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close story-meta Photo Melania Trump at the second presidential debate on Sunday. Credit Rick Wilking/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images It was a relief to see Melania Trump at the St. Louis debate. I was worried that the svelte Slovenian had gone into witness protection. Or that she was cloistered at a spa in the Swiss…
close story-meta-footer Photo Credit Monica Ramos When I was 21, I underwent breast reduction surgery, reducing my embarrassingly large chest to something that could at least fit inside a cardigan. Although there was some medical rationale for the procedure, the overwhelming reason was that I was sick and tired of every man on the planet…
Mr. Valls, in an interview published Wednesday in La Provence, the daily newspaper in Marseille, called the burkini part of a “political project” to enslave women. Laurence Rossignol, a feminist and the Socialist minister for families, children and women’s rights, called the burkini “profoundly archaic” and “not just a new kind of bathing attire,” but…
These stories do not reflect my life, nor the lives of most of the queer women I know. But life has a frightening tendency to imitate art. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that 2015 had the highest levels of violence against the L.G.B.T. community since 2011, the most frequent victims being transgender women…