This Sunday, the 75th Golden Globe Awards will take place in Los Angeles and this year’s leading narratives have one exceedingly timely theme: female renegades. Groundbreaking films and shows like SMILF, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and I, Tonya all secured nominations, sending a clear message: Stories about rebellious women aren’t just craved by viewers,…
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Writer and actor Lena Waithe believes in honest storytelling. (See her deeply personal coming out episode on Netflix’s Master of None—yeah, she won an Emmy for it). Now, with The Chi she’s turning the camera towards her hometown, Chicago. Back in 2015 I was seeing all these news reports and profiles coming out about the…
Read moreChrissy Teigen, model, mother, host, and cookbook author, is never one to mince words on Twitter, and she just used her platform to call out a tactic used by many celebrity gossip writers: taking quotes from unnamed sources. As in, “this thing happened to this celebrity, according to a friend of the celebrity.” Quote-retweeting an…
Read moreOne of the most powerful moments from Glamour‘s Women of the Year Awards undoubtedly came from Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times journalists who, six weeks ago, broke a story that can only be described as world-changing: The decades of sexual harassment and abuse by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Since, their story…
Read moreThe Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment and sexual assault scandal has taken down one of Hollywood’s most powerful power players and producers, and in the days that have followed the New York Times‘ bombshell report sharing women’s accounts of his misconduct, more women have stepped forward with their own accounts of business meetings or auditions that…
Read moreGoogle has had a lot going on lately, and some of its most high-profile news doesn’t look great for women—especially those of color. There’s the fallout of a former engineer’s 10-page anti-diversity manifesto, the threat of a class-action lawsuit by 60 women alleging workplace sexism, and a Department of Labor investigation alleging “extreme” pay discrimination…
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