The exhaustive number of articles and social media posts bashing Madonna’s face at the 2023 GRAMMY Awards ceremony on Sunday night are a sliced-and-diced reflection of the impossible beauty standard that women face: damned if you do, damned if you don’t....
For women like us who have spent numerous years creating our identities around our work or our families, taking a step in a new direction can feel like a katydid molting its exoskeleton. It’s unsettling and liberating in equal measures, possibly painful–we can’t ask...
“Release,” I said. “Wash,” my husband, Ricardo, declared as he kept an eye on the stage at Berlin’s impressive amphitheater, Waldbuhne, built over 80 years ago as home to the 1936 Olympics and a Nazi propaganda tool. The first band I ‘followed’ was the...
