At the end of February, amid the ever-persisting Heated Rivalry craze, an article was published for New York Magazine called “The Great Fujoshi Awakening: Why Do So Many Women Love Men Who Love Men?” In the article, the author made very specific references to works of fanfiction online, going so far as to link one of the works within the article. There was immediate public outcry by fans on Twitter...

I’ve watched the trailer for Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister over 5 times now. It all started when my best friend sent me the trailer on Instagram and I was immediately intrigued. The idea of reworking Cinderella into a horror movie from the perspective of one of her stepsisters sounded like an excellent way of embracing the story’s grim (pun very much intended) roots.

Everything has become stan twitter, and stan twitter has become sports fandom. Here’s how it’s affecting awards season.

The RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 11 promo just dropped this past Wednesday, and it’s already shaping up to be a sickening season. We’re excited to see Mystique Summers, an OG queen who has left a permanent impression on the franchise, return for their first time in years. Veteran queens like Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Morgan McMichaels, A’keria C. Davenport, and Kennedy Davenport are coming back to All Stars with a vengeance and an opportunity to finally receive a crown.

Camaraderie has been an enduring element in female friendships throughout history. Whether in medieval convents or as newly working women in the past century, sisterhood and female solidarity have helped women fight against all kinds of bigotry, or at the very least, make persisting through it just a little more tolerable. Women have typically been underdeveloped, if at all developed, characters. For the longest time, entertainment media in particular have represented the interactions between...

Trigger Warning: brief mentions of SkinnyTok, thinness, assault, restricting food, dieting, body image, and referenced articles mention eating disorders The standard of beauty is always changing. One minute, everyone wants to be thin, then they want a Brazilian butt lift. One minute it’s body positivity, the next it’s #SkinnyTok. From childhood, women are constantly made aware of their physical appearance. We’re told what food to eat or avoid so we don’t gain weight. We’re told to be pretty...

What goes up must come down, and for women in Hollywood, the turnaround is worse than the ruthless law of physics.

The word “ Superstar ” as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary is “a star (as in sports or the movies) who is considered extremely talented, has great public appeal, and can usually command a high salary”. I associate traits like talented, undefeated, and unique with Superstars . Who in the music industry do you consider a Superstar ? Think Beyonce and Micheal Jackson. I admire the growth of artists like these because of the inspiration they've given to the world. Music is a powerful...

There’s an evident tug of love and hate from both ends of the spectrum of belief. What lies within the grey area, however, is fashion.

Many people struggle to connect to religion because of the judgment that is intertwined in many religious structures.

At first, AI couldn’t generate images that were realistic enough to be taken seriously. Now it can make images and videos of people that look more real by the day.

Nina Lee, award-winning filmmaker and creator of The Girls Room and Sorry About That, recently posted a thread on X (formerly Twitter) where she revealed that the sale of two of her romance film projects depends on how well the new romantic comedy film You, Me & Tuscany does in theaters. She said in the thread, “A film that has nothing to do with me could quite literally change my life.”

Emily Brontë’s sole published work, Wuthering Heights, is not a beautiful story. It’s barely even a love story, much less “the greatest love story of all time” as the tagline for Emerald Fennell's upcoming adaptation goes. Brontë wrote this story to showcase the brutal ugliness of humanity by exploring the devastating fallout of generational abuse, racism, and classism.

To be fair, optimization under patriarchy is exhausting. Last October, Vogue put out its ever-relevant “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” article, which made the rounds on practically every media site that exists. CNN interviewed the author, The Guardian did a follow-up article, and every short-form and long-form content creator gave their two cents and then an extra penny. Most reactions correctly assessed the magnitude of how women’s dating history and romantic decisions impact their...

Have you ever heard of the pink tax? No, I’m not specifically talking about the color pink or your actual taxes, but an extra cost that’s often added to products and services marketed toward women. It’s basically gender-based pricing, where items marketed toward women are more expensive than the same or very similar items marketed toward men. This directly impacts women’s buying power, with studies showing personal care products can be roughly 13% more expensive than men’s, creating a...

When you hear the words intimacy and desire, what do you think of? In many cases, people tend to associate these words with sex: sexual desire, sexual intimacy. But what happens when we start to reshape the way we think about these words? Dating and relationships are complex. There's a wide range of emotions and feelings that occur, and as we’re evolving in the realm of dating, we more often than not end up viewing certain aspects of romantic relationships through a sexual, or what I will...

Dear Virgil Abloh, I wish this was a letter I could actually send you. Maybe it would end up somewhere between sketches, playlists, and the endless ideas you always seemed to have. But since it can’t, this is just my way of saying thank you. Not just for the clothes, and not even just for the moment you became the menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton. What I’m really thankful for is the way you helped people see culture differently. You showed the world that the things so many of us...

Black women matter. Black women in history have always been seen as “other,” or the other. She can’t be both a woman and Black. With that, she is placed at the bottom of the oppressed. As a woman, she’s expected to learn her home before her mind, find her husband before her heart, and have children—completely hindering her childhood to give new life what she couldn’t have. She does it all with what she has and what she works her ass for. All in silence. Determination. And audacity. Never did...

Christianity sits as America’s predominant religion. As much as I’d love to believe it to be purely out of discipleship, the truth is quite the opposite.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines atheism as “a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods”. And it is just that the lack of a belief, or in simpler terms, the lack of a religion.