Новости за 15.12.2021

bell hooks, the renowned author, critic, activist, and feminist scholar, died Wednesday following an undisclosed illness. News of her death was announced by her family via Twitter and was later confirmed by Berea College, where hooks founded the bell hooks Institute. She was 69-years-old.

Raising children in this day and age seems immensely difficult, even under the best of circumstances—and arguably, one might imagine that the various children produced by the Kardashian-Jenner women live in circumstances that many do not. The key difference, though, is that these children are famous and have known…

Personally, every December turns into a scramble to find
gifts that top the previous year’s—or a scramble to find an eclectic boutique where I can do one big shop for every loved one in my life. And every year, without fail, I find that the hardest person to shop for on my very long list of people I care about is…

A matter of hours after being named TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year, Elon Musk is making the news for hurling a string of sexist tweets at Sen. Elizabeth Warren for calling on him to pay taxes. In response to Warren’s pretty reasonable demand, the richest man in the world told her she reminded him of “when I was a kid…

For reasons that defy understanding, Ben Affleck is choosing this moment to process his divorce from Jennifer Garner. In conversation with Howard Stern, Affleck reflected on his alcohol misuse and how his marriage and children contributed to it. “I was like, ‘I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy, what…

After seven years of competing in state-level pageants, Marisa Butler had finally done it. All the velcroed sashes, hours of interview prepping, long waltzes across well-lit stages in uncomfortable heels, and waiting and waiting and waiting for them to call her name had finally paid off. In 2018, they did: Miss World…

It would be disingenuous of me to begin what will shortly be a completely informational blog that features none of this writer’s residual bitterness without the following disclaimer: I wanted a fucking Felicity doll my entire childhood and never got one because 1) we could not afford it 2) my father believed that…

Just one day after Time named Tesla CEO Elon Musk its “Person of the Year,” six women have filed lawsuits against the company, alleging horrific sexual harassment by male co-workers and superiors that the women claim was inspired by Musk himself.

In a Law and Order: SVU episode earlier this year, a teenage girl of color, Nydia, is hospitalized, and it’s revealed her abusive foster father who impregnated her had crushed up and added medication abortion pills — mifepristone and misoprostol — to a smoothie she drank, to attempt to induce an abortion against her…