“Barb, I feel like we lost our shimmer,” laments Kristen Wiig’s Star, to her best friend, played by Annie Mumolo, in the most emblematic movie of our times (and, truly, the best film of 2021), “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” Relatable, as this perfectly describes how I’ve been […]
The first Monday in May looked different this year, as the annual Met Gala has been postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the Met Gala will focus on the theme of “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which will take a deep dive into the history […]
The anticipated increase in demand for plastic surgery in the wake of the pandemic is a phenomenon surgeons are calling the “Zoom boom.” Experts are finding that, when we stare at our own reflections all the time through mirrored video conferencing, we become hyper-aware of how tired we look — […]
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we’re tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We’re asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period – and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m a 29-year-old marketing manager in the tech […]
Welcome to Beauty & The Beat, R29 Unbothered UK’s new beauty column. Each fortnight, we’re spilling the tea on the latest products made for Black women and gender nonconforming people across hair, makeup and skincare. When I was at school, my teacher confiscated the bottle of lotion I was using […]
For Ky, taking testosterone wasn’t ever “a lifelong decision”. At the age of 20, she started to take the hormone to get more masculine features. While she liked the physical effects, she didn’t like all of the social changes. After a few years, Ky started to wish she could be […]
“I am feeling anxious,” 30-year-old Mankiran Dhillon, who lives with her parents in Delhi, tells Refinery29. “Nobody was ready for this. Our country had a year to prepare and did nothing but hold huge rallies, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we are on our own.” The rallies Mankiran […]
To mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Marley Hall aka @midwifemarley shares what to do if you have a pre-existing mental health condition and want to have a baby. She’s one of the UK’s leading midwives, so you’re in safe hands (Dakota Corbin/Unsplash) How to prepare for a baby is […]
To mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week we talk to the novelist and screenwriter about her new memoir, After the Storm. With searingly brutal honesty, Emma unpacks her son’s traumatic birth, the PND that almost destroyed everything, and why the myth of women having it all is making us sick […]
If you’re Googling ‘how to clean your sex toys’, chances are, you’ve recently invested in a new sex toy or vibrator and have zero clue how – and when – you need to be rinsing them in hot soapy water. There’s another question – do you rinse them in hot, […]
