“I’ve been going to Fashion Week for years, and street photographers are still a big problem. They literally won’t take a picture [of plus women]. I know I look cute, but it makes you feel like you don’t belong there, or it was a mistake that you were invited to this place. Up until three…
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One of my first jobs out of college had me assisting a publisher who frequently shared sensitive company information with me as I drafted memos and reports, which meant we often had to close the door to his office. He’d dictate what he needed to, and we’d move on with our day. Occasionally we’d do…
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A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend of mine about a new wrinkle in her work schedule. Normally, she worked from home on Tuesdays and was able to crank through most of her emails while her two young children took their afternoon naps. Recently, though, the older child had dropped her nap…
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Selena Gomez has plenty of experience with social media, but there’s one aspect of the more visually driven platforms that she doesn’t love: namely, filters. Flicking through the options on Snapchat, she’d noticed that there was a pattern to all of the “pretty” filters (think the ones that make you look like a flower-crowned queen…
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My worst fitting-room experiences have always involved denim. It’s not because of a lack of options: I wear a size that’s abundantly stocked in most stores and online. (Normally, it’s a size 10.) Rather, it’s because of my body shape. Not to fall into the old-school trope of comparing myself to a fruit, but I…
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If you didn’t watch the Oscars last night and only tuned into the top headlines, you’d think Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper made out on top of a piano while his girlfriend and the mother of his child, Irina Shayk, looked on—and then everyone went home and called it a night. Literally as I write…
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