Visits: 25 Paying an unexpected price for a novelty crown. It is early April, in the evening. I’m walking through Times Square on my way to a birthday dinner at a restaurant I’ve never been to. As I weave through …
Being a Woman in Magic May be the Hardest Trick of All
Visits: 42 Though it was nearly five decades ago, Gay Blackstone can still vividly recall the first time she was sawed in half onstage. Her screams were an intended element of the illusion, but nerves and fear made them genuine …
Place to Sit, or Symbol of Resistance? The Evolution of the Folding Chair.
Visits: 42 It figured prominently in viral footage of a brawl, where it was used as a blunt instrument. So why is the humble folding chair now turning up on T-shirts, earrings and at least one tattoo? Within hours of …
Love Letter: A Second Skin to Escape Racism
Visits: 29 Tired of encountering overt racism while dating, a Korean American man finds liberation in latex. “On gay dating apps, East Asians routinely face dehumanization that reduces us to nothing more than featureless clones in the eyes of others,” …
Love Letter: Never Inevitable
Visits: 23 “Like many women, I have been routinely harassed simply for looking the way I look, my boundaries violated both physically and sexually.” When Ariella Steinhorn was 15, a group of teenage boys tackled her at a bus stop. …
A Pakistani Artist Reimagines Her Relationship With Shame and Bodies
Visits: 24 With body castings of anonymized Pakistani women that resemble oxidized copper statues, Misha Japanwala hopes to create a time capsule of resisting gender violence for her new gallery show. Misha Japanwala looked around her studio in the week …
The Return of Justin Jones and the White Suit
Visits: 30 The Tennessee lawmaker has become a viral symbol. Once again the white suit rears its powerfully symbolic head. There are few garments in the political wardrobe that have been worn so deliberately and become as imbued with meaning. …
Don Lemon, Nikki Haley and the Lessons of a Hoodie
Visits: 24 The CNN anchor should have known there is a fine line between showing some personality and things getting personal. Don Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter …
Serena Williams’s Fashion Smash
Visits: 22 When Serena Williams steps out onto the hard courts of the U.S. Open on Monday for what may be her last tournament, she will do so in a little black (tennis) dress with long sheer sleeves, a six-layer …
Edward Enninful Also Wears Prada
Visits: 23 LONDON — Edward Enninful, the editor of British Vogue, gave me a list of friends to contact for this article. It’s a very impressive list, I told him when we had coffee in the kitchen of his London …