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My Parents Banished Me To A Hut Every Time I Got My Period
When Bhagirathi Bajagain, 20, started her period six years ago, her family imposed the traditional Nepali practice of 'Chhaupadi' – forcing her to sleep outside in a small, windowless hut during...
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Pink Hair Is The Unsung Hero Of NYFW Street Style
Red lips, sharp parts, oversized sunglasses, this is the Fashion Week beauty uniform you see on show-goers every season, without fail. But somewhere between a trusty tube of Ruby Woo and the latest...
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How The BBC's Mishal Husain Went From Her First Job To Her Dream Job
The day it was announced that Mishal Husain would join BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in 2013, I received multiple texts from female friends saying "YES! Mishal is the best! Well done the BBC!" She was...
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Yara Shahidi's Directorial Debut Is A Stunning Look At What It Means To Be...
In Yara Shahidi 's short-film, X, a Black child leaves home one morning to go to school. He puts on his Converse Chuck Taylors, eats cereal, goes to science class — he's a regular kid. But as he steps...
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Free Money For All Could Solve Our Financial Woes – But Is It Too Good To Be...
There's a lot the UK could learn from other countries to improve the majority of our lives. New Zealand left us envious recently with its efforts to solve its housing crisis and enthusiasm for a...
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I Worked For President Obama — & Here's Why I Support Cynthia Nixon
Photo: Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images. When I first heard that Cynthia Nixon was running for governor of New York, I rolled my eyes. Good grief, I thought. Another celebrity. Didn’t we have more than...
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My Dog Was An Instagram Superstar. Here’s How She Changed My Life
For her wedding, which was televised on The Real Housewives of New York, she wore a custom Marchesa gown and a $170,000 diamond necklace. She was a published author. She starred in an international...
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Assassination Nation is the Anthem for Teen Angst In This Exclusive Clip
Get ready to basically never use social media again. The upcoming movie Assassination Nation, the first project in Refinery29's feature film partnership with Neon, explores the new terrifying reality...
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The iPhone Xs & Xr Are Here: Take A First Look At Apple's Latest Devices
It’s been a full year since Apple unveiled its most expensive, premium iPhone, the iPhone X, introducing new words — Animoji! The notch! Face ID — into our collective vocabulary, relegating the home...
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Lourdes Leon Leads The Next Class Of Celebrity Models At Gypsy Sport
Photo: Pixelformula/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock.When you're a celebrity offspring, you stand out even amongst the models of fashion month. It's why last season, Kaia and Presley Gerber saw their first...
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The Truth Behind Those Viral Sex Trafficking Warning Tweets You Keep Seeing
The summer of scams is apparently not over. The latest, however, is more of an un-scam, or something people have been led to believe is a scam, but isn't.Recently, a message has made its way around the...
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You Can Already Buy Some Of The New Disney x Coach Collection
On Tuesday, Coach debuted its latest Americana-inspired collection at New York Fashion Week. And while we're sure you caught the industrial set-up, the star-studded front row (hey, Selena!), and...
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Scrunchies & Scarves: See The Best Hair Accessories From NYFW
Switching up your style doesn’t necessarily mean chopping off all your hair or dying it pink. You can always experiment with other, less permanent, ways to update your look. The first thing you should...
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Talking About Periods When You’re Trans Or Nonbinary
"There are a lot of good conversations about trans issues happening at the moment, but I think a lot of people don’t really think or talk about trans and nonbinary people getting periods," says Mia,...
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10 Of The Biggest Street Style Trends You Can Shop Now
And that's a wrap on New York Fashion Week! Each year we look forward to the peacock-ing pomp and circumstance that surrounds fashion's bi-annual event almost as much as the runway shows themselves....
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The Instagram Accounts To Follow This London Fashion Week
Instagram is fashion's favourite social media. The visually focused platform gives purveyors of popular culture a wide scope to inspire and be inspired. And although every 'gram is creative in its own...
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"I Felt My Body Was Wrong": The Women Who Don't Have Periods (NSFW)
Supporting each other through periods is a familiar pastime for most women. From the colleagues trading ibuprofen and sanitary products on Slack to the housemates curled up on the sofa with a hot water...
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The Incredible Women Raising Groups Of Orphans Alongside Their Own Children
Most of us gasp in sympathy when we hear of women having twins or triplets. Yes, we might want babies, but ideally one at a time – with just the right gap before a sibling comes along.Our Western...
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This New Exhibition Celebrates The Art Of Fashion Illustration
Before the digital age of Instagram and InDesign, there was fashion illustration, the revered medium through which artists captured the very best of fashion. Drawing live from catwalk shows,...
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Your Funniest & Most Glorious Period Sex Stories
We’re constantly told that periods shouldn’t stop us from getting on with our everyday lives. Aside from the widespread misinformation surrounding menstruation and PMS (no, guys, it’s not just a tummy...
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