Equality Issues Kathleen nominates: Beyoncé knew Kathleen is currently on holiday. This is what she was doing yesterday: Had an OK day. 📷 @jtghoward A post shared by Kathleen Newman-Bremang (@kathleennb) onMar 7, 2017 at 9:14pm PST Even though her wifi is sh-t though, and even though I have been leaving her alone, she just sent By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 05:10 pm
Equality Issues Sarah nominates: Joanna on Natalie Portman Joanna is our resident Natalie Portman fan/defender/explainer. Sarah nominates her post from last August about Natalie Portman’s experience as a director and the “language that women use to disguise their assertiveness”. Last night, Natalie told Charlie Rose that before she started directing A Tale of Love and By Joanna • Mar 08, 2017 04:25 pm
Equality Issues Maria nominates: Duana’s Ghostbusters crew In August 2015, almost a year before the all-female Ghostbusters was released, Duana wrote about an Instagram photo posted by Melissa McCarthy of the crew - all the women with their job titles specifically noted. Today Maria is nominating this post to revisit, on International Women’s Day, as we By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 04:07 pm
Sasha Lifestyle Hayley nominates: Sasha’s Lost and Found In Hayley’s words: I want to nominate Sasha and her post about her new venture Lost and Found Apothecary. Sasha took one of the most difficult times in her life and morphed it into something beautiful which should inspire all of us women to never give up, to take By Sasha • Mar 08, 2017 04:03 pm
Equality Issues Joanna nominates: Duana on Allison Williams In Joanna’s words: I nominate Duana’s The No-Podcast Would-Be Episode of Show Your Work. I’ve been an avid listener of the podcast since it launched (remember “Working Class”?), but aside from the Dwayne Johnson-Anna Kendrick-shut down Jimmy Fallon mega episode from November, my favourite edition has to By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 03:35 pm
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
