Zohran may be the newly historic mayor, but Mira Nair has spent decades shaping the world through film, storytelling, and a radical belief in visibility. Her 34-year-old son was inaugurated as New York City’s first Muslim, South Asian, and African-born mayor on New...
We grew up loving it. But watching it now, with decades of distance, reveals just how much we’ve changed—and how much the culture around us needed to. When I first saw The Breakfast Club at my local theater in 1985, I sat through two back-to-back screenings. My...
We asked 21 women how much emotional labor they shoulder for their partners. The answers? Frustrated, funny, and sobering. Your partner has three friends: a college roommate he hasn’t called in a year, his brother, and you. Guess who’s carrying the weight? If this...
The directors of the new HBO documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print talk about the magazine’s storied history and why its “consciousness-raising” is needed now—more than ever. “Try to imagine a life where you are owned by or controlled by the men in your life.”...
Middle-Aged Women Get Their Young Lovers on Screen, But They Deserve So Much More In Amazon Prime’s The Idea of You, a 40-year-old single mom falls for a 24-year-old boy-band idol. And the internet loses its mind. She’s called a cougar, a stalker, the “sleaziest mom...