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What's Driving Sexual Assault On Campus — & Why Betsy DeVos Has Less Power Than ...

Battle Of The Sexes Is The Feminist Blockbuster We Need In 2017

Elizabeth Kiefer

Why Were There So Many Chinese Designers This NYFW?

Ellen Pao On How The Google Memo Is Just The Tip Of The Toxic Tec...

It was a “dark time” in her life, Pao recently reflected on a phone call with Refinery29: one in which her days were managed down to the minute and she

by Elizabeth Kiefer

The Big Business Of Street Style Bait

Angling to get your street style picture taken is an important piece of the blogger-industrial complex. Just as Zanita Whittington.

Read The Full Transcript Of Our Exclusive Interview With Hillary ...

At her headquarters in midtown Manhattan last Thursday, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down for an exclusive interview with Refinery29 to discuss her

by Arianna Davis

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Colleges Are Adding Luxe Perks To Lure Students. But Daycare? Too...

Tracy Moronatty didn’t tell anyone when she found out she was pregnant. The 19-year-old freshman at Southwest Community College in San Diego was broke, o

by Torey Van Oot

What Do We Want? A Plan B Vending Machine! When Do We Want It? Now!

We took a look inside the quiet movement to make emergency contraception truly accessible on campus.

by Amelia Harnish

Hillary Clinton Has No Regrets & She Told Us Exactly Why

When the Secretary strode into HRC headquarters in midtown Manhattan to greet the R29 team, she exuded a warm energy, the kind that often got lost in trans

by Arianna Davis

The Future Is Now: Examining Fashion’s Love Affair With Dystopian...

I have a box of Soylent sitting atop my kitchen cabinets — the ironically named drinkable meal replacement that’s engineered to deliver maximum nutrien

Stop Quoting The Cerulean Speech Because It’s Not Even Right

If you want to see how far a fashion editor’s eyes go back, try and recite the cerulean speech at her. There is no fashion quotable that is more widely r

How The Vicious Boy King Of Free Speech Sparked A Battle At Berkeley

The sun has been down for hours, but Milo Yiannopoulos is wearing white Eurotrash shades indoors, complemented by a large yellow snake named Jared curled a

by Torey Van Oot

Feminism's 1970s Flagship Faded From View — But In 2017 It's Back...

Not long after that first big march down Fifth Avenue commemorating the 19th Amendment, August 26 was officially dubbed Women’s Equality Day. But true eq

by Elizabeth Kiefer

Why Our Student Council Presidents Are Women, But Our Politicians...

Rini Sampath was the first woman to run for student body president at the University of Southern California in a decade. It was a big deal, and an even big

A Day In The Life Of Kylie Jenner's BFF, Model Jordyn Woods

by Arianna Davis

Disappearing Polos: The Terror Of Blending In — & Getting Away Wi...

In a video full of grotesque words and racist chants, the most horrifying part of the Charlottesville reel posted by documentarian CJ Hunt on GQ was silent

How Swimsuits For All Transformed The Bathing Suit Industry

It all started with the “fatkini.” In May 2012, blogger Gabi Gregg called on plus-size women to share photos of themselves wearing their two-piece bath

by Arianna Davis

Why Women Are Swiping Left On America’s Most Popular Men’s Haircut

This story was originally published on February 3, 2017. Short on the sides, and long on top: the undercut; the Macklemore — it’s the slicked-back hair

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We Need To Talk About The Anti-Semitism At The Charlottesville Pr...

This weekend, self-identifying white nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis marched on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville and vi

Why It's So Important Hollywood Is (Finally!) Normalizing Interra...

There's a scene in the new movie Ingrid Goes West where the quirky title character, played by Aubrey Plaza, asks her Batman-obsessed landlord (O'

by Arianna Davis

Why The Mallpocalypse Hasn't Come For The Mall Of America

When The Mall of America opened 25 years ago this week, the media panned it as a really dumb idea. For one, they said, it was too much a gimmick. The bigge

The Fashion Influencer Has Found A New Gig

Hawking a Birkin on Instagram? So 2011. Here's why influencers are flocking to wellness, cooking, travel, and home decor like never before.

by Max Berlinger

'Til Trump Do Us Part: The Relationship Deal Breaker We Never Saw...

We felt it during primary season, when Bernie and Hillary drove a wedge between the progressively minded and romantically involved; we felt it during the c

by Elizabeth Kiefer

Just What The Doctor Ordered? Women In Medicine Flood The Ballot

Pediatrician Mai-Khanh Tran exudes the sort of sunny, pleasant, and calm disposition you might expect of someone who works with kids all day. But the GOP e

by Torey Van Oot

Why Judging The Poor Isn’t Actually Helping Anybody

Judging the poor — or pretending that rules of logic apply to something often determined by blind luck — makes all of us less human. And while empathy

by Ashley C. Ford

We Interviewed Charlize Theron & She Is Just As Badass As We Thought

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin just before the fall of the wall in 1989 to find a mysterious list of double agents. Sounds like yet another Jame

by Arianna Davis

Why Girls Trip Is The Most Important Movie Of The Summer

Standup comic Tiffany Haddish is known for her fearlessly raunchy comedy routines (like this one about farting during doggie style sex), so it’s fitting

by Arianna Davis

When You Have To Begin Again, Clothing Can Help You Heal

Patricia shares a room that’s just big enough for a twin-sized bunk bed; a small wardrobe; and a long, narrow vanity. She and her roommate need to be mer

This Is The New Face Of The Pro-Life Movement

These activists aren't old white men — they're young, they're social-media savvy, and they're predominantly female.

by Torey Van Oot

This Is How Abortion Ends In America

This is the doomsday scenario in which we lose access to abortion in the United States. The worst part? It's already happening.

by Amelia Harnish

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