Venezuela is currently in turmoil. The South American country has been in economic crisis since an oil price crash in 2015, which has led to severe food

Bedrooms are windows into people's personalities. They're the place where you start and end each day. They're a haven of self-expression — especially

Quick question: How come rich people are so boring? For people who have so much access to spending money, it is almost magical how little imagination

For Diana and her family, the loss of her brother to a cult was slow, steady, and certain. Sometime in 2016, Alex, then 34, began a series of expensive

One of the BBC's 100 Women, Sherin Khankan is a sociologist, lecturer and author of Women Are the Future of Islam. She is also an imam at the Mariam

Anthony Bourdain was a chef, a writer, a TV host, and a celebrity. He taught people that brunch was a scam, that putting pen to paper is as much a noble

In our new series #NotYourTokenAsian, R29's Asian & Pacific Islander staffers take on the pop products, stereotypes, and culture wars that surround Asian

This story was originally published May 23, 2017. If you tuned into the Miss USA competition last weekend, you might have noticed some big changes. For

Fashion influencer Cinthia of CinthiaSpoon was busy during New York Fashion Week this February when she first saw an email with a mysterious subject line

The housing crisis has left a record number of young adults stuck living in the family home. According to official figures, a quarter of people aged

The Come Up is Refinery29’s new series featuring rising female artists who are as badass and inspiring as their music is. Check out our first

You don’t need us here at Refinery29 to remind you that this past year has been simultaneously challenging and revolutionary for women. Between the

In Hollywood, black female actresses have been typecast since the beginning. There’s the sassy sidekick, the around-the-way girl, and of course, the

There’s more to being a flight attendant than you realise. Extensive training on everything from self-defence to first aid and evacuations is

The beginning of 2018 highlighted yet another area of the entertainment industry that's suffering from some vast gender inequality: music. While the

It was an early Friday evening, and two dozen doctors were standing outside a 33-story residential building across the street from the hospital where they

I never posted a #MeToo story, and I’ve spent months trying to understand why. It isn’t that I couldn’t think of anything worth mentioning or that

Matt Damon wants gun control. In fact, he'd like to see the weapons all but eliminated. In July 2016, Damon was on a press junket when told reporter Sarah