Beyoncé For Topshop | 10 Worse States For American Women | Annual World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report
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1. The always notably fabulous Helen Mirren joins Jane Fonda and Julianne Moore as brand ambassadors for L’Oreal Paris, appearing in an ad for the band’s anti-aging skincare called Age Perfect.
2. Beyoncé has entered into a formal, 50-50 business partnership with British retailer Topshop to produce an athletic streetwear brand.
3. We learned in September that Queen Bey’s 2013 surprise album drop is the subject of an upcoming case study by Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse.
4. This year’s reportcontains few surprises. Nordic countries continue to dominate the top five places in the rankings. The bottom five countries for women are Yemen, Pakistan, Chad, Syria and Mali. The US ranks 20th, lagging behind poor nations like Nicaragua and Rwanda. We will dig in further.
5. 24/7 Wall evaluated American women’s lives by state in terms of the gender wage gap; poverty rate; pct of women in state legislature; and infant mortality rate. The 10 worst states for American women considering these criteria are:
10. Kansas; 9.Alabama; 8. Indiana; 7. South Dakota; 6. Montana; 5. North Dakota; 4. Mississippi; 3. Idaho; 2. Wyoming; 1. Utah
October 11 Is International Day of the Girl | Honoring Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize & Angelina Jolie As A British Dame
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On Friday Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing the honor with India’s Kailash Satyarthi, who has dedicated himself to fighting child slavery in India for decades.
Malala has amazed millions of Westerners as an articulate survivor of the attempts of Pakistan’s Taliban to kill her. A vocal advocate for girls education who already had a blog on the BBC website, Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban, who commandeered her school bus. Not only did Malala Yousafzai defy all odds of surviving with her brain intact, she has achieved global rock star status as a change advocate for children.
Kurdish Women Fighters In Syria Say ISIS Fears Women Soldiers So Much They Shake
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Kurdish Women Fighters In Syria Say ISIS Fears Women Soldiers So Much They Shake
In a media world assaulted with ISIS videos and threats of yet another beheading, the most fabulous story of heroism has emerged around a group of about 7,000 young Kurdish women in Syria who have armed themselves and joined the Women’s Protection Unit, or YPJ, “which grew out of the wider Kurdish resistance movement.”
I’ve covered this story in small bullet points on Eye, but this NBC News feature of dramatic images by New York-based photographer Erin Trieb are an inspiration for our ISIS media-weary souls.
Unlike the Iraqi soldiers who ran from ISIS, the Women’s Protection Unit is fighting to keep their people safe against attacks from Bashar Assad’s government, ISIS militants and the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Eye: Beyonce's Feminism, Moms Against NRA, Women Newscasters, Kurdish Women Soldiers Face ISIS
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Why It Felt So Amazing When Beyonce Stood in Front of That Glowing “Feminist” Sign Slate
It’s no surprise that Beyoncé identifies as a feminist: She featured a speech on feminism by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her song “Flawless” and wrote a piece for the Shriver Report titled “Gender Equality Is a Myth!” But the VMAs statement was next level—an unusually mainstream flaunting of feminist pride in our image-driven culture. And man did it feel good.
Diane Sawyer Steps Down As World News Anchor Huff Po
Katie Couric on Diane Sawyer: ‘I Wonder Who She Blew This Time’ The Daily Beast
News executives and network publicists have been distracting themselves from this summer’s seriously depressing or otherwise alarming world events by passing around and pouring over bound galleys of The News Sorority, veteran journalist Sheila Weller’s gossipy chronicle of the rise (and occasional stumbles) of three of television news’ best-known women.
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System To Monitor Women’s Movements - See more at: http://viralwomen.com/post/saudi_arabia_implements_electronic_tracking_system_to_monitor_womens_movements#sthash.agu5oqY2.dpuf
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System To Monitor Women’s Movements - See more at: http://viralwomen.com/post/saudi_arabia_implements_electronic_tracking_system_to_monitor_womens_movements#sthash.agu5oqY2.dpuf
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System To Monitor Women’s Movements - See more at: http://viralwomen.com/post/saudi_arabia_implements_electronic_tracking_system_to_monitor_womens_movements#sthash.agu5oqY2.dpuf
Abigail Disney Defends Meryl Streep's Calling Walt Disney A 'Gender Bigot'
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Abigail Disney Defends Meryl Streep’s Calling Walt Disney A ‘Gender Bigot
Bravo Meryl Streep, a quintessential Smart Sensuality woman. Of course, a furor from opposing sides ensued after Streep called Walt Disney an anti-Semitic gender bigot. The great-niece of Walt Disney supported the actress. Abigail Disney, 54, an activist and filmmaker wrote that although she has “mixed feelings” about Walt Disney, she “loved” Streep’s comments about her famous relative.
Anti-Semite? Check. Misogynist? OF COURSE!!Racist? C’mon he made a film (‘Jungle Book’) about how you should stay “with your own kind” at the height of the fight over segregation.’King of the Jungle’ number wasn’t proof enough!! How much more information do you need?”
Fei Fei Sun By Patrick Demarchelier For W November 2013 A Clean Getaway:
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Yet another minimal resort editorial with plenty of white is Fei Fei Sun styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé. Patrick Demarchelier is behind the lens by W November’s ‘A Clean Getaway’./ Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Aaron de Mey
Anilez Silva 'Africa' by Daniel Bracci Delves Into Woman's Collective Unconscious
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Anilez Silva ‘Africa’ by Daniel Bracci Delves Into Woman’s Collective Unconscious
Returning to the Musée Dapper a few months later with my African American friend Phyllis, I told her the story of my quick exit from my first visit.
We entered the bookstore to the right of the entrance, which made leaving easy. Literally five minutes after walking in the front door, lights went our, alarms rang, and Phyllis and I were ushered out onto the street as doors were locked.
The adage is three strikes and you’re out, and this is my story. I returned to the MuséeDapper a few years later with my partner and his son.
By this time my unusual chemistry with African artifacts was known to my family, and we entered the building prepared to leave immediately. That was not the case. In fact, we spent at least 45 minutes wandering through the small rooms on a crowded day and were on the second floor when the alarms went off.
Was I a witch? A high priestess?
This is the end of my Parisian African art museum story. The MuséeDapper moved to new quarters at a block away and I have no magic powers there.
Responsible Pleasure Is Not a Sin Says Sister Margaret Farley
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Nicole Bentley captures Australian singer-songwriter and pianist Delta Lea Goodrem for the July issue of Vogue Australia.Responsible Pleasure Is Not a Sin Says Sister Margaret Farley AOC Sensual Rebel
Sister Farley makes the core argument for Smart Sensuality women — that being in touch with our sensual selves as Delta Goodrem acts out on video, opens up the door for a liberating form of self love that needn’t become a form of “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the sexiest woman of all? Me, me, me. Let me have sex with every man in sight”
“It is surely the case that many women, following the ‘our bodies our selves’ movement in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century, have found great good in self-pleasuring — perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure — something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers,” she writes. “In this way, it could be said that masturbation actually serves relationships rather than hindering them.”
For Smart Sensuality women, the appreciation — rather than disgust — of our bodies inspires our desire for connection with the world at large. Kind sensitivity to ourselves inspires a desire to care for others, just as Sister Farley writes.
