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☆ I'm a straight-passing woman. I'm tired of having to come out all the time.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Lola Méndez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I'm a straight-passing queer person, so people never think I'm pansexual. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In queer terms, I present as "femme" since I choose to wear my hair long and clothes that society associates with being feminine. These antiquated gender standards result in folks wrongfully presuming my sexuality simply based on their preconceived notions about my appearance. I'm mistakenly labeled as straight daily, which makes me feel invisible.

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Persons: —, it's, Brent Weiss, there's, isn't, Jen Reid, Michael J, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, you'll, Weiss, doesn't Organizations: Service, Yardley Wealth Management Locations: Roth

☆ Opinion: It’s time more horror films push back against queer stereotypes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But the portrayal of trans women as predators was a new innovation that had a huge impact on the horror genre. Andit had a big impact on Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” in which the terrifying serial killer, Buffalo Bill, is a predatory trans woman (or more precisely, as Jos Truitt has explained, Bill is a transphobic caricature of a trans woman). The danger isn’t from trans women — it’s from heterosexual cis patriarchs — a reality much truer to life than Hitchcock’s fever dream. Perhaps in part for that reason, the director is careful not to make Longlegs trans or gay. It’s not just “Longlegs” which displaces violence onto queer people: Movies like “Psycho” and “Silence of the Lambs” are often acts of aggression aimed by male directors at queer people (and especially at queer women).

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☆ Some transgender and nonbinary people may want to change their voices. Gender-affirming vocal coaches are there to help
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Alexandra Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

This is where gender-affirming vocal coaches come in. “At the same time, I was taking a voice disorders class, and there was just a single bullet point on there about gender-affirming voice work,” they told CNN. “But that was enough for me to look out on my own and seek further education.”There are different approaches to gender-affirming vocal work. “Transgender vocal training, as it’s sometimes called, sprung up from a marriage of speech pathologists, singing teachers, theater specialists and their techniques. Freya, who is a lesbian, says gender-affirming work is a skill she can offer to her wider LGBTQ community.

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☆ Gina Gershon on Her Best Movie Roles: 'Bound,' 'Showgirls,' 'Killer Joe'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

On defying her agents to star in 'Bound' and finding Corky's look in San Francisco lesbian barsJennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in "Bound." I was hesitant to take on any role coming off of "Showgirls," just because, honestly, I was pretty burnt out. When the script for "Bound" was sent to us, my agents were pretty clear saying, "Listen, you are not doing this movie. On her 'Showgirls' PTSD and why she's come around on the movieGina Gershon in "Showgirls." I'm really into it."

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☆ How the hyper-colorful queer world of ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ was made
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“It was my weird femme fantasy of what my grown-up life was going to be.”“I wanted True Directions to look like the Barbie Dreamhouse,” she continued. True Direction's founder, Mary, insulates herself from reality in the artificial setting that she's built for traditional gender roles. “I just love the cult following that it’s had,” Friedberg said in the call with Babbit and Kamerman. Despite the film’s barriers, Babbit, Friedberg and Kamerman are all pleased with its longevity, particularly as they’ve seen it gain cachet with an entirely new generation this past decade. “We were just making our weirdo indie film of queer joy and female power in a vacuum.”

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☆ Casa Susanna: How an upstate New York home became a safe haven for trans women in 1960s America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Suyin Haynes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Her name is Susanna Valenti, and her home is Casa Susanna, located in the Catskills, in upstate New York. Pictured above, guests with Susanna Valenti (right) in her wife Marie Tonell's New York City apartment, circa 1960-63. Susanna (right) and two friends are pictured on a swing set at Casa Susanna, circa 1960. In discoveries of other Casa Susanna photographs, multiple copies of the same image have been found. I think people find it somewhere between charming and mind blowing.” Pictured above, guests at Casa Susanna circa 1964-68.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Hit Man’ does what ‘Double Indemnity’ couldn’t
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Hit Man” suggests that when backing away from misogyny, men, too, have more options, more happiness and more love. “Double Indemnity” turned the trope into an indelible archetype for the morally ambiguous world of film noir. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Tom Powers are pictured in Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity." The patriarchal world of “Double Indemnity” is as bleakly loveless for men as it is for women. “Hit Man,” and other contemporary noir films, in contrast, are trying to imagine a way out of the “Double Indemnity” double bind.

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☆ Quannah Chasinghorse says she's 'come so far' from her first Met Gala, where she felt like she didn't belong
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Quannah Chasinghorse attended the 2024 Met Gala on Monday. Chasinghorse told Nylon she has become a "safe space" for first-time Met Gala attendees. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala took place on Monday. Like, really, really lonely." AdvertisementLily Gladstone and Quannah Chasinghorse at the 2024 Met Gala.

