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Does Your Underwear Have An Expiration Date?

Does Your Underwear Have An Expiration Date?

Here at Refinery29, I’ve become the resident expert on underwear. How often should you change your skivvies? Should you wear panties to bed? I’m the go-to gal for these kinds of below-the-belt questions. But when my editors asked me to write about how often you need to replace your undies, […]

Beirut Needs Your Help: How To Support The City & Where To Donate Right Now

Beirut Needs Your Help: How To Support The City & Where To Donate Right Now

On Tuesday, a colossal explosion shook the Lebanese capital of Beirut severely damaging and demolishing the city’s port. For up to six miles away from the blast, parts of the city saw a jarring and overwhelming impact from the blast. By the next morning, more than 100 people were declared […]

Alicia Keys Is Officially Launching A Lifestyle Beauty Brand

Alicia Keys Is Officially Launching A Lifestyle Beauty Brand

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 12: Alicia Keys attends the 2019 Billboard Women In Music at Hollywood Palladium on December 12, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) Alicia Keys’ naturally glowy complexion has always made us wonder what beauty products the singer-songwriter has in rotation, even before […]

Venus In Cancer Is Getting Us In Our Feelings

Venus In Cancer Is Getting Us In Our Feelings

Venus, the planet of love, social awareness, and money, is finally exiting its extended four-month stay in Gemini. Its next stop is emotional Cancer on August 7, where it will stay until September 5, says Narayana Montúfar, senior astrologer at Astrology.com. “During the time Venus was retrograde in intellectual Gemini, […]

The Best Music Documentaries About Women, From The Go-Go’s To Miss Americana

The Best Music Documentaries About Women, From The Go-Go’s To Miss Americana

There’s something wonderfully satisfying about seeing how some of our most beloved music is made. Even if the process is messy or fraught with drama — as these things often go in the music world — it can be fascinating to see the seed of an idea or a burst […]

Molly Wizenberg Knows There Isn’t Just One Way To Be Queer

Molly Wizenberg Knows There Isn’t Just One Way To Be Queer

There is a dominant narrative about what it means to be queer: a person struggles with their identity, comes out, and eventually finds love. Within that narrative there’s another storyline, one that involves a denial of self via a metaphorical closet, in which a person subsumes their identity, partnering with […]

An Ode To Coyote Ugly, The Ultimate ‘00s Fashion Movie

An Ode To Coyote Ugly, The Ultimate ‘00s Fashion Movie

Low-rise leather pants. Leopard print mini skirts. Ripped USA T-shirts. As a teenager watching Coyote Ugly in the early 00s, I was immediately hypnotised. In fact, few films from then made as big of a fashion impression on me. Part coming-of-age story, part dance film, the comedy-drama (that came out […]

Inside The Portland Protests, Separating Fact From Fiction

Inside The Portland Protests, Separating Fact From Fiction

The anti-racism protests in Portland, OR have now surpassed the two-month mark, but rather than have a single narrative arc, multiple storylines have emerged from these specific protests, together creating a cacophony of sound quickly approaching a deafening decibel, making it hard, at times, to decipher what’s really going on. […]

Cloud Bread Is TikTok’s Latest Viral Food Trend

Cloud Bread Is TikTok’s Latest Viral Food Trend

Despite the bans, sales, and acquisitions, TikTok remains a hallowed oasis for today’s overwhelmed youth, however fleeting these spaces tend to be. While Cloud Bread has gone viral before and is by no means a new invention, it’s making a splash on the TikTok right now. Cloud Bread is at […]