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Colette Fountain

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The 'Barbie' movie could boost Mattel's stock prices and increase the price of old dolls in your ...

The 'Barbie' movie could boost Mattel's stock prices and increase the price of old dolls in your ...

Business Insider — Get ready for a new side hustle: The new "Barbie" movie hits cinemas next week and could have a material impact on the price of Mattel stocks and old Barbies in your closet.
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Keyboard jackets and garden ornament bags: Welcome to the new maximalism movement | CNN

Keyboard jackets and garden ornament bags: Welcome to the new maximalism movement | CNN

CNN Style — Maximalist fashion is staging a loud return. Popularized on social media, the style is more extreme and theatrical than ever - and is bringing the look to a whole new demographic.
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Matt Rife Wants Men to Like Him-So He Punches Down at Women

Matt Rife Wants Men to Like Him-So He Punches Down at Women

The Daily Beast — The comedian best known for being a hunk says he doesn't want to "pander" to female fans. So he opened his new Netflix special with a domestic violence joke.
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The invisible victims of true crime content

The invisible victims of true crime content

The Daily Dot — Survivors, activists, and even perpetrators of crime are asking for more thoughtful dialogue in the market of true crime content.
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'The Sex Lives Of College Girls' Captures The Difficulty Of Being A Working Class Student

'The Sex Lives Of College Girls' Captures The Difficulty Of Being A Working Class Student

Refinery29 UK — Classism pervades almost all aspects of college life, becoming inescapable. Even by the final episode, Leighton remains ignorant about Kimberly’s job, mistaking her for a janitor, while a Sips customer throws trash on the floor to degrade the students working there. The wealth gap on college campuses is vast and classism underpins almost every element of social life. Wealthier students generally lack understanding of the financial strain that working class students are under. They remain ignorant at best and openly classist at worst.
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Mommy Issues, Greta Gerwig and Defining Ourselves Through Family - Polyester

Mommy Issues, Greta Gerwig and Defining Ourselves Through Family - Polyester

Polyester Zine — 'Mommy issues' rose to prominence in the cinematic works of Greta Gerwig. While women in the real world are repeatedly reduced to baby-makers, for the first time in the mainstream, popular media explores what it means to be a mother and be a daughter.
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After the Mobs: Violence and Deradicalisation in the UK

After the Mobs: Violence and Deradicalisation in the UK

greeneuropeanjournal.eu — Deradicalisation requires systemic change, along preventative measures and the first-hand experience of former extremists.
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Inside the anti-feminist world of Honey Badgers, where women put men's rights before their own

Inside the anti-feminist world of Honey Badgers, where women put men's rights before their own

screenshot-media.com — 'Behind every successful man, there is a woman', goes the common lore. Now, a faction of the internet is opposing their own rights to manifest themselves into the backbone of men's rights activism. Dubbed 'Honey Badgers', these women campaign tirelessly across a range of issues, including men's mental health , custody laws and domestic violence perpetrated against men -all with an underlying hatred of feminism.
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TikTokers Must Take a Stand on Gaza or Face the 'Digitine'

TikTokers Must Take a Stand on Gaza or Face the 'Digitine'

The Daily Beast — Does every random influencer who declines to speak out politically really deserve to be "digitally guillotined?"
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Take it from a barista - your behaviour in coffee shops is more revealing than you realise

Take it from a barista - your behaviour in coffee shops is more revealing than you realise

The i Paper — Hospitality is a two-way street. It's in customers' best interests to be nice
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Colette Revolutionized French Literature With Her Depictions of Female Desire

Colette Revolutionized French Literature With Her Depictions of Female Desire

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Jimmy Carr Really Needs You to Know How 'Edgy' He Is

Jimmy Carr Really Needs You to Know How 'Edgy' He Is

The Daily Beast — In his latest Netflix special, the British comic goes out of his way to warn viewers that he might get "canceled." It's exhausting.
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ASMR content saw huge growth on YouTube, but now creators are flocking to TikTok instead

ASMR content saw huge growth on YouTube, but now creators are flocking to TikTok instead

