Tag: beauty

Vanessa Bryant Honoured Kobe & Gigi With Meaningful New Tattoos

Vanessa Bryant Honoured Kobe & Gigi With Meaningful New Tattoos

It’s been almost five months since Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna “Gigi” Bryant, tragically passed away in a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of all nine people on board. But their memory lives on through the people they left behind, including Kobe’s loving wife and mother to their […]

Black Queer People In Fashion To Support During Pride Month — & Beyond

This year, Pride month — which marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when Black LBGTQ+ activists like Stormé DeLarverie and Marsha P. Johnson led demonstrations in NYC after the police raided Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn — intersects with a moment in history when the racist treatment of Black […]

I Was In Lafayette Square Before President Trump’s Bible Photo-Op. Now, I’m Suing

I Was In Lafayette Square Before President Trump’s Bible Photo-Op. Now, I’m Suing

On the late afternoon of 1st June, Toni Sanders headed to Lafayette Square, near the White House, with her wife and nine-year-old stepson. For days, Sanders had been out protesting the pattern of police brutality that was killing a growing and alarming number of Black people. The 36-year-old and her […]

It’s Not Enough To Reform The Police — Defunding Is The Only Answer

It’s Not Enough To Reform The Police — Defunding Is The Only Answer

No modern grassroots uprising is complete without a robust social media component, and the racial insurgency that has followed George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has been no exception. In the weeks of anti-police brutality actions that have followed Floyd’s killing, Instagram timelines have been flooded […]

JK Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be A Surprise

JK Rowling’s Transphobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be A Surprise

On Saturday — while people globally marched in protest of systemic racism and police violence against Black people and people of colour — author JK Rowling decided it would be a good time to send a tweet taking issue with a headline that used the phrase “people who menstruate.” “I’m […]