Growing Up Girl

10/25/2025

Jennifer Aniston is set to star in and executive produce the TV adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s powerful memoir "I’m Glad My Mom Died," and she revealed why the project feels so personal to her. Aniston shared that she and McCurdy “had very similar moms,” both growing up with complicated, critical mothers who shaped their childhoods. She praised McCurdy’s courage and writing, calling her “so special,” and said she was immediately drawn to the role when it came her way. The upcoming Apple TV series will explore McCurdy’s real-life story of resilience, with Aniston stepping into the role of her mother.

09/05/2025

Kudos. Love her.

Black q***r writer Roxane Gay to receive award for outstanding service to literature

“It is an honor to recognize Roxane Gay’s extraordinary contributions to the literary community,” said National Book Foundation Board Chair David Steinberger.

08/28/2025

Pamela Anderson is now the face of MAC’s new ‘Barely There’ makeup line..🤍

08/14/2025

Going from a shy Black girl, born in 1947 and raised under Jim Crow, to a literary icon, Octavia E. Butler’s path to success was not linear. She was told not to dream but to get a “real” job. As she juggled temp jobs, financial anxiety and a society that resisted making room for her, Butler wrote genre-defining literature that has been adapted for TV and film in recent years, and has continued to go viral nearly two decades after her death in 2006 at 58.

In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler,” author and college professor Susana M. Morris shares the quiet yet radical story of Butler’s life, revealing how the worlds she imagined were shaped by the one that often shut her out.

Butler’s fiction never floated away from reality. It confronted it. And it continues to make readers question what they thought they understood.

On social media, the “ ” trend captures the ominous ways her words resonate in the present on issues like climate change, inequality and politics. Her ability, decades ago, to conjure how we live now gives Morris’ students a feeling of connection to Butler’s work today.

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08/11/2025

Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game.

01/07/2025

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01/06/2025

Demi Moore slayed last night at the Golden Globes. I was so inspired by her red carpet interview, but her acceptance speech blew me away.

A quote from the red carpet interview while talking about her film, “The Substance” and standards of beauty: “The beauty in this is that we all understand that there has been the circumstances of women being marginalized at a certain age… but for me the most captivating part was really the exploration of the violence and harshness we can have against ourselves. Because that is within our power to shift. How we hold ourselves is everything. I feel like the beauty in my experience in this is also the messages being translating to young people.”

In response to the notion that “once you hit age 50 it stops:” “Just because there’s been a collective agreement, that doesn’t make it the truth. The reality is that this idea has existed, we as women have bought into it. And when we change how we hold ourselves, then I think the world will follow.”

11/05/2024

I voted.

04/07/2024

Hello! Yes, please.

02/02/2024

08/09/2023

Gorgeous. Real.

At 56 years old, Halle Berry continues to defy aging stereotypes. The Oscar winner recently took to Instagram to celebrate her natural hair as she rocked an Afro. “Sunday serve…my man loves this. Forward all complaints to him ,” she captioned her post. View this post on Instagram A pos...