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Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
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(Entertainment)
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... goals back then were to get a set on Letterman and to get her own HBO Comedy Special—the latter of which came to fruition in October when her first solo comedy special, Sorry, Harriet Tubman, premiered ...
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Created on 08 February 2022
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How could a woman not know she was autistic until age 31? The answer has everything to do with gender bias.
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(Living)
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... gym was the only class where I got a B, even though I tried my best. I had little in the way of physical coordination and didn’t mesh well on teams. I much preferred swimming laps solo in my apartment ...
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Created on 25 January 2021
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5 Travel Vloggers Of Color You Should Be Following Right Now
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(Living)
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... and by us. Here are five of our fave female travel vloggers of color sure to give you wanderlust.
GrrrlTraveler With a focus on solo female travel and food, Christine Kaaloa aims to inspire women of ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
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Solo Play is a Gateway to Body Positivity
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(Sponsored)
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... the current state of our bodies. Solo play, literally, puts the power in your hands to figure out what you like, don't like, want more of, and how; providing you with the agency to have the sex you want ...
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Created on 04 September 2019
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Capable Is Our First Name: One Woman's Story Of Traveling Alon
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(Feminism)
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... These risks transcend a binary-centric perspective and are layered with intersectionalities. Solo travel may be experienced differently for LGBTQ+ folks, femmes of colour, and femmes with disabilities. ...
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Created on 09 August 2019
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Safe Spaces On The Open Road: Why More Women Are Embracing #VanLife
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(Living)
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All over North America, women are turning vans into tiny rolling homes and living life on the open road. Documenting their adventures with the hashtag #vanlife, these solo female travelers are claiming ...
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Created on 07 August 2019
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5 Tips For Planning The Ultimate Girls’ Trip
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(Living)
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... allergy. In the mornings, we dined solo, either in our rooms or at the resort’s generous breakfast buffet. This worked out great, both culinarily and in terms of our varied wake-up times. But when it came ...
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Created on 17 June 2019
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8.
The Oscars Almost Got It All Right, Except...
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(Entertainment)
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... animated short for “Bao,”—the first short film directed by a woman from the film works. Also, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Shannon Dill shared best documentary feature for “Free Solo” with Jimmy Chin ...
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Created on 25 February 2019
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4 WWII Heroines You Probably Haven't Heard O
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(Feminism)
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... everyone’s surprise, she fucking nailed it! She ran an entire radio network solo, intercepting messages and passing along vital intel, all while constantly on the run from the Nazis. When the British offered ...
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Created on 24 September 2018
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Hayley Williams Of Paramore, Before "After Laughter": From The BUST Archive
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(Music)
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... my heart is, and that’s Paramore. Plenty of labels wanted me to be a solo singer—plenty of ’em. There were other roads I could’ve taken, but why would I want to do that? I love being in a band. I love ...
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Created on 25 July 2018
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19 New Albums To Listen To This Spring: Playlist
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(Music)
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... dog. 5/5 –Shannon Carlin
SPEEDY ORTIZ Twerp Verse (Carpark Records)
After striking out on her own with the solo project Sad13, Sadie Dupuis is back with her band Speedy Ortiz on Twerp ...
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Created on 05 April 2018
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Neon Gold Founder Lizzy Plapinger Goes Solo As LPX: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... and "Bones," which was by used by TV shows Game of Thrones, Grey's Anatomy and Pretty Little Liars. When MS MR went on hiatus last year, LPX branched out with her solo single "Tightrope," and she was finishing ...
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Created on 18 January 2018
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5 Bad Bitches You've Never Heard O
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(Living)
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... do.
All together now: YES SOPHIE!!!
Ditching a husband and running a business solo were unheard of female pursuits in this age. Still, Sophie wasn’t done…she wanted more. She wanted to grow her business. ...
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Created on 16 January 2018
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14.
The Secret Sex Lives Of Witches
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(Sex)
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... states. It did feel like a real reclaiming to be rubbing that ointment on my pussy.” While the history of solo sex magic brings us back to the Medieval witch and her disco stick, partnered sex magic is ...
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Created on 30 October 2017
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Ride Like A Girl: 5 Women Motorcyclists Redefining Adventure
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(Living)
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... prefer the solitude of solo adventures, while others enjoy team-based activities like the Gazelle Race. It wasn't so long ago that women would ask permission to do something. Now, we own our power and simply ...
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Created on 11 October 2017
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15 New Albums By Women You Should Be Listening To This October: Playlist
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(Music)
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... of queer/feminist anthems in bouncy electronic packages. Her songs deliver an appealing brand of ’80s synth-pop by way of 2017 (à la solo Kristin Kontrol of the Dum Dum Girls) often delivered with direct ...
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Created on 29 September 2017
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The Okay Corral: Walking Away From Work at the End of the Day
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(Living)
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Inside my brain is a field, and in my left part of that field, there’s a corral. The corral is where my workday thought ponies run, in circles. They never stop running.
Most days, at the end of ...
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Created on 26 September 2017
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18.
The Best Piece Of Advice I Was Ever Given
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(Feminism)
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... of wine was really, really good.
Top photo: Flickr Creative Commons/Mohamed Aymen Bettaieb
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Created on 21 September 2017
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19.
5 Things All Solo Female Travelers Should Know
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(Books)
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... with another female traveler, Masha, and the lessons they learn on the road.
Here are a couple of the most important lessons:
1.) “You’ll work it out.”
Solo traveling teaches resilience ...
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Created on 13 September 2017
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20.
Leonora Carrington Is The Groundbreaking Surrealist Artist You've Never Heard O
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(Arts)
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... There were 27 paintings in her first solo show in New York in 1948, the same year her second child was born. Not that it had been easy. Carrington told an interviewer in 1991: “We need a wife, like men ...
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Created on 23 January 2017