SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 01: Suzan Mutesi is seen wearing Crocs shoes with Jibbitz charms at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2021 on June 1, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/WireImage) After depriving myself of any opportunity to spend money on things that weren’t absolutely unnecessary for about a […]
Researchers in the U.K. and at the University of Otago in New Zealand say they are fighting the “obesity epidemic” with a new, disturbing device that locks people’s jaws shut, forcing them to consume only a liquid diet. The DentalSlim Diet Control device, as they call it, uses magnetic locking […]
LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 14: Lucy Hale is seen on August 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by BG015/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) I spent the majority of my childhood in bike shorts. As a former volleyball player and cheerleader, they were essential to my lifestyle from the time I was […]
As we look ahead to lockdown restrictions lifting and getting back into our ‘normal’ routines, we’re bound to have questions. Among them: how the hell did we ever get out the door in the morning wearing actual clothes? Whether our AM hours consist of getting to the office, attending uni […]
“Y’all wanna hear a story about how me and this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” The now-famous opening refrain from A’Ziah-Monae King’s Internet-breaking, viral, addictive Twitter thread isn’t just a snappy story starter that makes you lean into your phone and think More, […]
Processed with VSCO with e6 preset *Editor’s note: This piece contains incidents of rape and sexual assault. Please read with care. My lifelong experience in the music and entertainment industries has been one of betrayal and abuse. It began just weeks before my fifteenth birthday in 1975. I loved Minnie […]
Recently, when I opened my copy of Kate Zambreno’s 2012 book of criticism Heroines, a feminist rewriting of modernist literary history, I found in its pages a list of symptoms that I had written down in the same kind of black felt-tip pen I still use. I immediately recognised most […]
With lockdown restrictions slowly lifting across the U.K., timing couldn’t be more perfect as we dive into a severely missed summer of Pride: glitter, iconic anthems, reuniting with old friends and boldly celebrating queerness as we should, loud and proud. Pride is integral to the LGBTQIA+ community when queerness is […]
Last night, after what can only be described as “some” anticipation, Love Island returned to our screens in all of its bronzed glory. Certain aspects felt new: Iain Stirling cracking COVID gags, the house’s makeover (although it literally looks the same) and new Islander Sharon’s philosophy that all men who […]
Serena Willams became the latest athlete to announce that she wouldn’t be competing at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Sunday night. The night before the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, which began on Monday, Williams sat down with reporters and explained: “I’m actually not on the Olympic list,” she said […]
