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Christine Blasey Ford Reveals the Threats She's Faced Since Testifying Against Brett Kavanaugh


It’s hard to believe it’s only been two months since the contentious Senate confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified about her alleged sexual assault by Kavanaugh as a teenager, those two months have likely felt like a lifetime.

In early October, Blasey Ford said she and her family had already been forced to move four times due to ongoing threats. And last week (per The Cut), she updated supporters via a message on a GoFundMe page set up to help defray costs incurred because of her testimony and the ensuing security concerns.

“Words are not adequate to thank all of you who supported me since I came forward to tell the Senate that I had been sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh,” Blasey Ford wrote. “Your tremendous outpouring of support and kind letters have made it possible for us to cope with the immeasurable stress, particularly the disruption to our safety and privacy. Because of your support, I feel hopeful that our lives will return to normal.” She goes on to call the donations a “godsend” that have allowed her family to beef up security in light of “to protect ourselves against frightening threats.” Those security measures include physical protection, added features to their home, and housing while they were displaced.

The GoFundMe has raised almost $650,000—but now Blasey Ford is closing it to donations. “With immense gratitude, I am closing this account to further contributions,” she says. “All funds unused after completion of security expenditures will be donated to organizations that support trauma survivors. I am currently researching organizations where the funds can best be used. We will use this space to let you know when that process is complete.”

Even with all that has come with it, Blasey Ford is steadfast in her belief that she needed to do her civic duty in coming forward about Kavanaugh. (He has always vehemently denied the allegations.)

“Although coming forward was terrifying, and caused disruption to our lives, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to fulfill my civic duty,” she concludes. “Having done so, I am in awe of the many women and men who have written me to share similar life experiences, and now have bravely shared their experience with friends and family, many for the first time. I send you my heartfelt love and support.”



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Too Faced Gingerbread Lipstick Is the Only Thing I Want to Wear All Winter


It’s the beginning of November, and you know what that means: This holiday season is upon us. We’ve reached that transitional time when Halloween decorations are replaced by winter ones overnight—and when gift sets start appearing on shelves. Among the holiday products that have come out so far, I already found the one holiday-themed lipstick I’ll be wearing until spring. It smells like a chef’s kiss blend of gourmet fragrance chemicals, and I love it so much.

Flavored products generally aren’t my jam. I like the smell of Too Faced’s chocolate-scented bronzer and CoverGirl’s take on the same thing (because, chocolate), but I don’t go out of my way to shop for scented goods. Too Faced’s Melted Matte liquid lipstick in Gingerbread Girl, however, has me rethinking everything. It’s the most incredible-smelling lipstick I’ve ever known.

Like the brand’s Gingerbread Man ruddy, red-orange lipstick from last year, Gingerbread Girl smells warm and buttery. The color is slightly warmer than the original, which makes it a gorgeous toasted red hue. One layer reads pinky-brown, while a second takes it into brick-red territory. On the dry-down, it’s neither overtly moisturizing nor drying. I can feel it on my lips, but not in an uncomfortable way, and it usually lasts a few hours.

But, oh my God, the smell. I’m addicted to huffing this lipstick. To me, it smells like a cross between warm butterscotch chips, melted butter, and popcorn-flavor jelly beans. Whoever came up with it is an artisan of chemicals and fragrance. It’s a work of art. You don’t smell it once applied, but in the tube, it’s a bouquet of amazing.

A fair disclaimer: It’s not for everyone. You’ll either love it or you’ll hate it. While I was walking around the Glamour office raving about its scent, a couple of editors were repulsed by the buttery smell. But this winter I’ll be a gingerbread-girl-dancing around those (wrong) opinions, getting toasty warm, sniffing this lipstick, and looking good to boot.

Too Faced Gingerbread Girl Melted Matte Liquified Long Wear Lipstick, $21, ulta.com

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Too Faced Is Making a 'Better Than Birthday Sex' Mascara for Its Anniversary


Too Faced is celebrating its twentieth birthday this year, and with the brand’s inclination for everything pink, flashy, and over-the-top, it’s going big on glitter and nostalgia for the milestone. And also: birthday sex!

