Before Black Panther celebrated the all-female freedom fighters of Wakanda, real-life black women formed their own type of special-forces unit in Alabama. When a whopping 98 percent of African American women voters united behind Doug Jones, they were able to elect him as the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate in more…
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Putting on fake eyelashes is not a quick-master thing. By maybe the eighth time you do it, it goes okay—but before that, it’s a steep learning curve full of sticky substances and becoming intimately familiar with the feeling of your eyelashes falling off. Hilarious, horrifying, it can go either way (depends how much glue is…
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Six women filed lawsuits against the University of Southern California on Monday, alleging that Dr. George Tyndall—who worked as the campus health clinic’s full-time gynecologist for almost 30 years—”sexually victimized them under the pretext of medical care” with USC’s knowledge, the LA Times reports. The Times first broke the story last week after a lengthy…
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If you were one of the 29 million people who watched the royal wedding this weekend, you saw Meghan Markle walk down the aisle looking incredibly beautiful. Gorgeous dress, check; the best wispy bun-tiara combo you’ve ever seen, check; and nail polish approved by the Queen, check. But one part of Meghan’s look in particular…
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You might be surprised that Book Club—a romantic comedy, in theaters now, about four women in their late 60s whose lives and sexualities are awakened after reading Fifty Shades of Grey*— was written by two people in their mid-30s. But it was a story co-writer and producer Erin Simms and director, producer, and co-writer Bill…
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There’s plenty of fanfare about the 2018 midterm elections being “The Year of the Woman,” and there are plenty of women running in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primaries. But as is often the case with politics, things aren’t that clear cut in the Keystone State — and the simple win-lose calculus of the vote may not be…
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