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Betty Gilpin has what perhaps could be called character dysmorphia: the feeling that, as an actress, her body isn’t right for the roles she wants to play. That’s not exactly a groundbreaking notion in Hollywood; actresses have complained for decades about looks-based typecasting and its correlation to the glut of two-dimensional women onscreen. But Gilpin—the
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When Katori Hall’s Mississippi stripper saga P-Valley premiered in July 2020, star Nicco Annan immediately claimed viewers’ hearts. As house mother and diva extraordinaire Uncle Clifford—who identifies as non-binary and uses she/her pronouns—Annan (he/him) channels the soul of the show, empathetic and fierce, as the strip club owner leads the dancers of the Pynk through
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I lay on the floor of a 407-year-old French chapel, reconstructed stone by stone on a lavender-covered hill at Cal-a-Vie, a tony Southern California destination spa. Six crystal bowls surrounded me, humming with a soothing sound. Palms up, eyes closed, I was there for a sound bath, a form of meditation that studies suggest can
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Black women are three times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The reasons are wide-ranging, from what resources are available to the ongoing issue of bias and racism in healthcare. Aftershock, an eye-opening new documentary, aims to shed new light on this massive problem. From co-directors Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula
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On The Kardashians, the family’s new Hulu reality series, Kourtney Kardashian’s relationship with Travis Barker and the anguish it has caused Scott Disick, her ex-boyfriend and father of her children, have been major plot points. But in the latest episode of the show, Kardashian lamented to her friend Steph Shepherd that, in reality, the Disick
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