ageism
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Chuck D Wants Everyone to Stop Dragging Madonna Because She’s Getting Older, But Is He Right?
We doubt the “Vogue’ singer needed the legendary emcee to come to her aid.
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Auntie Unfiltered: Ageism Is Bullshit
Happy birthday to me! It’s my 49th birthday today (I know, I know. Hold your applause.), and I couldn’t think of a better occasion to discuss the topic of ageism. Ageism is everywhere. We live in a culture that is obsessed with youth and looking young, as if the natural process of aging—a process that…
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'Having One Is Not Progress': Janet Mock on Netflix's Hollywood and Industry Gatekeepers Celebrating Diversity
Hollywood has the best publicist in the game. For years, it has taken on the identity of a city with “streets paved with gold,” when the actual streets are paved with the dust of unrealized dreams, unbridled tourism, and, you know, rampant poverty. I’ve always been obsessed with Hollywood. As a child, I routinely shined…
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Our Real President Wants Us to 'Drop the Ageism Shit'
Lizzo, also known as our bad bitch-in-chief, wants you to keep focused on the things that matter this (endless) election season, and according to her, age ain’t one of those things. In a series of now-deleted tweets from Saturday, the “Juice” singer (per the Huffington Post) wrote: “I hear a lot of about Bernie Sanders…
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After Sephora Announces Companywide Diversity Training, Customers Say Racial Profiling Isn't the Only Problem [Updated]
Sephora, you’re probably going to need more than a morning for this. After singer-songwriter (and former employee) SZA put America’s favorite beauty emporium on blast in early May following a racial profiling incident at its Calabasas location, we expected a requisite grand gesture was soon to follow. And as anticipated, Sephora is taking action. Last…
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When Should Rappers Hang Up the Microphone?
When I was perusing the list of new-release albums from this past Oct. 13, it dawned on me after some time that three of the artists—Wu-Tang, Camp Lo and Krayzie Bone (with his group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)—all released albums that I absolutely loved exactly 20 years ago. In 1997 I turned 16, obtained my driver’s license…
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No Woman Left Behind: Has the Plus-Size Industry Forgotten Its Roots?
“I think I’m literally the biggest, blackest model at IMG,” plus-size phenom Precious Lee says plainly, referring to the persistent lack of bodies and skin tones like hers at the world-renowned agency that represents her. In anticipation of another New York Fashion Week, Lee joined a bevy of models of varying races and sizes to…