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The Journalists Who Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story Just Won the Pulitzer Prize


On Monday afternoon at New York’s Columbia University, The New York Times and The New Yorker were awarded a shared Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their journalistic work on stories that ended up prompting the public’s focus on what we’ve come to know as the #MeToo movement. It’s not often that you can pinpoint the beginning of such a momentous cultural shift, but in this case you can draw a pretty clear line to the stories by Meghan Twohey and Jodi Kantor at the Times and Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker, which made public the initial allegations of abuse and harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. (Of course, the original #MeToo hashtag was created by Tarana Burke, but it gained even more traction in the weeks and months after the Weinstein stories broke.)

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Journalist Ronan Farrow

In response to the award, Farrow wrote on Twitter, “Grateful for every brave source, for Jodi and Megan, and for a tireless @NewYorker team that stood by this story when others tried to bury it. This moment gets called a reckoning, but we just started telling the truth about old abuses of power. Thanks to all who keep doing so.”

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Journalists Meghan Twohey, left, and Jodi Kantor, far right, with actress and Weinstein accuser Ashley Judd

Asia Argento, one of the women who first spoke to Farrow, congratulated him on the win and thanked him for telling women’s stories.

Mira Sorvino, another of Farrow’s sources, tweeted: “The hugest congratulations to @jodikantor @mega2e & an especially warm hug to my friend and fearless truth teller @RonanFarrow you all created a wave of change that I am so grateful to be part of! With your conscientious journalism you literally changed the world! #MeToo”

In the wake of the Weinstein allegations, women began sharing their own stories of sexual harassment online. Soon many more powerful men—from Matt Lauer and James Franco to Al Franken and Charlie Rose in Hollywood, media, business, and politics were facing accusations of their own. A true reckoning had begun and frankly shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. A number of powerful women in Hollywood launched Time’s Up, which includes a legal defense fund for women of any industry who would otherwise not be able to afford counsel to fight workplace harassment.

It’s pretty hard to imagine that any of those events happen in such quick succession without the work of Kantor, Twohey, and Farrow—and the brave women who went public with their stories. Needless to say, a Pulitzer Prize seems an incredibly appropriate thank-you.





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Meghan Markle Won the Queen Over With This Novelty Christmas Gift


Figuring out what to gift your in-laws for the holidays is no easy feat—so imagine how hard it is when those in-laws are British royalty. What do you give the woman who literally has access to the crown jewels? Meghan Markle, however, seems to know just the thing: When she joined her fiancé Prince Harry for their very first Christmas together as an engaged couple this past December, the actress scored major points with the Queen thanks to a hilariously offbeat novelty gift she brought along with her.

According to The Daily Star Online, it’s tradition within the royal family to partake in a silly, tongue-in-cheek gift exchange on Christmas Eve. So, sticking with royal holiday protocol, Markle decided to present the Queen with—drumroll, please—a singing toy hamster.

Yes, you read that correctly: Meghan Markle gave her future grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, a singing toy hamster.

While a seemingly unorthodox gift, the toy was, according to The Daily Mail, an absolute hit—particularly with the family’s matriarch, who supposedly began laughing as soon as she opened it. The fun didn’t end there, either: The Queen’s corgis tried to take the gift from her lap, so she quipped, “They can keep my dogs company!” Markle also reportedly gave the Duke of Cambridge a “Tam O Shanter hat, complete with fake ginger hair attached.” (If only my family parties could be this entertaining.)

In a recent interview with BBC Radio 4, for which Prince Harry has recently been serving as guest editor, the fifth in line for the throne gushed over how well the pair’s first Christmas together with his family went. “Oh, it was fantastic,” Harry explained. “[Meghan] really enjoyed it. The family loved having her there.”

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Democrat Doug Moore Won Alabama and Twitter Is Thanking the Real Heroes—Black Women


I don’t think I ever could have guessed I’d be so deeply invested in an Alabama special election, but this is 2017. So last night I settled in to watch the results in the race for Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore who has battled an onslaught of allegations of sexual misconduct with underage girls. When the allegations first emerged, many Republicans distanced themselves from Moore, but in recent weeks he regained the support of the RNC and President Donald Trump.

Polls were all over the place leading up to Tuesday, and many had resigned themselves to the fact that an alleged child molester was going to become a United States Senator. Then something happened—that New York Times needle that measures likelihood of winning (and is the most anxiety-inducing thing I’ve ever seen on the internet) started to shift toward Jones, with the major urban areas of Alabama (typically Democratic strongholds) yet to report.

The major news outlets started calling the election for Jones a little before 10:30 PM and while Moore is spouting off about a recount, the numbers don’t look to be in his favor.

In his victory speech, Jones made sure to thank the African-American community and he was so very right to do so, because they won him the election. According to Washington Post exit polling, 96% of African Americans supported Jones. By comparison, only 30% of white voters were Jones voters. Very quickly this graphic from the Post started making its way around social media.

