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Fiorina’s Planned Parenthood Comment Was Graphic, Upsetting — And Totally ...
Meredith Clark
Sep 17, 2015
Work & Money
How I Ended Up With $244K In Debt & Other True Stories
Lindsey Stanberry
Sep 15, 2015
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Anne Hathaway Is Our Kind Of Cool Girl
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Sep 9, 2015
Entertainment News
The Big, Unspoken Problem With All This Taylor Swift Backlash
In July, Gawker boldly declared that “Taylor Swift Is Not Your Friend.” Later that day, Salon clocked the start of “The Inevitable Taylor
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Neha Gandhi
Wellness
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp
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We already know what happened on the last day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981 thanks to the cult classic film Wet Hot American Summer (2001). Now, 1
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Lauren Le Vine
Politics
Is Trophy Hunting Ever Okay?
Ever since news broke that an American dentist paid upward of $50,000 to hunt and kill Cecil, a beloved 13-year-old lion in Zimbabwe’s protected Hwan
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Jessica Chou
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Entertainment News
Soon-Yi Previn & The Empty Chair
This week's New York magazine cover, featuring 35 women who've accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, has rightly rocked the media by boldly expos
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Kelsey Miller
Entertainment News
Some Of You Asked Us To Stop Writing About The Kardashians — This...
Here at Refinery29, we write about a lot of things as part of our mission to inform and inspire women. In the Entertainment vertical alone, you’ll fi
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Lauren Le Vine
Trends
The Very Weird World Of China’s Instagram Luxury Bag Mules
If you regularly keep up with high-profile personalities on Instagram, you've probably witnessed the avalanche of comments they receive on every singl
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Venus Wong
Entertainment News
#TheEmptyChair Sends An Important Message To Sexual Assault Victi...
It’s entirely possible that Bill Cosby will never see the inside of a courtroom — never mind a jail cell — for the sexual assaults he has
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Elizabeth Kiefer
Politics
Who Is In Donald Trump’s Wolfpack?
Donald Trump believes he is at the helm of a movement. “This is more than me,” he said via telephone on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday
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Nina Wolpow
Celebrity Beauty
How Makeup Got Me Through My Darkest Moment
It feels like it was eons ago when I was introduced to the world as Rihanna’s sidekick in a controversial music video. Really, it’s only been about thr
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Sanam
TV Shows
I Am Cait
Needs To Address These Issues
If the Vanity Fair cover was her christening and the ESPYs her coronation, then I Am Cait will show us what to make of Queen Caitlyn, who now reigns upon T
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Hannah Simpson
Music
Meet Singer Alessia Cara: Taylor Swift’s A Fan & So Are We
Kenzo sweater, Blk Denim pants. In less than a year, Alessia Cara has gone from being a You Tube artist to a Def Jam signee whose debut single, “Here
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Cortney Riles
Tech
Why Apple’s Latest Hire Is Huge News
Apple just made a surprising new hire: Doug Betts, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' former senior vice president of global quality. The big auto-industry ge
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Christina Bonnington
Movies
It’s Been 20 Years Since
Kids
& I’m Still Ha...
I watched Kids for the first time sitting on the carpeted floor of my nanny's bedroom, alone. Earlier that day, I'd biked to the local video stor
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Kelsey Miller
Styling Tips
What People Were Wearing When They Were Rejected From The World’s...
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Connie Wang
Celebrity Beauty
The Beauty-Industry Problem No One Talks About
A couple of weeks ago, model Nykhor Paul put the fashion and beauty industry on blast in an unapologetically honest Instagram post that quickly went viral.
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Taylor Bryant
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World News
Powerful Photos Help Tell Stories Of Acid Attack Survivors
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Meredith Clark
Politics
Will Bill Cosby Ever See The Inside Of A Prison Cell?
In another unsealed court deposition, Bill Cosby recounts how he pursued younger women. Cosby explains how he used Quaaludes in his sexual conquests, behav
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Sally Kohn
Diet & Nutrition
Should We Prescribe Weed To Kids?
Mia, a nine-year-old epileptic girl in Calgary, can have up to 100 seizures a day. But, for over 18 months, she hadn't had a single one, thanks to a n
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Sarah Jacoby
Politics
How One Discovery Uncovered Over 200 Serial Rapists
Update: Dozens of cities around the country have spent millions of dollars to find and test rape kits that had been neglected by law enforcement. From Detr
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Meredith Clark
Spirit
I’ve Been There For Hundreds Of Dying People — Here’s...
Over the past six years, I have watched hundreds of people transition from life to death — sitting with them in hospice care or in the comfort o
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Erin Coriell
Shopping
The 8 Shopper Habits That’ll Get You On A Store’s Sh*...
What you say — and how you say it — matters, and you’ve most likely read your fair share of articles about how to better use your words a
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Connie Wang
Queer Voices
What It’s Really Like To Be A Trans Woman
This story was originally published on Sept. 23, 2016. Beauty is not a toothless enterprise. Though we may have casual discussions about the best red lipst
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Arabelle Sicardi
Shopping
Every Single Piece From The Lilly Pulitzer x Target Collection
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Gina Marinelli
Politics
You Need To Know These 14 Names
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Akiba Solomon
Politics
“I Realized The Only Person Who Can Change My Life Is Me...
Daniella Carter is 20 years old, but she seems to have lived several full lives. Raised in foster care, she came out as transgender at age 14, and was cut
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Ben Reininga
New York
Why Are These Women On A Hunger Strike?
Late Tuesday night, Francis Madi, 25, and Alexandra Ramos, 24, finished a dinner of pizza and soda and began a hunger strike. Madi and Ramos are
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Meredith Clark
Pop Culture
Meet The Women Behind NYC’s First-Ever Conference On Women ...
New Yorkers enjoy the privilege of living in a city full of things that couldn't exist anywhere else. A man who makes a living by walking around
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Vanessa Golembewski
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