It’s true: The brand is releasing a limited anniversary edition of its famous Better Than Sex Mascara, which is the most-pinned, top-selling prestige mascara in the U.S., appropriately named Better Than Birthday Sex. The good news: Neither the wand nor the formula is changing, so it’ll still give you the dark, thick, fluttery lashes it’s beloved for. The better news: the collectors’-item packaging features its same pale pink color but looks like it’s been rolled in a tub of glitter.

Aside from that b-day treat, the brand is also bringing back some of its original products with modern formulas and packaging. The collection’s biggest drop is the Then and Now Eyeshadow Palette. The packaging is dope, a light pink case embossed with both Too Faced’s original branding (it’s very nineties), and the present’s swirly glam font.

The palette pulls from the 10 original eyeshadows that the brand launched with in 1998, alongside 10 new iterations given a modern twist. The original set reads very Spice Girls, in the best possible way. Think sparkly pinks, silvers, purples, browns, and golds. And if you’ve opened a Too Faced palette over the past 10 years, you’ll probably recognize the brand’s signature sparkly lavender. In the bottom row, the 2018 half of the palette incorporates a few mattes, alongside the OG glitters rendered in Instagram’s favorite foiled, high-shine tones. Too Faced has had fun with scent-themed collections recently, and this new palette joins its Peach, Chocolate, and Cocoa lines with a birthday-cake-scented flavor.

Lip-wise, Too Faced is launching 10 Metallic Sparkle Lipsticks. Eight of those callback to the brand’s 1998 launch, which means they’re high-shine, glitter-infused shades of ruby, blue, gold, copper, crimson, fuchsia, purple, and turquoise. Two new colors join the bunch, a metallic taupe with a dark gold, glittered tube, and a sparkly, fluorescent pink that’s very Glam Barbie. Lipstick in the nineties was notorious for its chalky finish, so the archived lipsticks’ ingredients got a zhuzh with the addition of avocado oil to moisturize and smooth things out. Scroll on for a glimpse at the new products to come, all of which are hitting Sephora shelves today.

PHOTO: Courtesy of brand

PHOTO: Courtesy of brand

PHOTO: Courtesy of brand

PHOTO: Courtesy of brand

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Sophia Bush Opens Up About the Alleged Harassment She Faced on the *One Tree Hill* Set


Back in November, in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the rise of the #MeToo movement, members of the cast and crew of One Tree Hill—including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton—released a letter accusing the creator of that show, Mark Schwahn, of sexual harassment.

“Many of us were, to varying degrees, manipulated psychologically and emotionally. More than one of us is still in treatment for post-traumatic stress,” the letter read. “Many of us were put in uncomfortable positions and had to swiftly learn to fight back, sometimes physically, because it was made clear to us that the supervisors in the room were not the protectors they were supposed to be. Many of us were spoken to in ways that ran the spectrum from deeply upsetting, to traumatizing, to downright illegal. And a few of us were put in positions where we felt physically unsafe.”

Now, in a new interview with Andy Cohen, Bush is taking the conversation even further, describing a time she says Schwahn touched her inappropriately. “The first time Mark Schwahn grabbed my ass I hit him in front of six other producers and I hit him fucking hard,” she told Cohen. “And he came back to L.A. and I was told years later by one of the then writers who became an EP that he came back being like, ‘That fucking entitled bitch who does she think she is,’ and this very sweet man named Mike who I love and who is like a ride or die for me was like, ‘Maybe you just shouldn’t touch the girls,’ and, ya know, Mark gave him the option of shut up and keep your job or get out.”

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Bush found herself in a difficult situation: quit and “kill” her career or stay in an uncomfortable workplace. “Because this is what people don’t understand, they go, ‘Oh well why don’t you just leave?’” she says. “First of all, why am I supposed to suffer and kill my own career because somebody else can’t keep their dick in their pants? Second of all, there is a whole crew that people don’t know about.”

Bush stayed, and Schwahn helmed One Tree Hill for eight seasons. However, after the OTH allegations were made, additional ones were levied against him by the cast and crew of The Royals. He was investigated and subsequently fired from that show in December.



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A Quarter of Women Have Faced Sexual Harassment from Someone With Power Over Them at Work


Between the sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the flood of women sharing similar experiences through the hashtag #MeToo, workplace harassment is receiving more attention than ever (and it’s about time). What so many of these stories share is men using their power over women at work to get away with such behavior—and according to a new ABC News-Washington Post poll, this plays out in far more work environments than just Hollywood.

