Climate reporting often overlooks indigenous peoples’ position on the front lines of the climate crisis. Though environmental justice is a term now featured frequently in environmental news, this hasn’t always translated into an acknowledgement of the climate crisis’ disproportionate impacts on indigenous communities,…

Daphne Dorman, the transgender woman referenced in Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, Sticks & Stones, has died, Deadline confirms. San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives reports that the cause of Dorman’s death was suicide.

El Camino, which premiered October 11 on Netflix, is a harrowing and meditative two-hour long imagining of what happened to Jesse Pinkman after the series finale of Breaking Bad. If you have the stomach for the sort of low-simmering anxiety that creator Vince Gilligan specializes in, then please set aside two hours of…

A global study of over two thousand women in four countries found that 41 percent of respondents “experienced physical or verbal abuse, or stigma or discrimination” during childbirth.

Jeremy Renner and Sonni Pacheco’s marriage lasted only 10 months before they filed for divorce in 2014, with Pacheco citing “irreconcilable” differences between her and the Marvel actor. Their custody battle over daughter Ava Berlin, now age six, began shortly after, and escalated in September after Renner and Pacheco…

On Saturday night, Lifetime premiered the first in what, I can only imagine, will be an unlimited supply of movies, TV shows, and TV movies about Operation Varsity Blues. The College Admissions Scandal follows two devoted, wealthy mothers who would do anything to stay rich and elite by ensuring their not-so-bright…

Dr. Robert Ballard managed to find the Titanic’s final resting place but, for now, he has been thwarted by Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.

Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book Catch and Kill paints a disturbing portrait of NBC News executives, from NBC News chairman Andrew Lack who reportedly relentlessly pursued women who worked for him to MSNBC head Phil Griffin, who at one staff meeting waved around an image of entertainment reporter Maria Menounos’s exposed…

As someone who has given little more than an iota of a fuck about a Disney movie in well over a decade, news that the rapidly monopolizing studio giant was unveiling a streaming service called Disney Plus piqued little interest. Access to every Disney theatrical release sounds great for parents, and access to every…

America doesn’t really make monsters anymore. Rare is the blockbuster horror movie where a werewolf or vampire poses a threat greater to young women than simple seduction, and demons and devils seem passé these days. Even popular space movies, from Interstellar to Gravity and Ad Astra, tend to hone in on existential…

As they say: better late than never.

Last week, the internet surfaced a cheaply constructed rainbow apartment-for-rent in Downtown Los Angeles: an ode to Trapper Keeper empress Lisa Frank, designed as an advertisement for Hotels.com. Naturally, its novelty made the SponCon go viral, and the space, available only for stays October 11-27, was booked out…

If you only know two sentences from Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, they are these: “My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.” These lines are quoted in Tumblr posts and Twitter bios, in a few nuanced essays like this one and dozens of dull manifestos. They’re cited in a Bustle…

Variety’s Power of Women Luncheon is notable for its ability to gather various #girlbosses in one room on a Friday afternoon in Los Angeles, no matter the traffic or Uber Black surge pricing! At this year’s event, Mariah Carey stumbled through the opening of her speech after the teleprompter went out. Attempting to…

Pharrell Williams is the gown-clad cover star of GQ’s “New Masculinity” issue, and the accompanying interview finds him making many socially conscious observations. One of them is: “I just read the Declaration of Independence the other day and my jaw dropped. Referring to the Native Americans as merciless…

Lululemon is the sort of company worth avoiding. Press in its early days was dominated by its fatphobic founder Chip Wilson, bizarre stories about customers being asked to bend over to reveal transparent merchandise, and complaints that the brand was tracking down re-sellers. Now, the Bangladeshi factory workers who…