Month: December 2021

Naomie Harris Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted By A “Huge Star” At An Audition

Editor’s Note: The following article includes details about an alleged sexual assault that may be triggering. Please proceed thoughtfully. Actress Naomie Harris has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a famous actor during an audition. The Oscar-nominated star told You magazine that “a huge, huge star” put his hand up her […]

Pantone’s Colour Of The Year 2021 Is All About Encouraging Creativity

Pantone has unveiled its colour of the year 2021: Very Peri, which it describes as a “dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet red undertone”. There’s something undeniably soothing about the shade, which Pantone calls the “happiest and warmest of all the blue hues”. It follows on from previous […]

A Week In Austin, TX, On A $45,000 Salary

A Week In Austin, TX, On A $45,000 Salary

Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar. Today: a content creator who makes $45,000 per year and spends some of her money […]

Latin Music Has Taken Over the Globe—But Where Are the Women Producers?

Latin Music Has Taken Over the Globe—But Where Are the Women Producers?

Producers are the backbone of every song listeners grow to love—especially amid the lilts and thumps of Latin genres like reggaetón, dembow, Latin trap, and R&B en Español—but too often this musical vertebra is constructed by cis men. In fact, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 2% of […]

Your Horoscope This Week: December 12th to December 18, 2021

Your Horoscope This Week: December 12th to December 18, 2021

The week ahead opens with a square between the Sun in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces — between the planetary body that represents our sense of self and the one that represents our ability to transcend our sense of self and experience something greater. Both mutable and traditionally ruled by […]

This Is The Average Annual Cost Of Student Accommodation In The UK

Students are paying 60% more to live in halls of residence than a decade ago, according to a new report. The average annual cost of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK is £7,347, the report by the National University of Students (NUS) and housing charity Unipol found. This means that […]

Instagram’s New Playback Feature Lets You Share (& Edit) Your 2021 Highlights

Are you ready to look back at your best – and maybe worst – photos of 2021? Instagram has launched a new feature called Playback that allows you to share highlights from the last year. It’s a bit like Spotify Wrapped, but with photos from your Instagram Story instead of […]

How I Shed My Shame Around Caste

Five years ago, at a playdate with one of my oldest girlfriends and our babies, I asked her about her experience with using a surrogate in India. We’re both Indian-Canadian living in Toronto, and I had read that lower-caste surrogates were being paid nearly $2,000 (£1,200) less than higher-caste women […]

Harlem Isn’t Exactly A New Concept, But Does It Have To Be?

Harlem Isn’t Exactly A New Concept, But Does It Have To Be?

When the trailer for Prime Video’s new series Harlem first dropped, a wave of deja vu washed over many of us. The show’s premise, pinned on the friendship of four Black women navigating life and love in the concrete jungle, seemed…familiar. Didn’t we just watch a show with this exact […]