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☆ I went to a food festival where Latina chefs shared their culinary journeys — and fed my Boricua soul
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Sofía Viera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I spoke with Latina chefs about their culinary crafts at a Latin food festival in New Jersey. On a warm, sunny April day in Paramus, New Jersey, the Westfield Garden State Plaza parking lot transformed into a Latin food festival. Children enjoy the warm weather and live music during a Latin food festival in Paramus, New Jersey. Cynthia Soto, owner of Empanada Lady stands for a portrait near her food stand during the Latin food festival. Honestly, I wasn't expecting much when I heard about a Latin food festival in Paramus.

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☆ Ellen DeGeneres spoke about the 'devastating' end of her talk show. Here are all the celebs who have spoken out about their experiences with her.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Julie Gerstein | Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

"The Ellen Degeneres Show" ended in May 2022, two years after toxic workplace allegations surfaced. AdvertisementShe was supposed to go out with a bang, but Ellen DeGeneres' much-loved talk show instead went out with a whimper. Even years after the 2020 controversy and ending of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," celebrities like Emily Ratajkowski have continued to question some of her behavior. Garrett, who has appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" multiple times, reshared Variety's article about the comedian's letter apologizing to staffers who felt disrespected. AdvertisementOctavia Spencer said all her experiences on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' have been 'supportive and fun'The actress, who's appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" numerous times over the years, issued a statement supporting DeGeneres via Instagram on August 13.

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☆ Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Interviews Daniel Bergner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

Relationships With More Than One PersonKatie I started by dating somebody on an ENM app who was in a different polycule who was connected to someone in this polycule. He’s married, and his wife and I are metamours, which is simply a word for my partner’s partner. Resources always help, books like “The Ethical Slut” and “Polysecure.” But undoing the monogamous script, the socialization, is really, really difficult. One of their husbands is one of my best friends and occasional sexual partner, and I do have sex with my wives, but we’re not romantically involved. It’s, I’m doing these things, I’m going to be gone for these two weeks, what do you need from me?

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☆ Stylists and designers share 8 shoe trends that are in and the 4 that are out for spring
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Amena Ahmed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Business Insider asked three fashion experts to share which shoe trends are in and out for spring. Clogs and mules are easy, comfortable, and popular trends that are on the rise this season. Business Insider spoke to two fashion designers and a stylist about which shoe trends are in and out for spring. AdvertisementBallet-flat-inspired sneakers with openings at the top of the shoe and strap-like laces are coming to the forefront of high fashion, according to fashion designer Jarrah Webster. Edward Berthelot/Getty ImagesAlthough the chunky "dad shoe" silhouette was super popular this time last year, they're falling out of favor.

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☆ Check out some of the art masterpieces in the record $300 million gift to a US university
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An art collector donated the largest art gift ever to a US university, Seattle University said. Property developer Richard Hedreen donated a $300 million collection to the university. AdvertisementAn art collector has made the largest-ever art donation to a US university, Seattle University said in a press release earlier this week. Richard Hedreen gifted the private Jesuit university more than 200 works worth a total of $300 million to create the Seattle University Museum of Art. "My wife, Betty, attended Seattle University, and I am giving the collection to the university in her honor," Hedreen said.

Persons: Richard Hedreen, Roy Lichtenstein, —, Betty, Hedreen, Elizabeth, Seattle University Hedreen, Rashid Johnson seascape, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Lucien Freud, Dick, Betty Hedreen, Patrick J, Callans, Eduardo Peñalver, Giovanni TOSCANI, Amy Sherald, Pablo Picasso's, Gustav Klimt's, Fächer Organizations: Seattle University, Service, Jesuit, Seattle University Museum of Art, Roy Lichtenstein Seattle University, Trustees, Giovanni TOSCANI Seattle, Seattle University's Jesuit, Financial Times, Amy Sherald Seattle University Locations: Seattle

☆ Opinion: These three Oscar-nominated films couldn’t be more different. Together, they represent the change we need
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