Of the 740 American women surveyed between October 12 and 15—just after the Weinstein allegations came out—54 percent said they had experienced unwanted sexual advances at some point in their lives. Thirty percent had this experience at work, and 23 percent received these advances from someone with influence over them.

But not all incidents of sexual harassment are getting the kind of attention that Weinstein’s have. In fact, the vast majority are go completely unaddressed. Seventy-five percent of the women surveyed—and 95 percent of those who had been harassed in the workplace—said men usually get away with this kind of behavior without repercussions. Given this pattern, it’s understandable that 58 percent of the women who had been harassed at work didn’t report the harassment. In fact, a recent Women Who Tech survey found that among women in tech who reported sexual harassment in their workplaces, only nine percent said their harassers faced punishment, whereas 35 percent said they themselves faced negative repercussions.

These are by no means the first data to show how disturbingly common and inadequately addressed workplace harassment is. Another 2016 survey found that 60 percent of senior-level women in tech had been sexually harassed at work, and 65 percent said these incidents involved someone in a position of power over them.

Of the 1,010 Americans surveyed for the ABC News-Washington Post poll, 75 percent said workplace sexual harassment was a problem, compared to just 64 percent in 2011. This change shows how powerful it can be for women to speak out through hashtags like #MeToo. In addition to creating an environment where other women feel more comfortable sharing their own stories, they’re letting people know that it’s long past time to take harassment seriously.



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Brianna Wu Faced Down the Alt-Right and Now She's Running for Congress


The #Gamergate cyberattack against Brianna Wu, in which an In­ter­net mob terrorized the software engineer after she spoke out against sexism and misogyny in the gaming industry, was tactically elegant in its launch and spectacularly cruel in its delivery. At its height in 2014, she saw her home address and personal information scrawled across the Web, and received more than 180 death threats across her social media accounts. Among the most vile were promises to rape her with military-grade weapons. Wu knows that threats like these led some women to quit the business and likely discouraged many others from entering altogether. But she continued to speak out.

Now the 40-year-old video game developer is launching herself into a different kind of firestorm: She’s running for Congress in Massachusetts’ Eighth District on a platform crafted, in part, from her experience facing off against white-supremacist groups, which, she notes, have been against not only women gamers but also public policies that benefit anyone not white, heterosexual, and male. Her goal: economic and political parity for women, LGBTQ Americans, people of color, and the working poor. “All these forces are tied together,” Wu told ­Glamour from her headquarters in Walpole. “The system is not working for any of them.”

The idea that the system is broken has motivated thousands of women to launch political campaigns; 11,000 have told She Should Run, a nonpartisan group that offers resources to women interested in seeking office, that they are actively planning to run. Founder and CEO Erin Loos Cutraro says this new crop of talent is “sick of not having their voices and perspectives represented” and recognizes “the impact they can make at all levels of government.”

Wu, a self-taught engineer who started programming at age eight and took university classes at 14, is planning a campaign that’s social-media-savvy and based in door-to-door canvassing. She’ll need every tool in her arsenal to pull off a Democratic primary win against incumbent Stephen Lynch, who’s heavily backed by the state’s party. (“I see a Democratic party that’s not standing up for us,” she says.) If elected, she pledges, “my first mission is to make investments in the economy to help people just be able to live.” Also on the docket: cybersecurity legislation to protect online privacy.

Wu’s liberal convictions may be surprising given her roots in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she grew up in a conservative household with a steady diet of Fox News and, she says, regularly heard conversations disparaging people of color and Jews. She got her first political experience interning for former U.S. Senator Trent Lott (R–Miss.), but in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, when the Bush administration declared war on Iraq, she felt she was on the wrong side.

“I haven’t talked to my family since I went home with a ‘John Kerry for President’ bumper sticker on my car,” Wu says. “It hurts me every single day.” But she refuses to keep her mouth shut and her head down, especially after seeing white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Boston in August. The rallies, she says, “just made me double down.”

Wu knows that stepping into politics could make her a target again. “Of course there’s fear,” she says. “But ultimately, I am an American, and I love this country. I can live with knowing that running for office puts my life in danger. What I can’t live with is doing nothing.”

Know a woman who’d be a great leader? Or want to run yourself? Go to emilyslist.org, sheshouldrun.org, or maggieslist.org.

This article originally appeared in the November 2017 issue.



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