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It's Not ‘Weird’ to Be an Adult Woman Who Loves Disney


Patty Holliday, who’s attended three D23 Expos now, says her first visit to Walt Disney World was on her honeymoon—but after the loss of her son, Jacob, in 2005, the resort took on a deeper meaning. For her, visits to Orlando help keep his spirit alive. “It’s the last place that my entire family can be together, in a sense,” she explains. “I cherish the park visits with the kids because of those early visits with Jacob.” Now a full-time Disney blogger, Holliday is particularly passionate about the seasonal RunDisney events through Walt Disney World. She’s completed nearly two dozen and credits running through Cinderella Castle as her motivation. “Disney means pretty much everything to me,” she says. “It’s where the stories are told, the memories are made, and my bravery was found.”

When I talked with Lisa Basilio, she was wrapped in swaths of sea foam green tulle in homage to Moana’s Te Fiti. It was so elaborate I found it hard to believe she’s never done this before; Basilio has always been a fan—she even got married at Disneyland—but D23 Expo 2019 was her first foray into wearing intricate costumes in public. “It’s such an amazing place where people feel safe,” she says of Disneyland. “They let go of their stress from the real world and adults become kids again. It’s an amazing transformation, and I love to be a part of that.”

For these women, and most people at D23 Expo for that matter, being a Disney fan is more about friendship, community, and sisterhood than any love of the mouse. Below, we talk with more women at the fan convention who break down why Disney is so important to them. Turns out it’s not such a small world after all.

Sarah Sterling and Tiff Mink

Best friends and fixtures of the Disney community, Sarah Sterling and Tiff Mink are an example of how Mickey and co. have helped women discover their creative outlets as well as a chosen family. Shortly after they met five years ago, the two collaborated on a YouTube channel called ThingamaVlogs—a play on The Little Mermaid’s underwater trinket collection—which featured a mix of planning tips, comedy videos, and travel vlogs that clocked over 70,000 subscribers. ThingamaVlogs is no longer active, but the women now have their own individual YouTube channels devoted to all things Disney.

The two are like anthropologists of post-’90s Mickey Mouse culture, and they do so flawlessly. “Instagram truly changed everything for the Disney community,” Sterling says, crediting the platform’s explosive growth and easily accessible format for making Disney cooler than ever before. “Park culture,” as she calls it, has snowballed in turn, yielding its own trends, styles, and subcultures. The more the merrier, Sterling says. “All I ever wanted in middle school were people to talk to about Disney Parks, and now there’s hundreds of thousands of people,” she adds. A life-long goal was finally realized earlier this year when she began working for Walt Disney Imagineering on the Star Wars global portfolio.

Mink, a content creator, says she didn’t visit the theme parks frequently growing up but held a prevailing passion for all things Disney, including an obsession with Disney Channel films that extended through college. As self-described “ride-or-die Disney fans,” as Mink puts it, these friends say they love every aspect of Disney: the history, lore, design, animation, all of it. At D23 Expo, Mink even served as something of a litmus test for in-the-know fans. She dressed as legendary Imagineer Tony Baxter, complete with rolled-up ride blueprints in a leather satchel. While we talked, several stopped her to rave about her appliquéd mustache and Imagineering hard hat. Others strolled past without a word.

Tiff Mink is wearing a costume inspired by legendary Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter.

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But though it’s not exactly niche to be an adult who’s into Disney anymore, Mink and Sterling still feel some judgment come their way. “People just think it’s weird because they have this idea that Disney is for children,” Mink says. But for her, it’s no different than a football fan traveling to see the Super Bowl in person. “Just because you don’t get it doesn’t mean it’s weird.”





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World Market is Having a Major Home Sale—and It's So Good


It’s November, which is basically December, which means it’s already 2020 and you’re behind on your New Year’s resolutions. But really, one great thing about this time of year is that there are so many incredible deals to shop (like the World Market sale we’re about to get into) that are perfect for gifting your friends and family—or getting for yourself because that counts, too.

But before you start bookmarking all the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, make sure to check out World Market’s can’t-miss home sale. The retailer is offering 40% off on all its home furniture throughout the end of November—think comfy couches to watch your favorite rom coms on, space-saving shelves to store your growing collection of books, and cool living room accents to zhoosh up your space. No coupon code is needed to take advantage of the 40% off discount, and the retailer is offering free shipping on all orders over $75. Some of these deals are so good they’re practically begging you to swap out that frayed ottoman your cat has claimed ownership of as her throne-slash-scratching-pole.

Whether you need an extra chair or a spot to prop up your feet, we did a first pass on all the sale items at World Market so you don’t have to (you’re welcome). Ahead, find out which 17 pieces we’re adding to our carts ASAP, because it doesn’t matter if you’re into layering neutrals or mixing tropical prints—home deals these good don’t last for long.

