The party-girl heiress who defined aughts celebrity culture never made the leap to an age of reality stardom where nothing is private, and everything is content.
RuPaul's recent anti-trans comments aren't only insulting to trans queens working today — they erase the history of boundary-pushing queer people of all genders who shaped this art form.
"There is such power in creating something designed to fit only you. It’s a quiet fuck-you to any clothing company or magazine or person that’s ever made you feel less." An excerpt from Alanna Okun's essay collection The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater.
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Ava DuVernay Shouldn’t Have To Prove Anything With "A Wrinkle In Time"
The real question for A Wrinkle in Time has never been what it means for the film industry if it’s a success, but what will happen if — or when — it’s not.
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Why Paris Hilton Disappeared
The party-girl heiress who defined aughts celebrity culture never made the leap to an age of reality stardom where nothing is private, and everything is content.
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RuPaul’s Version Of LGBT History Erases Decades Of Trans Drag Queens
RuPaul's recent anti-trans comments aren't only insulting to trans queens working today — they erase the history of boundary-pushing queer people of all genders who shaped this art form.
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Knitting My Own Clothes Let Me See My Body Clearly
"There is such power in creating something designed to fit only you. It’s a quiet fuck-you to any clothing company or magazine or person that’s ever made you feel less." An excerpt from Alanna Okun's essay collection The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater.
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Poetry: "Everything Is Restored" And "Death Of A Child"
Two powerful poems about loss.
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Jennifer Lawrence Is A Prisoner Of Her Cool Girl Image
This is the story of how Lawrence became the biggest female movie star in the world — but it’s also the story of how an image can become an albatross.
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The Real Threat To Trump Isn’t Russia, Racism, Or Incompetence. It’s Corruption.
Even insiders struggle to follow the plot of the Mueller investigation. But the politics of corruption are simple: Voters hate it.
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Is Hollywood Already Done Being Angry?
At the 90th Academy Awards, the film industry seemed anxious to put the #MeToo moment behind it. Are audiences ready to do the same?
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The Sexy Sadness Of Sufjan Stevens
Listening to Sufjan is a gentle reminder that some men are willing to be sad with you, instead of just being the reason you’re upset.
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What Does It Cost To Be Big On Instagram?
In an increasingly crowded field, it takes more than luck to build a career as an influencer. These aspiring style icons opened up about the hours and dollars they’ve spent to establish themselves, and whether it’s all been worth it.
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We Compared Several Years Of Oscars Best Picture Scripts To See If They Really Became More Diverse
BuzzFeed News analyzed the film scripts of all Best Picture nominees from 2017, 2015, and 1989 to find out just how diverse major speaking roles are.
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Superhero Movies Will Have To Work Harder After “Black Panther”
By making it clear that a massively successful superhero blockbuster can engage with complex political and ethical questions, Ryan Coogler’s film has raised the bar for everyone else in the cinematic universe.
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She “Provoked” Him: Columbia’s Old Policies Let A Professor Off The Hook For Serial Sexual Harassment
An Ivy League school found a professor responsible for sexually harassing his student, then kept him employed for two more decades. The school has changed its policies since then, but what happens to the still-employed professors who were let off the hook by old rules?
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Why Omarosa Really Won Big Brother
Though she didn't get the grand prize on Big Brother: Celebrity Edition, Omarosa exploited the show’s intimacy to show off her more sympathetic side.
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I Fell In Love With The First Girl I Dated After Coming Out
"I couldn’t believe that I’d had such a great first date (and second, and third...) with the first woman I’d gone out with." An excerpt from Katie Heaney's memoir Would You Rather.
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Three Big Superhero Movies, One Queer Tragedy Trope
In three of the last year's biggest superhero movies, queer-coded minor characters were either straightened out or killed off in strangely similar ways.
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How Taylor Kitsch Is Fixing His Broken Movie Star Image
For years, the Friday Night Lights star watched as publicists tried — and failed — to sell him as a classic, bland, movie star dreamboat. With a new Instagram account, he’s taken matters into his own hands.
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As A Black Woman, I'm Tired Of Having To Prove My Womanhood
"Ain't I a woman?" Some historical evidence suggests Sojourner Truth never asked her most famous question. But as a tall, dark-skinned black woman, it's a question I've grappled with all my life.
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A Woman Leaves A Simulated Martian Colony To Try For A Baby
A chef ditches a simulated Martian colony in Hawaii to try to conceive a child with her ex in this excerpt from Ramona Ausubel's short story collection Awayland.
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My Relationship With Food Is A Mess, And That’s Fine
Reading Ruby Tandoh’s new book Eat Up, I’ve been reminded that eating is a minefield for all of us at times — and our messiness is what makes us human.
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Natalie Portman’s New Sci-Fi Movie Is Going To Frustrate The Hell Out Of People
But that doesn't mean Annihilation isn’t worth watching. Some spoilers (sort of — it's not a very spoilable movie) below.
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Asian-American Women In Hollywood Say It’s Twice As Hard For Them To Say #MeToo
Harvey Weinstein’s fall from power may have opened the floodgates in Hollywood, but Asian-American actors and producers say a lack of representation makes it harder for them to speak up.
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What Happens To A Family When Its Larger-Than-Life Patriarch Dies?
"If he was anything, Big Angel was the father and patriarch of the entire clan. And, by the way (bi de guey), the de La Cruz family has been around here since before your grandparents were even born." (An excerpt from Luís Alberto Urrea's novel The House of Broken Angels)
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This Is Why Michael B. Jordan Is So Hot
It's because maturity looks so good on him.
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How Pie Keeps Me Steady
I've loved baking pie since I was a kid. In recent years, while writing a book about schizophrenia, I began to think more about why.
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These Women Are The Only Reason Some People In Mexico City Get Any Water
In some places, taps have been dry for over a year. People bathe their children with bottled water. A group of women has taken over water distribution from the city authorities. The future feared by millions of people across the world has already arrived in Mexico City.
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How Do You Fix A Bullet-Shattered Heart?
In cities across the United States, surgeons and first responders are becoming experts in a kind of medicine typically learned in war zones.
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These Writers Are Launching A New Wave Of Native American Literature
With two highly anticipated books, Terese Marie Mailhot and Tommy Orange are part of a new generation of indigenous writers, trained in a program that rejects the standards of white academia.
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The Pro-Trump Media Has Met Its Match In The Parkland Students
The pro-Trump media chose a political enemy effectively born onto the internet and innately capable of waging an information war.
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