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For decades, internationally respected sports medicine physician Larry Nassar sexually abused at least 150 girls and young women under the guise of providing medical treatment for their sports injuries. He exploited the trust children are taught to place, unquestioningly, in doctors, “treating” them as a physician at Michigan State University, at a private gymnastics gym, as the USA Gymnastics Team doctor, and in his own office and home, among other places. In many cases he abused them while their parents were in the exam room. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided over the trial, denied his requests to be spared multiple days of testimony, giving the women he abused the opportunity to address him directly. What follows are 29 of the most poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting images and statements from their testimony.
No matter which side of the political aisle you sit, it’s hard to ignore the fact that on Saturday, January 20, 2018—exactly one year after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States—women ruled the day. Millions of people mobilized in cities across the world, signs in hand, to march in protest of the president, yes, but also the myriad of other challenges we faced this year, including the sheer number of men abusing their power and sexually harassing women, the future of DACA, and the rollback of reproductive rights.
Of course, the beauty of a demonstration is just being there—your presence is more than enough—but it’s even better when you’re carrying a savage protest sign, and marchers in cities including D.C., New York, Chicago, Rome, Denver, Munich, and Park City came to play. From elaborate cartoons to bold messages, here are the most powerful signs and moments from the worldwide marches.
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In a call for more transparency in advertising, Pretty Little Liars star Troian Bellisario is urging brands to label images that they Photoshop—a move that she believes will help girls and women who suffer from body image and eating disorders, just as she once did, and shift potentially harmful cultural standards of beauty.
On Saturday, she posted an Instagram highlighting a viral ATTN: video about a new law in France that requires images to be labeled if they’ve been airbrushed or Photoshopped to make models look thinner—and her clear support for this provision.
“We in America should have MANDATORY WARNINGS on images in advertisements and PRESS that have been doctored,” she captioned her post. “Because the real issue (in my opinion) is that we are selling products (clothes, perfume, music, film) on unrealistic and doctored images of people.”
She continued, saying: “And I for one would want to know, I would want my friends to know and strangers and especially young men and women to know if they were looking at something real or something fake. Because then we can see clearly that we are being sold products on the basis of first making ourselves feel less than (not pretty enough, not skinny enough, not healthy enough, whatever) so we ‘need to buy this product to be like the person in the ad. And feel better about ourselves.’ Well, guess what? The person in the ad doesn’t even look like that.”
(There’s a second part to France’s law, too—one that she’s not as much of a fan of. That’s the bit requiring models to have a doctor’s note saying they’re healthy enough to work. Bellisario says she doesn’t want to body-shame naturally thin women, “nor do I want to dictate whether or not they should work based on weight or whether or not they have a mental illness (ED).”)
Regarding the Photoshop labels, she thinks that highlighting the effect of Photoshop on models’ bodies could be a necessary and beneficial reminder to everyone that the ideals reflected in advertisements are constructs—not an actual reflection of what we must look like in order to be beautiful. “What an amazing world it would be if we could just acknowledge that,” she captioned her ‘gram. “And then celebrate that we all look different, have different bodies and different backgrounds and histories, and then find all of those differences beautiful. Happy Saturday.”
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Over the past the year, a wave of change has disrupted the cosmetics industry—from the types of spokesmodels cast in ads to the language we use when discussing what constitutes “beauty.” Still, as Fenty’s breakthrough campaign and product assortment recently showed, there’s much to be done. Adding to that conversation, Jamie Kern Lima, the CEO of It Cosmetics, just called for an end to “unattainable” images in advertising, directly taking on the airbrushed, impossible-to-achieve look women are indirectly told to aspire.
While accepting the Achiever Award from the Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) organization last week, Kern Lima recited the experience she had when she was first trying to get her now $1.2 billion business off the ground: Investor after investor wouldn’t back the brand because she refused to use thin, flaw-free models. One male investor even told her, “I’m just not sure women will want to buy makeup from someone who looks like you—you know, with your body and weight.”
“The experts told me one thing, but my gut told me another,” she went on to say. “What my gut told me is, women are tired of buying from ads and commercials who don’t look like them.” Powerhouse that she is, Kern Lima followed her intuition and used her make-it-or-break-it QVC moment to demo the brand’s concealer on models who the products were actually created for—women with acne, hereditary dark circles, wrinkles, and her own rosacea-prone skin.
“In the beauty industry we’ve bought into the notion that you have to show these unattainable images of aspiration in order to sell products. And me standing here right now, and the success of It Cosmetics, is proof that this isn’t true,” she said, going on to further implore that the rest of the industry needs to catch up with the demand for authenticity. “I want you to think and answer this question honestly. When you look at the images of models and of beauty for your brand, have they ever made you feel insecure or less-than? Have the images you put out in the world empowered you or disempowered you? […] How did the images you saw of beauty impact you as a young girl? How do they impact you today? […] What will you do with the power that is you?”
Watch her full speech to beauty industry execs, below, which was met with a standing ovation. It’s long, but worth your time.
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Over the past week, tens of thousands of people showed up to rallies across the world that, in solidarity with the tragic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, protested against racism and bigotry. On Saturday in Boston, for example, police estimate 30,000 to 40,000 counter-protesters drowned out the roughly 50 people who showed up for a “Free Speech” rally.
Free Speech Boston, the group that organized the rally, said their event had been planned before the events of Charlottesville, when Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of others were injured protesting a white supremacist rally near the University of Virginia’s campus. Though organizers of the Boston gathering publicly denounced “the politics of supremacy and violence” that were on display in Charlottesville, two of the 14 scheduled speakers held far-right views, causing many to believe that the “Free Speech” event was serving as another platform for hate speech and prompting a massive turnout from Black Lives Matter and other groups.
But it wasn’t just Boston that people were protesting against white supremacists and bigotry: from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Portland, Maine—as well as in London, Amsterdam, and beyond—participants carried signs condemning racism and offering messages of love for all races, colors, and creeds. Here are some of the most powerful images that prove love always has and always will trump hate.
Boston, Massachusetts, August 19, 2017
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 19, 2017
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New Orleans, Louisiana, August 19, 2017
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Mountain View, California, August 19, 2017
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Amsterdam, August 17, 2017
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Chicago, Illinois, August 15, 2017
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London, August 14, 2017
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New York City, August 14, 2017
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 14, 2017
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Portland, Maine, August 13, 2017
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