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Kim Kardashian Recreated Elle Wood's Harvard Video for Halloween, and It's Perfect


Kim Kardashian has had some memorable Halloween costumes over the years. She’s been Anna Wintour, Tejano queen Selena, and even Madonna, but this year might mark her best outfit yet. On Thursday, October 31, she posted a photo of herself in a blond wig, touting a bag with a very familiar-looking chihuahua in it and holding a pink feather pen. Yup, it was all in the style of the one and only Elle Woods from the beloved rom-com Legally Blonde.

Kardashian even went the extra mile by posting an entire video inspired by Woods’s Harvard admissions tape. She recreated some of Woods’s most iconic scenes and lines, including the brilliant “I’m able to recall hundreds of important details at the drop of a hat.” Kim wore several of Elle’s looks while recording the video, including the hot pink dress and neon green bikini that Reese Witherspoon made famous in the film.

The costume is clearly poking fun at Kim Kardashian’s goal of becoming a lawyer. Skeptics mocked her after she told Vogue earlier this year she was pursuing a law career and was hoping to take the bar in 2022. “I had to think long and hard about this,” she said. Her decision came after got involved with the justice system while working to help release Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who had been serving a life sentence for a first offense, nonviolent drug charge. “I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more,” Kardashian said. This Elle Woods bit proves Kardashian is taking the criticism surrounding her career pivot lightly. Reese Witherspoon is probably living for this, I’m sure. Who knows? Maybe Kim will make an appearance in Legally Blonde 3.





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The CW's Nancy Drew Review: It's an Even Sexier, Scarier Version of Riverdale


As for the Riverdale comparisons, McMann gets it. Both shows are melodramas that center on beautiful teens in frightening situations—but she makes it clear there are a few significant differences between the two.

“There are very natural similarities you can draw,” she says. “It’s a group of friends going around, solving mysteries, getting themselves wrapped up in some dark and scary things. But there’s a little bit more grittiness [in Riverdale]. I think our show is a little more subtle. Part of the whole Riverdale thing is that they’re playing comic book characters, and it’s a comic book world.”

McMann makes a good point here. Because Riverdale is based on Archie Comics, the storylines and characters can be a bit more outlandish. Archie, Veronica, and the gang are all painted colorfully with broad strokes, while the characters in Nancy Drew are more difficult to define. Take Nancy’s coworker Bess (Madison Jaizani)—she seems like a Cheryl Blossom archetype at first, but she softens as the pilot unfolds. And George Fayne (Leah Lewis), Nancy’s boss, appears type-A and straight-laced but is actually hiding a monumental secret. (I won’t tell you what.) In that respect, the show is a bit more grounded in reality than Riverdale.

But it’s not realistic in other ways⁠—namely, the ghosts. Yes, there are spirits in this Nancy Drew reboot. One, in particular, is Nancy’s primary suspect in the show’s central murder mystery. I’m not kidding: She thinks a ghost killed a living, breathing human being. In this world it’s totally plausible.

“There’s a huge slant to the supernatural,” McMann says. “This is a ‘Ghosts are real. Very, very real’ story. There’s this darker side of the reality of all these supernatural beings and how actually terrifying they are. Though there have definitely been nods to the supernatural throughout the Nancy Drew book series and the original canon, it was definitely surprising to me when I first read the script. It still is as we get more and more scripts. I’m like, ‘Oh, we’re really going there.'”

McMann thinks the show’s horror elements make it more compelling. “It’s like this weird combination of Scooby Doo and Twin Peaks,” she says. (Riverdale, if you remember, also garnered Twin Peaks comparisons when it first debuted.) “It’s so mysterious and scary, but then the characters kind of make light of it. There are moments where it’s very intense, but then afterwards it’s like, ‘Hey, guys! Wow, wasn’t that wild?'”

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One thing McMann hopes viewers don’t find wild is Nancy’s inherently feminist characterization. In this version she’s viewed as a reliable crime scene investigator—the fact that she’s an 18-year-old doesn’t factor at all. “Nancy’s always been a little bit of a rebel, paving her own way and defying female expectations,” she says. “Nancy is who she is, and nobody’s questioning what she’s doing. There’s no, ‘Wow, she can do that and she’s a girl!’ Of course she can. Nobody questions it because that’s who she is, and that’s the world that we’re living in.”



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Netflix's The Politician Review: It's a Hilarious Mix of Glee, Scream Queens, and, The Act


“I love to take bites out of the very confrontational nature of Payton and the over-confidence and the sort of lack of empathy and lack of regard for anyone else’s motives and feelings, because I’m very much not like that,” Platt tells Glamour about his character, who, at one point in the pilot, literally ponders whether or not he’s a sociopath. “It was delicious to play someone who is so headstrong and walks into a room and believes he’s the best person in the room.”

