Of The Key Brands Behind It)
Odds are you have (at least) one striped shirt hanging in your closet. It’s an oft-talked-about staple; a requisite piece for trying to nail the whole French-girl aesthetic. There are even entire...
View ArticleAlaska Airlines Kicks Off Passenger For Catcalling Flight Attendant
Catcalling has become such an unfortunate part of women's everyday lives that the rare moments when it's rightfully stopped are just so delicious. It doesn't get much better than what happened on this...
View ArticleTwo Maps Illustrate The Deep Gender Divide Defining This Election
Rarely do you see a pair of images that perfectly illustrate the difference in the politics of men and women.This election is divided along a lot of lines and has featured some of the most shocking...
View ArticleThis Palette Will Fix Your Party Makeup Problems
We've all been there. You have an event or party to go to straight after work and you're looking at your reflection in your computer screen at 5.58pm and let's just say, your face has seen better days....
View ArticleHow A Skate School Is Changing Girls' Lives In South Africa
Photographed by Tim Moolman.Johannesburg may be nicknamed “The City of Gold”, but for many of its estimated 4.4 million inhabitants, inequality stifles their lives. Amidst the towering skyscrapers of...
View ArticleHow To Decorate Your Home Like A Parisienne
We've coveted their wardrobes, their beauty cabinets, and their diets. Hell, we've even tried to parent like them. What is it about the Parisian lifestyle that makes so many of us Brits feel so...
View ArticleBrit Bennett Talks The Mothers & The Women Who Shape Our Lives
In Brit Bennett's debut novel, The Mothers, a young woman grieving the death of her mother falls into a relationship with the church pastor's son, has an abortion, and then has to live with the...
View ArticleShould Children Study Porn In School?
Artwork by Zoe Ligon. As a young person navigating their way around the internet, it's virtually impossible to avoid porn. Sexually explicit pop-ups are ubiquitous, music videos abound with gyrating...
View ArticleWill Same-Sex Marriage Finally Be Legalised In Australia?
Photo: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images.Same-sex marriage has come under the spotlight in Australia this year. It was a key talking point during the country's federal election in June, and...
View ArticleYet Another Fashion House Loses Its Creative Director
So far, the designer turnover has seemed to follow a rule of threes: Both Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane exited their roles at Dior and Saint Laurent, respectively, after three years at the helm. On...
View ArticleLast-Minute Halloween Ideas For Lazy Girls
Photographed by Erin Yamagata.We're not exactly sure how summer flew by so quickly. But, all of a sudden it's about to be Halloween, and we're left scratching our heads. While some have been planning...
View ArticleThe Eat Pray Love Pizza Place Is Coming To London
Photographed by Ashley Batz. Naples is the pizza capital of Italy. Its people have long claimed the street food as their own and even today, the city is well-known for its delicious, authentic...
View ArticleLena Dunham Reveals The Girls Sex Scene That Sent Her To A Doctor
Lena Dunham is willing to do anything for her art. Her commitment to one Girls sex scene, however, was downright dangerous."In the last week of filming I ended up having to go to physical therapy...
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