Last week international beauty brand SK-II* invited me to attend the 2020 Makers Conference in California as a guest at their expense. I was delighted to accept—not just because I was excited to hear from the incredible women (and men) that Makers, a yearly event highlighting female change makers, had lined up as speakers, but…
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“I stole my first romance novel from my mom. She saw me reading it and freaked out, because nobody should have to explain an orgasm to a five-year-old,” remembers Seattle-based author Olivia Waite. Decades later, her interest hasn’t faded. Waite is one of around 1,900 people in attendance at the Romance Writers of America conference…
Read moreDonald Trump has boasted that “no one has more respect for women” than he does—but he sure seems to have trouble telling them apart. The president struggled to tell the difference between two blonde female reporters at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö on Monday. As Niinistö called upon a member of…
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PHOTO: Drew Angerer/Getty Images On Saturday afternoon, a 20-year-old man with a history of domestic violence plowed a car through a group of people who had assembled in Charlottesville to protest a flood of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other far-right groups that had descended on the Virginia city (The reason these alt-righters were there: to…
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