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This Is What Happened To My Skin When I Cut Out Dairy

My name is Maria Del Russo, and I hold these truths to be self-evident: A cheese plate is a perfectly respectable meal. A pack of shredded cheese is a great snack. Nachos deserve their own food group....

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TLC's "Unpretty" Is A Feminist Anthem That Rings True Today

Ruminations on the pressure women face to stay thin, beautiful, and youthful have been a common thread in popular music for years, particularly because the pressure doesn’t seem to be going anywhere...

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This Long-Lost Study On Victorian Sex Teaches A Very Modern Lesson

What comes to mind when you picture Victorian-era sex? Corsets? Marriages of convenience and social bartering? Repression? Maybe, like, a lot of repression?Turns out, how we view that time in sexual...

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Check Out Everything That Happened At Yeezy Season 4

Photo: Via @kimkardashian. Before models even hit the open-air catwalk on Roosevelt Island on Wednesday afternoon, Kanye West's Yeezy Season 4 presentation had already lived up to the artist's...

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My Longing To Be A Mother, As A Trans Woman

Photo: Sally Anscombe/Getty Images. It’s taken me nearly every one of my fifty odd years to come to this point – where I’m going to express something that I’ve bottled up. A deep, dark secret, shaped...

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Gold Jewellery To Make Your Autumn Outfits Shine

Not since Del Boy has loads of gold felt this good. The key with gold is to embrace its naffness and go full pawn shop on yourself and layer, layer, layer a la model of the minute Adwoa Aboah....

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How I #MadeIt: Sharmadean Reid

Photographed by Jonny Cochrane & Morgane Lay.In its many manifestations WAH, founded by former stylist Sharmadean Reid, has always been about celebrating womanhood, bringing together focused female...

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Maternity Leave: What’s Not Working And How To Fix It

Having a baby can bring about its fair set of challenges, but one that expectant mothers should not have to face is the threat of encountering discrimination in the workplace.At the end of August,...

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In-flight Magazine Prints Shockingly Racist Guide To London

Photo: Maurice Rivera/EyeEm/Getty Images.An article in a Chinese airline's inflight magazine has been condemned as racist for its comments about ethnic minority areas of London.Air China faces backlash...

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How It Feels When Your Friends Have Babies

Photo: Pictures/REX/Shutterstock. For me, the internal conversation started around 25, when I felt a sudden pang of broodiness after seeing a few friends have accidental lovely babies. The pregnancies...

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How ClassPass Helped Me Recover From An Awful Breakup

It’s been 42 days since my long-term partner and I ended our relationship. In the present moment, a salty puddle is forming on the floor beneath my eyes. The pain is incredible; I can feel it in every...

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What Infertility Really Feels Like

Every infertile woman carries with her a list of questions, comments, and suggestions she steels herself against: When are you finally having kids? Oh, you can’t? Maybe you should gain weight, lose...

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MAC Just Dropped 24 New Lipsticks Unlike Anything You've Seen Before

It’s the excuse we hear all the time for why makeup brands seem to dupe each other left and right: There are only so many colours, correct? Not if you’re Maureen Seaberg, a writer on sensory experience...

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10 Portraits Of Dads & Daughters That Show Real Family Life In Iran

Photographed by Nafise Motlaq.Nafise Motlaq was living in Malaysia when she got the news that her father was ill.“I heard from my family that my father is not in a good health situation,” she said via...

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What Every Woman Needs To Know About The iPhone’s New Wireless Earbuds

Of all the things Apple announced yesterday, its wireless AirPods are quickly becoming the most talked about. AirPods are wireless headphones that turn on or off when they sense they’re actually in...

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Lady Gaga Dazzles With "Perfect Illusion," First New Single In Years

Little Monsters: Your wait is over. Lady Gaga has dropped "Perfect Illusion," her first new music since 2014's Cheek to Cheek, a duet album with Tony Bennett. It's her first solo effort since 2013's...

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7 People Share How Suicide Touched Their Lives

This article was first published on May 20, 2016A few years ago, I called my dad for one of our weekly chats — but he wasn’t happy to hear from me. “Today, something happened that I never, ever wanted...

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Rave Mums & Dads - Is It Ever OK For Parents To Take Drugs Recreationally?

Illustrated by Assa Ariyoshi.Some people have kids, move to the country and appreciate the fresh air. Others keep one foot in the rave, going on the occasional night out and continuing to use the same...

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Why I'm Unsure I'll Ever Want Children

As someone who doesn't have any, or know that many, I seem to talk about babies a lot. It used to be (OK, it still is) that I'd spend evenings nestled around a pub table like a camp fire with friends,...

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Don't Look At Fit Pregnancy Mums On Instagram & Other Lessons From The First...

It took my husband and I twelve months to fall pregnant. One chemical miscarriage and forty pregnancy tests later, we finally conceived on a drunken night in late April when baby making was far from...

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