A crass elder, whose stripper name was Tanqueray, has Hollywood taking notice after a popular photoblog, Humans of New York, shared a series of her stories this week. Her tales of “making costumes for strippers and porn stars in Times Square” while at FIT has...
Hair sculptor Laetitia Ky creates gravity-defying hair art. In the Ivory Coast of West Africa, Ky’s craft was originally inspired by photographs of women in pre-colonial Africa wearing their traditional hairstyles. Natural, afro-textured hair is often politicized — But in Ky’s work it becomes a...
Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a village in western Russia. As a young woman, she worked in a textile mill and parachuted as a hobby. It was her parachuting experience that led to her being chosen, in 1962, for...
Simone Biles can fly. Until it’s proven otherwise, I will remain convinced. There’s too much evidence it’s true, that Biles can really fly, or at least vault into the air and remain there, briefly, magically, like no one’s ever done. That’s just the half of...
"I wasn't expecting that from you" An 18-year-old hip-hop dancer is fighting the misconception that plus-sized people can't dance...
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