Given that it’s 2018, it’s a little surprising to realize that the United States still has no national women’s history museum, nor is there any such building currently under construction. But the nonpartisan National Women’s History Museum organization, founded in 1996, is trying to change that: Members and potential donors gathered on Saturday for a…
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Activist and actress-turned-gubernatorial candidateCynthia Nixon lost her highly publicized bid for New York governor on Thursday night, with her opponent and incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo cinching about 65 percent of votes. Despite the defeat, Nixon left her supporters with a rousing concession speech, in which she urged progressives to continue fighting for change and pushing…
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Grab an oversize salad and one of those Sprites from Khloé’s refrigerator that she’ll never drink, because there is some maybe real, maybe staged Kardashian drama happening on Twitter right now—and it’s all I can think about. Like most Kardashian fights, the root of this one is something very serious and life-changing: the family’s Christmas…
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There’s a lot going on in Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s wildly creative, sci-fi comedy about a black telemarketer who discovers the key to success is using a “white voice”—and there’s not much one can discuss without spoiling the movie. (Trust, the less you know, the better on this one.) One spoiler-free way to…
Read moreConversations around equal pay are blaring, largely thanks to the dozens of famous women calling out their male counterparts for getting bigger paychecks. This is, obviously, a very good thing. But for all the merit these declarations warrant — and all the echoing cries of “hell yes! Empowering!” — the dialogue is also tinged with…
Read moreLong before she starred in Suits or got engaged to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle was just an average kid—one who just so happened to appear on Nick News as part of her fight for gender equality. If you didn’t catch Markle’s appearance at the 2015 UN Women conference detailing this very experience, allow us to…
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