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Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
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(Music)
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... uncomfortable, right? Because they both did something that’s very uncomfortable. (laughs)
B: Absolutely.
J: In a really black and white world, I saw the unity [between Young and Rogan]. It’s just ...
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Created on 02 May 2022
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Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
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(Entertainment)
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... fat body promotes obesity. This sort of toxic, black and white thinking is also ripe within the body-positive movement, where there is an assumption that if you exist in a bigger body you’re promoting ...
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Created on 14 March 2022
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Watching "Tall Girl 2" While Black: Just How Much Of A Struggle Is Being Tall, Anyway
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(Movies)
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... white, blonde, conventionally pretty, and has two loyal friends. But even then, Jodi’s life is seemingly miserable because of her height—she is envious of every girl who isn’t tall, even her sister, and ...
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Created on 02 March 2022
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Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
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(Entertainment)
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... difficulties the three women faced as black women in such a white, male-dominated field. They hit many roadblocks, and, as the title insinuates, were largely ignored in history. Even at such a high level ...
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Created on 16 February 2022
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Bitch, The Legendary Queer Music Icon Is Back With New Album “Bitchcraft” After a 9 Year Hiatus
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(Music)
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... put me in classical music, which I am very lucky that I have that training. I did that all the way through high school, but then, it's also very restrictive and you are playing the music of dead white men, ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... to Filipino Americans in search of their roots, which is an important endeavor considering the wide-scale and systemic whitewashing of Phillipine culture that is frequently found in American literature. ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
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(TV)
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... level right now. I was recently re-watching The O.C., a teen drama series from the early 2000s that showcases wealthy, white teens living in Orange County, California, and I realized how differently teens ...
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Created on 19 January 2022
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Bridget Everett’s Brilliant HBO series “Somebody Somewhere,” About a Midwestern Gal in Midlife Crisis, is Definitely Going to Be Your New Favorite Show
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(TV)
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Stand up comedian Bridget Everett might not be the first person you’d think to cast as the lead in a low-key, emotionally charged dramedy, but it’s clear the writers (Hannah Bos of HBO’s High Maintenance ...
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Created on 14 January 2022
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The Sustainable Fashion Trends You Should Be Adding To Your Shopping Cart This Year
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(Style)
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... sets and basic tees, to retreating to that one blazer for your daily Zoom meeting, it is no secret that the pandemic has transformed our wardrobes to become full of a gray, white, black, and beige camouflaged ...
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Created on 12 January 2022
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The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
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(Books)
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... the lost history of female television writers such as The Golden Girls’ Betty White and Soap Opera writer, Irna Phillips. Her research and book focus on four ambitious women who shaped television to this ...
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Created on 21 December 2021
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Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
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(Feminism)
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... their wedding day, the 10th-grader wore a white AMI Clubwear tube dress, garter exposed, and clear plastic platform heels, their hair in teased golden spirals. Stodden’s father, four years Hutchison’s ...
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Created on 12 November 2021
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An Increasing Number of Women in the UK Have Reported Being Pricked or "Spiked" With Drug-Filled Syringe Needles While Out in Public. Activists Are Calling For Safer Nightclub Condition
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(Feminism)
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"Needle Spiking” : A New Sexual Assault tactic Worries Many Women in The UK, A Call For Action Has Been Made.
As if the past few months in the UK weren’t already filled with numerous stories about ...
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Created on 02 November 2021
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For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
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(General)
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... The Book of Hallowe’en: “A very elaborate charm is tried in Newfoundland. As the clock strikes midnight, a girl puts the 26 letters of the alphabet, cut from paper, into a pure-white bowl which has been ...
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Created on 21 October 2021
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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Social media icon Bretman Rock makes his debut as the first openly gay male featured on the cover of Playboy Magazine. The 23-year-old Filipino influencer has been producing beauty content online over ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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6 Women-Directed Horror Thrillers to Fulfill All of Your Spooky Season Cravings
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(Movies)
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... who handed out candy to local White children; however, these candies had razor blades inside of them. Police shot and killed Fields in cold blood, only for him to be exonerated weeks later. Another “Candyman” ...
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Created on 01 October 2021
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Doctors Marian Croak and Patricia Bath Are the First Black Women Inducted into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame, And Yeah, It's About Time
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(Feminism)
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... is starting to look a little less white, and a little less male. The non-profit announced this week that Marian Croak, Ph.D., vice president of engineering at Google, and the late ophthalmologist Patricia ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Michaela Coel’s first book, “Misfits: A Personal Manifesto,” is an emotional dive into her experiences of racism and sexism as a Black British woman.
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(Books)
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... to question myself.” By interrogating her own place within society, drawing from her past experiences both as a young Black girl in a predominantly white neighborhood, and as an award-winning actress ...
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Created on 15 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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... Black places,” she recalls. “We weren’t allowed to go to any white places, they wouldn’t serve him. They wouldn’t serve me, either. It was really bad. We’d have to hide.” This was at a time when studios ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
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(Feminism)
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... she was forced to sing and dance before crowds of white onlookers.
Often naked in these exhibitions, Baartman was sometimes suspended in a cage on stage while being poked, prodded and groped. Her body ...
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Created on 20 August 2021
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We've Got a Long Way to Go: The Gossip Girl Reboot Promised Diversity, but Served Up More of the Same Old, Same Old Instea
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(TV)
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... especially when you consider the all white main cast of its 2007 predecessor. Backlash for this choice in casting was definitely heard and there has been an obvious and mostly successful effort at fixing ...
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Created on 17 August 2021