The process of applying lipstick often requires little more than muscle memory. Some outline their lips for precision. Others do a casual swipe and blot. It’s a routine one could easily take for granted, but Aaron Philip doesn’t. The Antigua-born 18-year-old is now based in New York, where she’s broken boundaries as the first black,…
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I’ve been struggling with this whole romance thing for the last decade. Honestly, who hasn’t? But my situation is apparently even more complicated: I have a disability. I say “apparently” because I want to date—I want the same things any able-bodied woman wants out of a relationship. But I was born with a genetic bone…
Read moreI’ve been to plenty of weddings in my life—cousins, friends, William and Kate (OK, that last one was from the comfort of my own home, but you get the idea)— and I left each one feeling kind of wistful. Will that ever be me? Am I destined to spend eternity at the single’s table? And,…
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