NEW YORK (AP): Model and activist Emily Ratajkowski has a book deal. “EmRata”, as her millions of online followers know her, is working on an essay collection called My Body. Metropolitan Books will publish it in 2022. According to Metropolitan, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, Ratajkowski will explore “what it means to be …
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Wednesday’s Nobel Prize in chemistry was a historic first for women. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the chemistry prize for developing the CRISPR method of genome editing making it the first time a Nobel science prize was given to more than one woman, but no men, in a specific category. This has happened 169 times for multiple men and …
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NEW YORK (AP): With help from Lizzo, Travis Scott, Rosalia and some of the biggest names in modelling, Rihanna said she decided to forge ahead with a new digital-only Savage X Fenty lingerie show to bring something good into a troubled world. Insofar as well-priced intimates in a broad range of sizes can achieve that …
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Shasha-Marie Williams could have been a pregnant teen, because that was the norm in Flankers, St James, where she grew up; while Shellian Blagrove was expected to scorn her problem-plagued community of Mt Salem. Their friends – Thejasree Pulikanti wanted nothing else but to follow in her parents’ footsteps; Marla Kay Richards, a country girl, …
Imagine your doubt and fear ringing true when you discover that you have breast cancer. It’s ‘Pinktober’ so we’re kicking off the awareness month by sharing the life-changing story of Chelan Smith and her beauty in the face of this battle. Magnetic by nature, elegant and eloquent, she struts with an air of confidence, exuding …
Last week Dr Keith Rowley, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, said unless there is a dramatic turn of events regarding COVID-19, carnival ova deh nah keep. Now, let us take a good, long look at this statement. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is THE carnival for the Caribbean. Jamaica and Barbados et al nuh badda …
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” This profound sentiment expressed by English poet William Congreve is often reflected in matters pertaining to love, specifically that of heartbreak. Welcome to Flair-fessional, where women share their experiences and grievances anonymously and honestly. This week’s question: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to a man …
‘End delays from the bench! – Bar Association calls on judges to speedily hand down judgments’ was the caption of an article published by The Gleaner on May 12, 2016. At that time, the Jamaican Bar Association had delivered a letter to the then chief justice concerning lengthy delays in the delivery of judgments in …
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Chrissy Teigen said she and John Legend are in “deep pain” following her miscarriage, which she announced on social media early Thursday. Teigen wrote that they were “driving home from the hospital with no baby. This is unreal.” “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain …
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LOS ANGELES (AP): Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78. Reddy’s children Traci and Jordan announced that the actor-singer died Tuesday in Los Angeles. “She was a wonderful mother, grandmother and a truly …
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