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Twitter Is Not Pleased About This LA Times Magazine Cover


2017 has been a year filled with tough, complicated conversations about everything from sexual harassment, religious freedom to class issues and diversity. Some people’s eyes have been opened to systemic problems in American society, while others continue to refuse to see what segments of our population face on a daily basis.

For all the ‘wokeness’—both real and performative—that permeated the culture, sometimes all it takes is one simple image to remind us how much work still needs to be done. The most recent example is the cover of the Los Angeles Times’ Envelope—a magazine dedicated to awards season. The image features actresses Margot Robbie, Diane Kruger, Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Kate Winslet and Jessica Chastain with the cover line, “Actresses call for a change in the way many stories are told.” While I’m guessing the intent was to celebrate the female point-of-view in Hollywood, it seems to be pointing to a particular type of women’s stories—the ones portrayed by white women, and generally blonde ones at that.

It’s utterly ridiculous to not include any women of color in this cover and conversation. And people on Twitter are rightfully angry.

Each of these points is incredibly valid. It’s unknown who exactly decided this was a good idea, but one might hazard a guess that there weren’t people of color at the table. Diversity in the stories being told by Hollywood is incredibly important and women absolutely need to be in more positions of power to make that happen. But that can’t just mean white women and their stories.

None of the actresses have commented yet, but Jessica Chastain has been quite vocal lately about inclusion and other feminist issues so perhaps she’ll share some thoughts.

In the meantime, let’s do better in 2018, everybody.





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Taylor Swift Hilariously Makes Fun of Herself on These New 'Reputation' Magazine Covers


The theme of Taylor Swift’s new album, Reputation, is not subtle. It’s all about firing back at the rumors, scandals, and so-called “feuds” that plagued her for the past two years. A large portion of that is directed toward supermarket tabloids and gossip blogs, which routinely write untrue—and sometimes inflammatory—stories about Swift and her relationships. Swift’s covered this topic before—”Blank Space,” anyone?—but never this intensely…or this much. It’s a charged album, to put it gently.

And the materials she’s releasing with the album are equally as charged, albeit a little more tongue-in-cheek. Swift created two magazines that fans can snag exclusively at Target (when they buy Reputation on Friday) that seemingly mock the tabloids she confronts on her album. Each glossy features Swift’s face on the front, along with sensational, intentionally hyperbolic lines about her life that could easily be on the cover of any gossip magazine. “Taylor shocker! Taylor tells all her in shocking intro,” reads one line. “Handwritten lyrics reveal the truth,” reads another.

The intent here is clear: Swift’s trying to illustrate how ridiculous these articles can sometimes come across. And she’s trolling herself (and her cats), which is pretty hilarious. Of course, several pop stars have done this before (Britney Spears’ song “Piece of Me” is essentially a middle finger to Us Weekly), but Swift took things to another level by literally creating publications. It’s petty in the most delicious way possible.

“Forgot to show the back of the Target magazines. On Friday, you can get your hands on this quality reading material,”Swift tweeted, along with photos of the magazine covers. Check it out for yourself, below:

Reputation is slated to drop this Friday, November 10.

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Sara Sampaio Says French Magazine Published Nude Photos Without Her Consent


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Portuguese model and Victoria’s Secret Angel Sara Sampaio is ready to name names when it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace.

In an impassioned multiphoto Instagram post, Sampaio recounted a recent experience she had while working on an assignment with the French men’s magazine Lui. As the magazine’s autumn cover star, she agreed to appear under the strict condition of not being photographed nude. “My agency and I insisted on having a clear agreement in place to protect myself in order to control the choice I made around not being shot nude,” she wrote. However, even with this clause seemingly being agreed to, Sampaio says she was allegedly “aggressively” pressured by the Lui staffers on set to pose nude anyway—and when nudity managed to get by in few photos, Sampaio says the magazine used those images in the final spread against her will.

“Throughout the shoot day, I needed to constantly defend myself and reiterate my boundaries with no nude images, making sure I covered myself as best as I could,” she continued. “While reviewing the final images taken, I noticed that there were accidental exposures with parts of my body that I didn’t want exposed. I spoke up and was assured that those images would not be used. The magazine lied and proceeded to publish a cover image of me with nudity, which was in clear violation of our agreement.”

This wasn’t the first violation Sampaio says she’s experienced. “On many occasions where the shoot was to not have nudity, I would arrive on set and the photographer or stylist would pressure, cajole, or demand that I pose nude because I had done it in the past,” she continued in her Instagram post. But just because she consented to posing nude in the past didn’t equate to her wanted to do it in the present. “Many times, I was shown nude images of myself as examples to coerce me into posing nude, and whenever I stood my ground and refused, I was criticized and judged as being difficult.”