All three films question male conventions and genres in ways that show exactly why we need more films by, and more nominations for, women-directed films. Les Films PelléasTriet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” is about a German novelist, Sandra (Sandra Hüller), accused of murdering her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis). Director Celine Song talks to lead actress Greta Lee on the set of "Past Lives." That doesn’t mean that women directors are less interesting or less original than male directors. Triet, Song and Gerwig have proved that women directors are uniquely positioned to question and rethink old genres, old stories and old ideas.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, — Justine Triet’s “, Celine Song’s “, Greta Gerwig’s “, ” —, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, it’s, Randa Haines, ”, —, Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet's, Pelléas, Sandra, Samuel, Samuel Theis, Billy Wilder’s, David Fincher’s, Triet, Nora Moon, Greta Lee, Hae Sung, Teo Yoo, Nora, Arthur, John Magaro, Celine Song, doesn’t, Gerwig, “ Barbie, “ Barbie ”, Barbie, Ken, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Jaap Buitendijk, Barbie ”, Bradley Cooper’s, Maestro ”, Christopher Nolan’s “ Oppenheimer, clichés, Alexander Payne’s “, Kelly Reichardt’s, Nida Organizations: CNN, USC, Initiative, Academy, New York Times, Everett, Warner Bros ., Warner Bros, Entertainment, ” Locations: Chicago, German, South Korea

☆ A lawyer who works with dozens of content creators shares 3 red flags to watch in brand deals and the email templates she uses to get sponsorships
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Why You Should Work With Us:Our combined platforms have a strong social media presence, with over 85,000+ followers across all platforms. We plan to promote the event heavily on our social media channels and via email. We're open to discussing different ways to showcase your brand, such as featuring Delola on dedicated social media posts, or through email marketing campaigns. 🙂Why You Should Work With Me:We have a strong social media presence, with over 23,000+ followers across all platforms. Our engagement rates are through the roof - with email open rates averaging between 40-70%, and 15% of our social media followers regularly engaging with our account.

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☆ London Fashion Week: Highlights from the Fall-Winter 2024 runways
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Fiona Sinclair Scott | Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ben BroomfieldFaux furFleecy, fuzzy or fine: Faux fur was a key textile on the London runways. Ben Broomfield/Ben Broomfield @photobenphotoRobyn Lynch gave the white anorak a romantic silhouette during her Fall-Winter 2024 show. Maja SmiejkowskaStaged in a Gothic Revival church in East London, Dilara Findikoglu's show was a twisted fantasy. Dilara FindikogluSinead O'Dwyer, whose collection was inspired by a not-so-appropriate take on office wear, led the charge on diverse casting this season. Chris YatesModel on the runway at Molly Goddard RTW Fall 2024 as part of London Ready to Wear Fashion Week held at the Cecil Sharp House on February 17, 2024 in London, England.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ is giving us a new kind of monster
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The new “Lisa Frankenstein,” by Zelda Williams in her directorial debut, hits some of the same notes. Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa Swallows and Cole Sprouse as The Creature in LISA FRANKENSTEIN, a Focus Features release. This is where “Poor Things” and “Lisa Frankenstein” diverge. Bella Baxter in “Poor Things” starts out as a clumsy innocent, but she becomes more knowledgeable and self-confident over time. “Lisa Frankenstein” shows why that’s a loss for all of us — and Lisa is ready to cut up the patriarchy to prove it.

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☆ When ‘Giants’ Roam the Museum Halls
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Will Heinrich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What you think of it really depends on what you’re asking for. If you view the painting as a Venti-size iteration of Wiley’s ongoing project, his decades-long attack on the paucity of Black faces in Western museums and art history, it’s one-note but hard to argue with. Brightly colored and thoughtfully composed, it’s visually appealing, and even today, when it’s no longer so uncommon to see Black figures on museum walls, catching sight of one this big still elicits a thrill. On the other hand, considered strictly as a painting, “Femme Piquée par un Serpent” (“Woman Bitten by a Serpent”) doesn’t offer that much. It’s simply the adept illustration of an idea.

Persons: Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys, Auguste Clésinger Organizations: Giants, Art, Brooklyn Museum

☆ Britney Spears’ 2011 track ‘Selfish’ is charting higher than Justin Timberlake’s new song
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —In the music world, old grudges die hard, especially when it comes to devoted fans of a specific artist. On Friday, Britney Spears’ 2011 song “Selfish” – off her seventh album “Femme Fatale” from that year – reached no. 1 on the US iTunes chart, topping a new song of the same name from her former boyfriend Justin Timberlake, who dropped his “Selfish” track just the day before. On Saturday, Spears’ song was still holding steady at the no. “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life,” she added in her book.

