America Ferrera is a relatively new mom, but she’s definitely not a new activist. She kicked off January 2017 by investigating the realities of health care access in South Texas. By that October, Ferrera had publicly joined the ranks of women saying #MeToo, revealing on Instagram that she was sexually assaulted when she was just…
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…when everyone subjects themselves to terrifying experiences all in the name of some Halloween fun. We binge-watch The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, scream over the return of Michael Myers in Halloween, and pay good money to have strangers in costumes scare us senseless at haunted houses…
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As a young adult, my grandmother told me horror stories about what life was like for black women before Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that made abortion legal in the U.S. If you had money, you had access to the services you needed. But for many of our grandmothers, aunts, and mothers, that was…
Read moreIn August 2015, Khloé Kardashian told Complex magazine that she’d lost 35 pounds. The physical transformation, she said later on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, was completely accidental: She started hitting the gym after splitting from Lamar Odom as a way to de-stress, and the weight started slowly coming off. When Kardashian…
Read moreMiss UK Zoiey Smale has no time for your unrealistic beauty standards, thank you very much. In June, Smale was crowned Miss UK in the United Kingdom round of the Miss United Continents pageant, qualifying her to compete in the international pageant in Ecuador. But then she heard from contest organizers that if she wanted…
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