Puzzles, tie-dyeing, baking banana bread—if we’ve learned anything from social media, it’s that we’re picking up all sorts of new hobbies. We didn’t expect stick-and-poke tattoos to quickly top that list, but six weeks into quarantine, here we are. Tattooing with a machine requires expensive supplies, like cables and tubes you’d have some trouble sourcing…
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During a worldwide pandemic, the safest place to be is home. But for people enduring domestic violence, home is never safe. The coronavirus pandemic—and the stay-at-home orders, social distancing measures, and quarantining that have been instituted in an attempt to keep the disease at bay—have the unintended side effect of trapping domestic violence survivors with…
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To learn more about how the water crisis is impacting women in Peru, I traveled to Lima with Water.org and Stella Artois as part of their #PourItForward campaign. After visiting women in the suburbs, I learned that the water crisis doesn’t always look the way you might think. Imagine living in the suburbs of a…
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When many women get ready to go for a run, their prep looks something like this: put on favorite running shorts, lace up shoes, pick a playlist, grab a weapon, head out the door. You read that right. Headlines about women being attacked by men (or even animals) while out for jog are a steady…
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In the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that left 17 people dead, the Trump administration announced the creation of a federal commission to find “meaningful and actionable recommendations to keep students safe at school.” However, while giving testimony before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that although…
Read moreNews & Culture WomenBoycottTwitter Has Just Resulted in a Platform-Wide Safety Overhaul October 14, 2017 6:11 pm In the days that followed the New York Times‘ bombshell investigation into decades of alleged sexual harassment and sexual assault by Hollywood producer-mogul Harvey Weinstein, one voice kept chiming in on Twitter: Rose McGowan’s. Her tweets, which called…
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