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A Year After Trademarking the Word ‘Kimono,’ Backlash Convinces Kim Kardashian to Do the Right Thing
Well, wonders never cease…and it only took a year for you to grow some damned common sense, Kim. In May 2018, TMZ reported that Kim Kardashian West had filed papers to trademark a new line of shapewear and intimates under the questionable name “Kimono Intimates.” Yes, we obviously get that Kim considered “Kimono” a cutesy…
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Flowers for Zoë: Stars Come Out to Watch Zoë Kravitz Marry Karl Glusman in France
Her father once implored us to “Let Love Rule,” and now, Zoë Kravitz, the genetically-blessed daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, has done just that, marrying longtime boyfriend Karl Glusman in a star-studded wedding at her father’s home in Paris, France, on Saturday. (Bonus points if you also get the musical reference in our…
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So Much to Be Proud About: New York City Hosted a Star-Studded Celebration for World Pride 2019
New York City knows how to throw a party—and for World Pride Weekend, the city gave a rainbow-fueled celebration for its LGBTQ community, who were out in force to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, widely considered the start of the modern queer liberation movement. Starting with the anniversary of the riots on…
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Lizzo Is Looking ‘Good as Hell’ in Her 1st Cosmetics Campaign for Urban Decay
Fun fact: It took Naomi “Living Legged Legend” Campbell over three decades of modeling to score her first cosmetics campaign—which makes the fact that Lizzo just scored hers less than three years after her breakthrough in the music industry pretty, well…MAJOR. Lizzo is looking “Good as Hell” in a prismatic eye look in Urban Decay’s…
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California Is a Governor’s Signature Away From Prohibiting Employers From Discriminating Against Black Hair
On Thursday, California lawmakers passed a bill protecting black folks from hair discrimination, an important step in decriminalizing blackness. Huffington Post reports that the state assembly passed the CROWN Act, which prohibits both employers and schools from enforcing discriminatory policies that penalize black people for wearing their hair naturally. Specifically, those who wear ethnic hairstyles…
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It's All Love: Sorry, Met Gala, the Love Ball Is the Invite We Really Want to Score
The category is: LOVE. There’s camp, and then there’s camp, honey—and, as evidenced by this year’s Met Gala, not everyone gets it. But as Lena Waithe pointed out that night, the LGBTQ community has always gotten it—in fact, she maintains that black drag queens and the ballroom culture they and their brown counterparts birthed is…
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We Dream a World: Black & Queer in Milwaukee
On any given day, my partner, Lynnae* and I will be driving, engaged in our usual griping at the utterly reckless ways some Milwaukee drivers shit on safety laws while behind the wheel. It’s become a game of sorts; I’m usually the one who points out the utter disregard for red lights and how cars…
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Like a Mother: Poet Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Queer and Challenging Path to Parenthood in Motherstruck!
The first time I heard Staceyann Chin perform, it was (at the risk of dating myself) during the early aughts Broadway run of Def Poetry Jam, where the poet and activist joined a diverse crew of talents onstage at New York City’s Longacre Theatre for nearly 200 performances, before the show closed in 2003. Even…
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Reunited? Meghan Markle Expected to Attend Wimbledon to Support Serena Williams
What would we do without our besties? In my case, I’m not sure I would’ve gotten through the first half of the Democratic debates on Wednesday night without text-heckling half of the candidates with my BFF from our respective living rooms, but my criteria for eternal friendship is likely a mite lower than that of…
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Finally! According to the Obama Women, It Is Now Officially Sundress and Sneaker Season
All those weeks of feeling like it was taking forever to heat up finally make sense; we were waiting for our former forever first family to give us the go-ahead on summer! (I kid, I kid—or do I?) Thankfully, like a groundhog predicting the coming of spring, the first leaf to fall from a tree,…