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Why Are We So Scared to Look Older?
A stock photo causes a stir.
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The Gap Is Back—Here’s Everything We Need for Spring
Though our writer thinks maybe it never went away.

Turning 50 Was a Bitch, But Now I’m a Lot Less of One
It was my birthday, and oh yes, I wanted to cry about it.

Tastes Like Home: Keeping My Culture Alive Through Cooking
My grandmother’s recipe book belongs to me, her food belonged to everyone who loved her.

The Great Unveiling: Ankles, Collarbones, and Other Spring Fashion Debuts
Is it time to show a liittttle bit of skin?

My Geriatric Pregnancy Was a Constant Fight for Control Over My Body
Navigating a patriarchal medical system as a pregnant at 42 year old deeply changed something in me.

Claudia from ‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’: My Asian-American Role Model, Then, Now and 4-Eva
Even though she didn’t have the words for it in the ’80s, our writer deeply felt how much representation mattered.