Persons: Britney Spears, ”, –, Justin Timberlake, Spears, Timberlake, ” reframed, Mickey, “, “ I’ve Organizations: CNN, iTunes, Mickey Mouse Club, New York Times

☆ Marie Laurencin, the 1920s painter who hid sapphic symbols in her portraits
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Christie's/Bridgeman Images/Courtesy Barnes FoundationA portrait of Marie Laurencin by Man Ray, 1925. Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Bridgeman Images/Courtesy Barnes Foundation"The Woman-Horse (La femme-cheval)," from 1918. Fondation Foujita/Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Courtesy Barnes FoundationBut as definitions of femininity have expanded in recent decades, so too has appreciation for Laurencin’s idyllic, women-only world. She often titled her portraits of women “Friends” or “Two Friends,” leaving the exact nature of their intimacy unclear. It’s almost like a radical utopia… a world of women, for women, by women,” Kang said.

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☆ 'All of Us Strangers' dominates British Independent Film Awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Drama "All of Us Strangers" was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) on Sunday, taking home seven awards, including best British independent film and best director. "All of Us Strangers", a mystery drama about love and loss, stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a writer living in a near-empty London high-rise. It's a movie about love and we're so proud of it," Scott told Reuters on the red carpet. The provocatively titled film follows three British teen girls who go on holiday with the aim of drinking, clubbing and hooking up. French filmmaker Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning movie "Anatomy of a Fall" was named best international independent film.

Persons: Jodie Comer, Celine Song, Andrew Scott, Adam, Harry, Andrew Haigh, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell, it's, It's, Scott, Mia McKenna, Bruce, Shaun Thomas, McKenna, George Mackay, Nathan Stewart, Jarrett, Sam H, Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Justine Triet's Palme, Hanna Rantala, Neil Fullikc Organizations: British, Reuters, Thomson Locations: London, French

☆ Auctions in New York Reflect a Dip in the Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Scott Reyburn | More About Scott Reyburn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As is almost always the case now with auctions of major single-owner collections, Sotheby’s secured the Fisher Landau consignment by guaranteeing the sellers an overall minimum price. Picasso’s 1932 painting “Femme à la montre,” the star lot of the Fisher Landau collection, was one of 24 lots in the Nov. 9 evening sale backed by irrevocable bids. This was knocked down to one bid of $22.2 million, incurring Sotheby’s a substantial loss, but preserving the prestige of a 100 percent selling rate. (His Fine Art Group spent $4.8 million for a 1995 Agnes Martin painting at the Fisher Landau evening session.) The art adviser Josh Baer, reporting on the Fisher Landau auction in his Baer Faxt newsletter, said, “profitability for auction houses is not always going to happen.

Persons: Sotheby’s, Fisher, ”, Fisher Landau, Rothko, ” Hoffman, Agnes Martin, Josh Baer, Baer Organizations: Sotheby’s, Art

☆ Sally Darr, Formidable Chef of ’80s-Era French Bistro, Dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Penelope Green | More About Penelope Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sally Darr, the exacting chef and owner of La Tulipe, a tiny 1980s-era French bistro in downtown Manhattan renowned for its exquisite yet homey French cooking — and often agonizing delays — resulting from her infamous perfectionism, died on Nov. 7 at her home in the West Village. Desserts were Ms. Darr’s forte: She was a skilled pastry chef, and her apricot souffle, shaped like a minaret and served table-side with a dollop of whipped cream flavored with kirsch, was a best seller. Though she had spent more than a decade as a recipe tester for Gourmet magazine and Time-Life books, Ms. Darr had zero restaurant experience when she opened La Tulipe. Neither did her husband and business partner, John Darr, a Congregationalist minister and peace activist turned school principal. Yet Ms. Darr never doubted she would win those stars.

Persons: Sally Darr, La, Dorothy Darr, Tulipe, Darr, Mimi Sheraton, Darr’s zucchini fritters, kirsch, John Darr Organizations: The New York Times, Gourmet Locations: Manhattan, West

NEW YORK (AP) — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. It was 1918 and Picasso, then in his mid-30s, had just married ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. The exhibit, which opened Friday, is a collaboration with the Madrid foundation run by a grandson of Picasso’s, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. It comes nearly 40 years after the gallery’s initial 1986 show of Picasso sketchbooks, called “Je Suis le Cahier (I am the Sketchbook)" after a notation Picasso made on one of his pads — which subsequently toured the globe. The Pace Gallery show runs until December 22..

Persons: Pablo Picasso, “ Picasso, Picasso, Olga Khokhlova, Picasso’s, Bernard Ruiz, Marie, Thérèse Walter, ”, Marc Glimcher, Glimcher, Dora Maar, Ruiz, Paul Picasso, ” Ruiz, “ Organizations: Pace, “ Locations: “, balmy Biarritz, Madrid, —, New York, France, Juan, Mougins

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