FASHION Magazine
-
Roe v. Wade and Fashion’s Fight for Freedom
In many ways, designers are signalling the dawn of a new age. Dopamine dressing, the metaverse, gender fluid clothing and other trends have liberated fashion from its stuffy traditions. But the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has turned back the clock to a time when few people had such bodily autonomy. The U.S. Supreme Court […]
The post Roe v. Wade and Fashion’s Fight for Freedom appeared first on FASHION Magazine.
-
The Far-Reaching Effects of Texas’s New Abortion Law
On September 1, the American state of Texas effectively banned abortions. The state enacted a new law, called Senate Bill 8, that prohibits abortions once a heartbeat is detected in a fetus. This can happen as early as six weeks — often before people even know that they are pregnant. According to Planned Parenthood, approximately […]
The post The Far-Reaching Effects of Texas’s New Abortion Law appeared first on FASHION Magazine.
-
Dear White People’s Antoinette Robertson On What It Means To Be A Black Woman At the Centre Of An Abortion Narrative
Dear White People’s Coco Connors is the the kind of role young actresses dream of landing—and she’s the the kind of self-assured, powerful woman we all aspire to be. She’s classy, ambitious, calculated and complex. She has everything figured out: with a meticulously mapped-out path to self-made success, Coco is set to become the break […]
The post <em>Dear White People’</em>s Antoinette Robertson On What It Means To Be A Black Woman At the Centre Of An Abortion Narrative appeared first on FASHION Magazine.
-
Girls Recap: In the second episode problems are solved in magical ways that can only happen on TV
Last week we met the girls of Girls. This week, they’re the “ladies” according to Shoshanna’s self-help dating manual, but mostly we’d just call them clueless. Not in a Dumb and Dumber way where they’re idiots, but in a way that kind of makes us sad. Have you ever heard the Four Burners Theory of success? One burner represents your family, the second is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work—to be successful you have to turn one off, and to be really successful you have to turn off two. Well, never mind turning off a burner, at best these girls barely have two turned on! Speaking of getting turned on, there’s not much of that happening this week: sex isn’t bringing any of these girls happiness—so let’s see which problems prompt the girls to camp out at a SoHo health clinic.