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Opinion

Reading Picks for the Here and Now

As someone who struggles with depression and is undergoing major changes in my academic path and personal goals, COVID-19 has taken away any of the energy I had left and replaced it with questions and more stress. Especially in isolation, I have found myself with what often feels like an overwhelming amount of time to explore my own mind, usually while staring at the ceiling.

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Opinion

Grieving Someone I Never Met

In this Op-Ed, Leslie Guzmán explains the complicated grief of losing someone she never met.

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Fashion Opinion Shop

The Irony Behind High-Fashion Minimalism

In life, you can either be a minimalist or a maximalist.

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Culture Fashion Opinion

‘Black Brought in Cool’: A Conversation with Fashion for All Co-Founder Ali Richmond

Here’s my conversation with one-half of Fashion For All, Ali Richmond, on Blackness, fashion and America’s racial complex

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Fashion Opinion Style

The Devil Feigns Racial Accountability

The reasoning behind Wintour’s sudden sympathy for Black people is allegorical to what some claim is the bedrock of fashion: trend.

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Arts Fashion Opinion Style

The Chiffon Trenches: André Leon Talley’s Apology to Himself

Beyond my superficial connections to the former creative director of Vogue, my admiration for Talley comes from the respect I owe him for existing in an industry that has historically had little-to-no room for men who look like me. However, what is even more important to me is Talley’s permanence as a cautionary tale about the whims and woes of the fashion world for Black people and, more specifically Black men.

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Health & Beauty Opinion

You Snooze, You Win

  When was the last time you woke up feeling 100 percent well-rested?  We live in a culture where hustling is glorified. We honor people who work relentlessly to achieve success, no matter what the cost is. Far too often, the first thing we sacrifice when we are faced with a hectic schedule, especially as […]

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Health & Beauty Opinion

The Myth of the Cool Girl, Debunked

Be hot, brilliant and funny — just don’t make it look like you care.

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Arts Culture Opinion

Review: ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover

It appears on Barack Obama’s Instagram list of favorite books from the past year, and it landed in the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018. Tara Westover’s story of successful escape from ideological extremism has a unifying quality. In Idaho, one family embodied this anti-establishment, God-fearing mentality to an extreme. Tara […]