A one-woman newsroom, 185 stories, and more than 20,000 women who refused to disappear—here’s what we built together in our first year, and our plan to get even louder in the next. To our readers, One year ago, PROVOKED was a seed born out of frustration that I...
Who I Was, Who I Became, Who I Am Now Last Christmas nearly broke me. It was the first holiday season in my adult life that my daughter wasn’t with us for the holidays. She and her new husband were taking their honeymoon over Christmas, and the announcement hit me...
Everything our team recommends when the clock is ticking—but thoughtfulness still counts.There’s a particular kind of panic that sets in when the calendar says “oops” and your gift list says “good luck.” But last-minute shopping doesn’t have to mean last-minute...
The real threat to the workplace isn’t women—it’s the panic that comes when power gets shared. Here’s what The New York Times got dead wrong. Once again, mainstream media can’t stand it when women call bullsh*t on the status quo. Two weeks ago, I watched the scene...
“Diane Keaton, arguably the most covered-up person in the history of clothes, is also a transparent woman. There’s nobody who stands more exposed, more undefended, and just willing to show herself inside and out, than Diane.”— Meryl Streep, AFI Lifetime Achievement...
A boomer who tried; a millennial who calls out the lie. “'Having it all’ is a lie,” my daughter told me, eight months pregnant and still working at her desk. She’s a banker. I’m a boomer. We had the conversation my generation was too polite to have. The women in her...
To survive the algorithmic age, women must wield every lesson from feminism’s past waves and refuse erasure. When our grandmothers marched for the vote in the early 20th century, they weren’t simply demanding a ballot. They were demanding to be seen in a system...
Women over 50 have been the world’s unpaid goodwill economy. Here's how to start collecting. Payback is a b*tch, and honestly? So is being told to "pay it forward" when women have already been paying out like human ATMs for decades. American women perform nearly 76...
Honest answers not welcome. A community where taste becomes "toxic," and flattery is the only safe answer. No wonder we're exhausted. Last week, in a Facebook group of 20,000 women, a single mirror selfie asking “Which dress should I wear?” spiraled from style advice...
From scream queen to truth-teller, Curtis has turned sobriety, gray hair, and rage into power. It was the 2023 Oscars. Jamie Lee Curtis at 64, silver-white cropped hair blazing like a battle flag. Thankful, manic, sobbing into the mic as only she could. Statue in...