Equality Issues Sarah nominates: Maria on Margot Robbie’s Vanity Fair profile Margot Robbie covered Vanity Fair last summer. And the male writer liked her so much he… lamented the lack of nice, agreeable women in America…? Sarah nominates Maria’s post on the article, calling out the writer for his gross sh-t. Basically for turning a profile about her work into By Maria • Mar 08, 2017 01:28 pm
Equality Issues Emily nominates: Hayley on mental health Emily is our Site Manager. You may not hear from her often, but you see her work every single day in the lineup of our posts, in the photos that are chosen, and in the organisation of the site. None of us could write without her contribution. To celebrate International By Hayley • Mar 08, 2017 12:04 pm
Equality Issues Lainey nominates: Kathleen on Lemonade When Lemonade came out, Kathleen wrote about her reaction to Beyoncé’s masterpiece through the lens of her own black identity, sharing with us her heartbreak in becoming part of a black “stereotype”, the broken black family, beautifully illuminating why Lemonade was so personal for so many black women. It By Kathleen • Mar 08, 2017 11:41 am
Equality Issues Duana nominates: Sarah on Blake Lively Sarah wrote about “Cherokee Princess” Blake Lively back in January and today, on International Women’s Day, as we show our work and celebrate the work of our colleagues, Duana remembers this post for the way Sarah shared her own experience as an indigenous woman getting to know her own By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 10:56 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, Today is International Women’s Day. And a “Day Without Women”. Many women around the world are striking, participating in marches, gathering together in support of gender equality, of each other. And wearing red to show solidarity. I am wearing red today. But, to be honest, I still, By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 10:07 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 7, 2017 Dear Gossips, The two major celebrity interviews/profiles I read yesterday: David Letterman in New York Magazine and Chrissy Teigen in Glamour. Letterman is, as we all know, a legend. He was irreverent when he was on late night and now that he’s retired, he really has no f-cks By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 09:22 am
Top Reads Emma Watson, Evolving Feminism, and “T-ts” So Emma Watson is an actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She defined feminism as “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” She’s currently in the middle of a massive promotional campaign for Beauty and the Beast. Hence her March cover of Vanity Fair. By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 03:57 pm
Business of Hollywood Ruth Negga in green pre-Oscar Here’s Ruth Negga last night being honoured with the Oscar Wilde Award hosted by JJ Abrams and his production company Bad Robot in Santa Monica last night. As you know, she’s also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Loving. So, again, I ask By Lainey • Feb 24, 2017 11:28 am
BFFs When Gwyneth speaks of the Blessing Gwyneth Paltrow was in New York for Fashion Week yesterday, seated front row at the La Perla show. Gwyneth and La Perla’s creative director, Julia Haart, are collaborators. La Perla is sold on goop. So she was there to fulfill her business obligations, and part of that involved talking By Lainey • Feb 10, 2017 10:39 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart is “so gay” When it was announced a few weeks ago that Kristen Stewart would be hosting Saturday Night Live, I wrote that I was excited, excited because I thought she was ready, ready to claim all that’s been said about her over the last decade, and laugh at her public persona, By Lainey • Feb 06, 2017 09:02 am
Books Intro for February 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Roxane Gay tweeted out a link to the full text of the keynote address she recently delivered at Winter Institute about diversity – or, rather, how conversations about diversity have instead become conversations about absolution and will be meaningless without active learning and work, which requires us to By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 10:00 am
Equality Issues Intro for January 31, 2017 Dear Gossips, On this week’s episode of our Show Your Work podcast, Duana and I spent some time talking about Taylor Swift and the criticism she received after the Women’s March, specifically whether or not Taylor Swift can continue to be apolitical in these times, especially when her By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 09:00 am
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Taylor “spineless feminism” and Constance constant callouts Last week, after the Women’s March, Taylor Swift tweeted this: So much love, pride, and respect for those who marched. I'm proud to be a woman today, and every day. #WomensMarch— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 21, 2017 And, well, they came for her. Just read the comments By Lainey • Jan 30, 2017 05:05 pm
Top Reads Stand with Jessica Williams, Sit DOWN Salma Hayek Most people know Jessica Williams as a former correspondent for The Daily Show. She also co-hosts a hysterical podcast called 2 Dope Queens. Jessica Williams is funny, brilliant, and on the verge of becoming known as more than just that girl who used to be on The Daily Show. Sundance By Kathleen • Jan 30, 2017 12:51 pm
Equality Issues Show Your Work: Paparazzi and Morning TV Chrissy Teigen was at the Women’s March in DC on Saturday as Duana and I were recording the latest episode of our Show Your Work podcast. She was making headlines the day before for tweeting about an encounter she’d had with a paparazzo who used a racist slur By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 04:35 pm
Music MILCK can’t keep quiet God, I love hearing stories from the Women’s March protests on Saturday. Marches? How do we properly grammaticize what happened across the globe this weekend? I’ve spent the last two days looking over my photos, your photos, which we LOVE that you are sending, those amazing aggregate photo By Duana • Jan 23, 2017 10:38 am