Boynton has similar feelings about playing the antagonistic Astrid. “She can be such a powerhouse and power presence, and I love those moments,” she says. “That happens mostly at her worst, and I love that part of her. I love playing Astrid at her most aggressive. She has such a presence and is not in the slightest afraid to take up space in the room.”

That aspect of The Politician is definitely refreshing. The female characters on the show—whether that’s Astrid, Dusty, or Georgina—aren’t concerned with being “likable.” They have elections to win, scams to execute, or mansions to iconically glide around. These women aren’t necessarily realistic, but they’re not idealized, either. They’re self-indulgent, over-the-top, occasionally villainous, and always entertaining. Think Chanel Oberlin from Scream Queens after 15 espresso shots.

Which, again, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The Politician paints its characters boldly and with broad strokes. It’s satirical and cynical and, at times, a bit dark. That aforementioned tragic event is truly devastating—and while it’s given the reverence it deserves, the pilot moves quickly back to Payton and Astrid’s win-at-all-costs antics. There’s not a ton of emotional nuance and sensitivity in The Politician. Know that before going in.

Ben Platt as Payton in The Politician.

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There are, however, several parallels to another Murphy classic: Glee. Payton could easily be the younger brother of Rachel Berry, McKinley High School’s show-choir all-star who was determined to make it on Broadway. “Payton definitely has that blind Rachel Berry, I will get it by all means necessary [motto],” Platt says.

That being said, Glee was a polarizing show, and The Politician will undoubtedly be too. It currently has a 55 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics are pretty much down the middle. What ultimately will determine your taste for The Politician is your opinion on Ryan Murphy content. This isn’t one of his made-for-the-masses productions, like American Crime Story. His humor and brand are written all over this, in its most extreme forms. Personally, I loved it. Some will hate it. Regardless, I think you should give at least the pilot a whirl—if anything to see Gwyneth Paltrow prune flowers in full glam. I could watch nine hours of that alone.



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It's Just Hair, But When You're a Trans Woman, a Ponytail Can Mean a Whole Lot More


When I was in kindergarten—and very much in the closet as transgender—I had begun to crave a ponytail like I saw on many of the girls in my class. I’m well aware that for many girls and women, the ponytail is a “bare-minimum” style, often for lazy days, but the girls I saw in my class emulated the women I saw on television who were strong, confident, and successful. I thought they were cool, and I understood immediately I could never have one.

Even at six, I knew better. I was raised in deeply conservative Texas, in a world with firmly cemented gender roles. I was a boy and I had better keep to “boy things.” The bouncy ponytail of my dreams? Not a boy thing.

In 1999, when I was 12, the U.S. Women’s National Team won their second World Cup, and Mia Hamm became a personal icon. For weeks, I dreamed of what it would be like to have the freedom to sport a ponytail like Hamm. By then, I was fully aware of a desire within me to be a girl, but I kept it buried in the back of my brain, suppressed whenever possible. Still, it sometimes crept up, summoned by the most mundane signifiers of female-ness. Mia Hamm was confident and beautiful and successful, and although I had no sense of what “womanhood” meant to me, I couldn’t help but feel like her hair represented all the things I was missing. I wanted an authentic life. I wanted to feel confident. I wanted a ponytail.

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I got through high school by pushing these thoughts down deep and leaning into whatever “male” things I could stomach. I played football. I engaged in some sort of half-hearted male performance when I interacted with relatives, including one who told me to “stop listening to faggot music” and was deeply upset after I purchased a scented lotion from Bath & Body Works. I joined the military—and even went into the infantry, which at the time coincidentally excluded women.

I did the things I was told a “male person” should do, believing I’d eventually be cleansed of this painful longing. Instead, the facade exacerbated my depression and anxiety. I went to therapy for years had numerous uncomfortable conversations, and came out as a trans woman in late 2017. It is the best choice I’ve ever made. It saved me.

But it took my hair took a lot longer to catch up with the new me. I’d grown accustomed to army-issue crewcuts, which grow out fast. It didn’t occur to me immediately that the hair I’d dreamed of would take years to come in, and I didn’t feel confident enough to wear a wig. So I had to wait it out, for over a year, fiddling with my hair after a shower to see if it was long enough yet and consistently bummed when it wasn’t quite there.

I hadn’t tried putting my hair up in months when one evening in late July, I absentmindedly grabbed a hair tie off my shelf and made a go of it. After some awkward handling and smoothing of rogue strands, I adjusted the band high on the back of my head and turned toward the mirror. I don’t know how to adequately articulate the combination of happiness and relief that I felt in that moment. It’s just hair, I thought. But then I glimpsed the waves, how the strands bundled together so beautifully. I couldn’t help it. I got emotional.

Here I stood on a summer night; with a life my six-year-old self wouldn’t have dared to imagine. I’m 32 now and old enough to admit my anxiety over seemingly trivial things. I think some part of me was worried this thing I’d wanted for more than 25 years would look terrible once I finally got it. I’m pleased to report: It was perfect.



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