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It’s the weeks after the 2024 election, and I’ve moved from shock and utter dismay to being shaken and worried. I was part of a book coaching cohort and was debating whether I should even write the book anymore. Why bother? I mean, there are so many bigger fish to fry right now. Why waste my time writing a book about learning how to use our voice when we are about to go through some shit, and we don’t even know yet how bad it’s going to get.

The iced coffee goes between the ring finger and the pinky. The phone sits flat against the palm. The keys dangle from the index finger, the sunglasses fold over the thumb, and the lip balm wedges in wherever it fits. No bag. No second hand. Just one woman holding an entire night out in one fist, without dropping a thing. That is the girl grip, and if you have been anywhere near TikTok or Instagram lately, you have seen it.

When researchers promised 2,689 men complete anonymity, 95.1 percent of them admitted to recently using at least one strategy to force or coerce a woman into sex they knew she did not want and to which she had not consented. In 65 percent of those occasions, the strategy worked. Those are the opening numbers in “Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat,” a new peer-reviewed study by researchers Lucia F. O’Sullivan and Scott T.

Image used with permission. By Carmen Aub. I remember an old home video shot on a camcorder. I’m about nine, missing a tooth, and dressed in pink. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I answered without hesitation: famous. Today, I think about my inner child—the one I cry with after a “NO” at an audition, and the one I celebrate with by dancing to the songs from “El Diario de Daniela”. With a career spanning nearly 17 years, much of my life has unfolded on set.

By Reyna Grande. Reyna is an award-winning Mexican-American author best known for her landmark memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home. This time, she turns her gaze inward to explore the scars left by migration and the ongoing work of stitching herself back together. MIGRANT HEART interrogates how living between two nations, two languages, and two identities has shaped Reyna as a woman, mother, and writer.

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A new report out of California is saying out loud what women of color in health care have been living for years: the state’s workforce shortage is not only about empty positions. It is also about who gets a real shot at training, credentials, and advancement.

If spring is supposed to be about softness, somebody forgot to tell the runways. This season, lips are doing the talking. And not in a whisper. According to Fashion Magazine, bold-red and statement lips are stealing the spotlight this season. On runways from Roksanda to Sportmax and Tom Ford, vibrant berry pinks, cherry reds, and lacquered glosses turned lips into the season’s most powerful accessory.

When William Congreve wrote, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” at the end of the 18th century, I don’t think he realized that “scorned” would take on so many meanings throughout history. In the United States of America, three centuries later, the phrase still has the same power, but in a completely different context. This year, women, specifically older women, could save the country.

Not even the best Hollywood parodies could have prepared us for the reality of the United States in 2026. And yet, each new incident desensitizes us further to the terrifying, real-time vision of how this country is transforming into the epitome of fascism and misogyny. After the men’s hockey team’s victory at the Winter Olympics, social media buzzed with a video that took us straight back to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.