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Why Mannequins Must Reflect Us
Triggering women’s insecurity by selling us unattainable beauty has been the golden rule for the fashion industry, but common sense begs the question: Wouldn’t sales naturally increase if consumers actually had models—both real-life models and mannequins—that looked like their own bodies? |
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 | | The Rise of Hipster Sexism by Meghan Murphy | Describing the hipster is something you aren’t supposed to do. The mere mention of the fact that there are hipsters outs you as not being one. | MORE > |
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Quebec Charter Targets Women
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To Boycott or Not to Boycott
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It’s hard being a smart, forward-thinking woman in politics these days. You’d think it would be otherwise now that Canada boasts—count ’em—six female premiers. But the narrative that has unfolded since out lesbian...
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Rules to LIve By
by Evelyn C. White
As a black girl growing up near Chicago during the 1960s, I thought it best to keep my crush on Suzanne Pleshette to myself. Then best known for her role as the schoolteacher Annie in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds (1963), the dark-...
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