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9 Female Showrunners On Diversity, Discrimination, & Fighting For Change After #MeToo

From being the only woman in the room to fielding period jokes and making sure there’s space for fellow female creatives, here’s what these showrunners want you to know when it comes to working in TV, or really any male-dominated industry. Read...

08.8.19

Glamour Magazine Names Lupita Nyong'o "Woman Of The Year," Beauty And Race Collide (Again)

The acknowledgment of Lupita’s elegance begins a process to alleviate any future need to add "for a . . . " to the end of “You’re beautiful.”

Sarah Gladstone

11.4.14

3 Emerging Writers Carrying on the Torch of Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou

Sarah Gladstone

05.31.14

Newsflash: Not Every Dark Girl Has a Complex About Her Skin

The idea of "fairest of them all" impacts women of color in many different ways.

Sarah Gladstone

05.27.14

Lupita Nyong'o Is Lancôme's Newest Ambassador and No, It's Not Because She's Black

Lupita Nyong'o is “challenging” traditional ideas of beauty—but it's not because she's brown.

Sarah Gladstone

04.7.14

Women in Media : Underrepresented, Hypersexualized and Mad As Hell

The Women’s Media Center has released their (rather depressing) 2014 report examining the representation of women in everything from news media to

Katie Tandy

02.26.14