INSIDER — On TikTok, videos that have been tagged as " ASMR" by their creators have been viewed over 370 billion times. Popular videos include a one-minute series of short clips of a creator making pasta carbonara entirely on an outdoor fire (28 million views), 14 seconds of another creator applying blue skincare products (39 million views), and a compilation clip showing unspecified "chemicals" being dumped into a pool (13 million views).
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Vanderpump Rules, Selling Sunset and the Complexities of the Reality TV Woman - Polyester

Vanderpump Rules, Selling Sunset and the Complexities of the Reality TV Woman - Polyester

Polyester Zine — Vanderpump Rules features characters that viewers expect from reality TV. We have Scheana, the new girl with a "salacious past" who rivals Stassi, the "mean girl" accompanied by her minions Katie and Kristen. Lisa Vanderpump is tasked with maintaining order.
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The Return To Clubbing Has Thrown My Student Love Life Into Disarray

The Return To Clubbing Has Thrown My Student Love Life Into Disarray

Refinery29 UK — People roamed the club in same-sex friendship packs, hunting out similarly-sized groups of the opposite sex. It felt like a scene from David Attenborough's Planet Earth. A year without hookups had clearly created a lot of sexual frustration and clubbing, it seems, was the perfect way to vent.
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Charity calls for decriminalisation to tackle opioid crisis

Charity calls for decriminalisation to tackle opioid crisis

SWLondoner — For anyone concerned with social welfare, the opioid crisis has produced some of the most worrying statistics of the last decade.
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How TikTok has transformed the London food scene

How TikTok has transformed the London food scene

SWLondoner — In recent years, one of TikTok's biggest trends has been food blogging, whether that be with viral recipes like Emily Mariko's salmon rice, or with the more traditional review-style content which is dominating the London influencer scene. Influencers in this category regularly amass thousands of views, with the hashtags #londonfood and #londonfoodie having 860.2 million and 369 million views respectively.
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Demetri Martin Made a Netflix Hour That's Actually 'Special'

Demetri Martin Made a Netflix Hour That's Actually 'Special'

The Daily Beast — Few comedians have fully embraced the streaming medium quite like Demetri Martin.
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Meet the acne-positive influencers redefining TikTok beauty standards - Mancunian Matters

Meet the acne-positive influencers redefining TikTok beauty standards - Mancunian Matters

Mancunian Matters — According to NHS statistics, 95% of 11-30 year olds suffer from acne: whether it be painful cysts or the occasional spot, for many people it can feel inescapable. I spoke to two acne-positive influencers to understand the impact of social media on acne-sufferers and the wider issues within the beauty community.
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The Thing About Ugly Duckling Syndrome

The Thing About Ugly Duckling Syndrome

Diem — In this week's essay, we're exploring Ugly Duckling Syndrome and a reflection on self-worth.
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Tim Burton: Revolutionizing Children's Horror

Tim Burton: Revolutionizing Children's Horror

Film Daze — For anyone who has an interest in horror films, Tim Burton's cinematic universe is a Halloween staple. Where most horror films are reliant on shock value with gore and intense depictions of violence, Burton's bright, colorful films seem harmless in comparison, making them perfect family films for the festive period.
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Walking group tackles men's mental health in emergency services

Walking group tackles men's mental health in emergency services

South East Londoner — A men's support group started weekly walks to combat high rates of mental health issues within the emergency services. WalkandTalk999 was thought-up by six members who work in the fire service and had observed the mental health struggles of staff.
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Is Real Cinema Dying?

Is Real Cinema Dying?

Notion — As the battle between critical acclaim and widespread popularity continues to rage for filmmakers, maybe at the end of the day we all just want escapism? Every year during awards season there's the same backlash, as people argue that the nominees don't accurately reflect the popular films of the year.
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A Brief History of Law Roach

A Brief History of Law Roach

Notion — In the week that stylist and image architect Law Roach announced his retirement, we catch up on his career so far, guessing what might perhaps be next. Celebrity stylist and self-proclaimed 'image architect' Law Roach announced his retirement to his 1.2million Instagram followers this week, on the 14th March.
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