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Women Who Played Coachella Tell All, From Weed Blackouts To Lindsay Lohan ...
Courtney E. Smith
Apr 14, 2018
US News
White Nationalists Increasingly Target Colleges With Recruitment Propaganda
Natalie Gontcharova
Apr 6, 2018
Features
A Scholarship Was Supposed To Change Her Life—Here's Why It Got Derailed
Torey Van Oot
Apr 2, 2018
International Women's Day
Michelle Obama Talks To R29 About The Power Of Girls' Education
For International Women's Day, Michelle Obama and the Obama Foundation teamed up with Refinery29 to shine a light on the importance and urgency of empoweri
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R29 Team
Parenthood
You Can Control Your Baby's Sex — If You Believe In Babydust
It was 2011 and Kathryn Taylor was ready to get pregnant — with a boy. “I wanted a boy first mainly for my husband. I thought it would make him relate
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Rebecca Gale
Designers
Can Marchesa Survive In A Post-Weinstein World?
Since the Marchesa brand first debuted in 2004, it has often been described by notable fashion critics in the exact same way: as a fairytale, for princesse
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Connie Wang
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Fashion
Why Isn’t Mary Seats As Famous As Sophia Amoruso?
Four people in a studio huddle around a computer, scrutinizing a simple line drawing of a pair of breasts in silence. Finally, someone speaks: “They look
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Connie Wang
News
Why Do Female Physicians Keep Dying By Suicide At Mount Sinai St....
In the span of two years, three women — two physicians and one medical student — died by suicide while at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital.
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Ashley Alese Edwards
Work & Money
Stacy London On Her Year Of Going Broke
For me, 2017 was a financial, physical, emotional shit show. By the time the year was up, I wasn’t just almost broke, I was broken. Because when shit hap
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Stacy London
Wellness
The Football-Playing Homecoming Queen Breaking The News Cycle
Julia Knapp is reshaping the way we think about football.
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Torey Van Oot
Features
ESPN’s Sage Steele Doesn’t Care What You Think; She Knows She’s R...
ESPN's Sage Steele is used to going at hyperspeed and saying what she thinks. She has made a career talking over the guys, and not just on her show.
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Britni de la Cretaz
Features
The Perils Of Using Fashion For Protest
I’m not sure where my pink pussy hat is — whether it’s in a closet, flattened in a bag, or long-ago disintegrated in a landfill somewhere. However, I
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Connie Wang
News
The Women’s March Wants To Change The World: Will We Let It?
Can the Women's March transform symbolic solidarity into something that sticks?
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Amelia Harnish
Entertainment
Hollywood Wants Gun Control — For Everyone But Them
Matt Damon wants gun control. In fact, he'd like to see the weapons all but eliminated. In July 2016, Damon was on a press junket when he told reporte
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Kelsey Miller
Features
The Hunt For Female Agency In The #MeToo Era
What stopped me from sharing a #MeToo story was a visceral aversion to seeing myself as a victim or letting anyone else put my identity into that box. I co
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Judy Berman
Horoscopes
In Turbulent Times, We Look To The Sky: How Astrology Is Soothing...
“I’m not saying you’re a serial killer, but if it weren’t for the fact that your sun exactly trines your moon, maybe you would be,” Angel Eyedeal
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Amelia Harnish
Politics
I Took A Ladies Handgun Fundamentals Course — Here's Why
Women are still less likely to own guns than men. But new products, organizations, and training are aiming to change that.
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Jacki Huntington
Features
Gender. Power. Complicity. Complexity.
How much blame do women deserve for #MeToo?
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Elizabeth Kiefer
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Features
The Female Revolution Is Here & Boy Does It Hurt
We should call this loose, messy movement what it is: a revolution.
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Judy Berman
Victoria's Secret
The Biggest Drama During Tonight’s Victoria’s Secret Show Won’t B...
Tonight, CBS will air the 2017 Victoria’s Secret show, which was filmed one week ago in the Mercedes-Benz arena in Shanghai — the first time the show w
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Connie Wang
News
The Evolution Of The Public Apology, From Harvey Weinstein To Rig...
You have to admit they’re getting better. And by “they” I mean the apologies currently on tour through the headlines and social media sphere, a choru
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Elizabeth Kiefer
Fashion
How Did An Entire Group Of People Become A Fashion Trend?
One thing I never expected to worry about is how daunting it can be to dress for a photoshoot. Even though I wasn’t the one being photographed, the press
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Thora Siemsen
Features
The True Beauty Of Gigi Gorgeous
The May morning of the MTV Movie Awards, Gigi Gorgeous sat in the dining room of her girlfriend’s Toluca Lake mansion, sipping Red Bull from a paper cup.
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Elizabeth Kiefer
Entertainment
What It's REALLY Like Being Best Friends With Justin Bieber & Wor...
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Arianna Davis
Politics
“A Frightening Precedent": Inside The GOP-Backed Bid To Oust 3 Fe...
The campaign could impact balance of power in state politics — & the number of women in office.
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Torey Van Oot
Uncover
Gabourey Sidibe Explains Why Being A Black Woman Is "Pretty Lit R...
Ever since Gabourey Sidibe earned an Oscar nomination for her star turn in Lee Daniels’ 2009 movie Precious, she has been riding a wave of #BlackGirlMagi
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Sesali Bowen
Fashion
The Fashion Industry's Complicity With Sexual Abuse Sucks
Caryn Franklin MBE explores the fashion industry's dangerous problem with complicity in the sexual harassment of models.
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Caryn Franklin
Politics
How The Women Of The KKK Helped Architect A Hate Movement
In her new book, prize-winning historian Linda Gordon digs into the legacy of women in the KKK.
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Elizabeth Kiefer
Parenthood
You're Doomed To Be A Helicopter Parent — But It's Not Your Fault
We are raising different kids in different times, and — yeah, I’ll say it — it’s harder, and scarier, and it’s making us all a little nuts.
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Laura Norkin
Features
You Should Not Be "Shocked" By Harvey Weinstein
"Harvey Weinstein is a symptom of sickness run rampant, not just in Hollywood, but everywhere, in all of us."
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Kelsey Miller
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