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As you can see, white women voted at an alarming rate for a alleged child molester, which is even more mind-boggling than the already hard-to-explain 53% who cast their ballots for Donald Trump, in spite of his misogynistic speech and sexual harassment allegations. It was the black community, especially women, who turned out—and turned this election. Many pundits will see this as a major turning point in the rejection of Trumpism heading into the 2018 midterms and all credit should go where it’s due.

Twitter totally agreed.

White women, rightfully, did not fare so well:

Crucial lessons can be learned from Alabama as we head into 2018, so let’s please never forget how this election was won. And to my fellow white women: Please get it together. This is embarrassing.





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How Women Won the 2017 Emmy Awards


The 2017 Emmy Awards was an amazing night for women—both in front of and behind the camera. Not only were a slew of female-fronted and created TV shows nominated, they actually won. Several times over. Hulu’s searing drama series The Handmaid’s Tale and HBO’s Big Little Lies especially emerged as the powerhouses of the evening, each taking home eight awards.

But it’s not just the amount of awards won that made tonight’s Emmys so special. The show broke some major new ground, too. Julia Louis-Dreyfus made Emmys history by becoming the first performer to win six Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series awards for the same character (Selina Meyer in Veep). Lena Waithe, who plays a queer woman of color on Master of None, is now the first Black woman in history to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Also incredible: Reed Morano is the first woman in 22 years to win for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for The Handmaid’s Tale.

Tonight was also trailblazing for the types of female-fronted content honored. Every series responsible for tonight’s resurgence of girl power—from Handmaid‘s to Big Little Lies to Veep—features nuanced characters and narratives about women’s experiences that haven’t been fully explored. Domestic abuse, sexism in Hollywood, the patriarchy, misogyny—all of these very real issues received proper representation. We’re finally seeing women on TV with full complexity and humanity.

It’s a welcome change from the two-dimensional wives and girlfriends of TV past. As the world progresses, Hollywood is finally starting to realize women and men want to watch stories about real people—their struggles, their triumphs, their fears. For female-fronted shows, the best way to do this is by putting women at the helm of projects. As Reese Witherspoon said during her acceptance speech for Outstanding Limited Series (Big Little Lies), it’s time to let women be the heroes of their own stories.

Tonight’s sweep should also open up Hollywood’s eyes to how lucrative female-oriented TV shows and films can be. The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies were two of the most-talked about new shows this year. This buzz turned into viewers, which has now turned into multiple Emmy wins. And money! If Hollywood doesn’t take this as a sign that women’s entertainment is mainstream—and not niche—then there’s a major problem.

The Handmaid’s Tale is coming back for a second season, and there’s talk of a Big Little Lies season two (fingers crossed), but hopefully these aren’t the only female-fronted shows we’re talking about next year. There are so many more stories to explore, and tonight’s Emmys prove people very much want to come along for those rides. Cheers to that.

For more of our 2017 Emmy Awards coverage, click here.

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Sloane Stephens Just Won the U.S. Open in an Incredible Comeback


Just a few days after the U.S. Open’s all-American semifinals—no, really, all four women who made the cut were American—Sloane Stephens has won the championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens. For Stephens, the victory was undoubtedly an incredible comeback: she was ranked at 957th in women’s tennis just last month, according to the New York Times, and she only returned to the game in July after foot surgery.

On Thursday, the unseeded Stephens beat Venus Williams in the semifinals to advance to the final matches. On Saturday, she won against No. 15-seeded Madison Keys 6-3 and 6-0 in the finals to take the title. (Keys beat CoCo Vandeweghe in her own semi-final round.)

Stephens and Keys are close pals: they have a long history together and support each other like crazy, which makes this win even more sweet. According to the Times, they played tennis together as juniors before going on to compete on Fed Cup and Olympic teams.

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They also joked around during the trophy ceremony: Keys good-naturedly pretended to take Stephens’ $3.7-million check for herself.

Both athletes brought their own weaknesses and strengths to the match. Stephens, who draws on her quickness and punch in tennis, has been recovering from that foot surgery. Keys, who the Times calls “arguably the most powerful player in women’s tennis,” had two operations on her left wrist in the past 10 months.

“If there’s someone I had to lose to today, I’m glad it’s her,” Keys said, according to the Guardian. “If you told me two months ago I’d be holding a finalist trophy at the US Open, I’d be really happy and proud of myself.”

Prior to this year, Venus’s sister Serena Williams, one of the greatest athletes of our time, had been the only American woman to make it to the tournament’s finals in the last decade. She, of course, is currently on maternity leave with her new baby girl.

Stephens is just 24, which hopefully means she has a long career ahead of her: Venus is 37, and Serena is 35, and those two ladies are still killing it.

“I should just retire now,” Stephens said at the trophy ceremony, according to the Times. “I told Maddy, I’m never going to be able to top this. I mean talk about a comeback.”

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