As a result of her mistreatment at Lui, Sampaio says that she, her agency, and her attorney are pursuing legal action against the magazine. “What they did to me is unacceptable,” she concludes. “I feel violated, mistreated, and disrespected as a professional and as a woman.”

Sampaio’s Instagram comes after the #MeToo social media movement, in which women (and occasionally men) are detailing how they’ve been sexually harassed and assaulted throughout their lives. It was birthed last week from news that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has allegedly mistreated and harassed women for decades.



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Emily Ratajkowski Calls Out a French Magazine for Photoshopping Her Lips and Breasts


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Most major players in the fashion and beauty industries have been extremely slow to follow in the footsteps of companies like Aerie and Dove in pledging not to airbrush away their models’ so-called “flaws.” Emily Ratajkowski, however, is here to hurry them up.

On Friday, the model and actress called out Madame Figaro, a French magazine, for photoshopping a picture of her that was used on the cover of this week’s issue. Ratajkowski posted both the original, non-retouched photo and the final cover image to Instagram in a side-by-side comparison showing that her breasts were lifted and lips narrowed for the cover photo. In the accompanying caption, EmRata described her frustration with the magazine—and the industry as a whole—for sending the message that her natural beauty is, apparently, not beautiful enough.

“Everyone is uniquely beautiful in their own ways. We all have insecurities about the things that make us different from a typical ideal of beauty. I, like so many of us, try every day to work past those insecurities,” she wrote. “I was extremely disappointed to see my lips and breasts altered in photoshop on this cover. I hope the fashion industry will finally learn to stop trying to stifle the things that make us unique and instead begin to celebrate individuality.”

This is far from the first time the 26-year-old has spoken out against societal standards of beauty. Most recently, in her cover story for the August 2017 issue of Allure, she criticized the societal instinct to censor women’s bodies. “It really bothers me that people are so offended by breasts,” she said. “That’s when I realized how fucked our culture is. When we see breasts, we don’t think of beauty and femininity. We think of vulgar, oversexualized images.” On the topic of allowing women to embrace their own bodies, she added, “To me, any expression that is empowered and is your own as a woman is feminist. If a woman decides to dress sexy, it doesn’t mean she’s not a feminist. [We] should be doing things for ourselves. If that is the woman’s choice, and it makes her feel good, then that’s great. Good for her.”



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Kim Kardashian West Channels Jackie O in a Photoshoot for Interview Magazine


Only Kim Kardashian West could turn Camelot into Kamelot.

For the cover of the September 2017 issue of Interview magazine, the star posed with her daughter North West in a very Jackie Kennedy Onassis–inspired photoshoot that was captioned with, “America’s First New Lady.” (So does this mean Kanye West’s presidential run could become a reality?)

And never one to not be extra, Kardashian West goes for the full Jackie O in the photos, wearing white elbow-length gloves and a big bouffant hairdo that feel straight out of the Cold War. As the magazine notes, the 36-year-old is purposely channeling the former first lady because she’s “another mother whose every move captivated the American imagination.”

In the accompanying interview, which is a conversation between Kardashian West and writer and activist Janet Mock, the beauty mogul talked about how “conscious” she is of raising mixed-race children with husband Kanye West. “Kanye always has his family around and people who look like my daughter—that’s important to me. She’s obsessed with her curly hair, and if she finds someone who has the same hair, she runs to them and is like, ‘You have curly hair like me?’ And we get to talk about it. We also talk about it with my niece Penelope, because she and North look really different, but they’re best friends and they’re together all the time.” She added, “We want to raise our kids to be really aware. I think that’s all you can do. The more you talk about things and keep them out in the open, the more they won’t be taboo. Kids are already so open. They say anything. So if you educate them, they feel like they have this knowledge and then they feel empowered.”

PHOTO: Steven Klein

Naturally, the presidential photoshoot has already sparked a variety of reactions on Twitter, with many users sharing their disdain over the magazine’s decision to compare Kim K and Jackie O. “Jackie O turning over in her damn grave right now,” one person tweeted at Kardashian West. However, others have only praise for the pictures’ glamorous look and creative styling. “Nothing but respect for MY First Lady,” a Twitter user wrote, while another mused, “It’s strange for me to say that I wish this were real. Kanye running the country would make me feel a lot safer.”

The issue also features a series of short interviews with North, conducted by fellow famous kids like Kaia Gerber, Millie Bobby Brown, and North’s cousin-slash-bestie Penelope Disick, in which the 4-year-old reveals such hard-hitting truths as her favorite kind of pizza (“Just cheese! Cheese, cheese—everywhere cheese.”), her favorite Disney princess (Jasmine), and what she would do at a baking party with Penelope (“We can make rainbow princess cake!”). She also answers several questions from the writings of Andy Warhol, sharing that she can do her own nails “very well,” her favorite color is rainbow and her purse is full of toys and “sometimes I put some makeup in there when I go to church.”

See photos from the shoot, below:

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