Virgie Tovar
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Earlier this month I flew into JFK for the Glamour Women of the Year Awards (WOTY, for short) and took selfies with Gabourey Sidibe!
Read...I can think of few things more worthy of celebrating on International Women’s Day than the slow and very public decline of a company that has capit
Read...It’s important to recognize that tiny or unsupportive seats (no matter how beautiful) send a silent but powerful message about who has the right to sit down. This message has strong ripple effects for a community that is already facing quite a bit of discrimination.
Read...Why is it important to call a diet a diet? Because 1. The truth is actually important and 2. Misleading language only benefits the person peddling it.
Read...There is not a single path to self-love, and so you must become an engineer of that process. We have to feel lots of uncomfortable things.
Read...Jacob (boyfriend) lives walking distance to a See’s Candies. This means that half the week I live walking distance to a See’s Candies — which, if you're me, is a little like living next to Disneyland.
Read...It was Nancy's thin privilege that obscured her ability to see what Barb saw in the Popular Kids, to make the social leap that Barb couldn't, and that led her to ultimately symbolically (and actually) leave behind their friendship when a more normative offer presented itself.
Read...A couple of weeks ago I got an email that contained a question I never thought I’d be asked.
Read...As much as I love the idea of family, I actually like not being married, and I actually like not being a mother right now.
Read...What does it mean to want this body? What does it mean to fight for this brown, fat feminine body? In this culture, it means revolution.
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