Super-feminist Priyanka Chopra Goes Lip Gloss Only For Allure, Has Choice Words For Women

Self-identifying 'super feminist' Priyanka Chopra covers Allure magazine's first digital cover package with a strong message to women about the need to change how they view themselves. 

Posing on the Greenpoint waterfront in Brooklyn, Chopra's only makeup was moisturizer and lip gloss, hoping to extend the conversation about how beauty impacts identity. 

“A lot of the things media has perpetuated have created false standards around beauty. People that have not grown up seeing themselves in the space have a harder time accessing self love and acceptance. That's something we really push,” Allure's digital editorial director Kelly Bales tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It's been a huge mission for Allure — how can we right some of these wrongs of the past, re-educate both ourselves and our audience to have a larger scope of what we consider beautiful?”

Chopra discusses how women have been conditioned to think about the need to constantly change themselves. "We’ve always been treated as second-class citizens. We’ve always been told that only one of us can win and only the best one will get the cutest boy … Can we for a second love ourselves and say ‘I do not need all of these magazines to tell me to how to lose the weight or how should I starve because I want to please a man?’”

Donors Fund More Than 200,000 Student Subscriptions To The New York Times In 2 Weeks

On Feb. 9, the NYT launched a new program in which interested donors can fund a digital subscription for a student. To expand the reach, the NYT then offers a one-for-one match for every donor subscription.
Two weeks in, and the total amount of contributions, which have ranged on the individual level from $4 to $20,000, have been enough to support digital subscription for 209,000 students since the launch. The figure is inclusive of those subscriptions matched by the Times. ~ Anne

You can sponsor a student subscription here.

Fact vs Fiction: TV Distorts the Reality Of Abortion Health Care, Making It A Luxury For White Women

Fact vs Fiction: TV Distorts the Reality Of Abortion Health Care, Making It A Luxury For White Women

Self-Centered White Women, AKA Feminists

While the study researcher Gretchen Sisson didn't specifically link 'feminism' to the abortion study narrative, she did tell NPR that TV helps "build an interesting social myth, which is that women who get abortions aren't mothers and they don't want to be mothers." The facts of abortion on a wide scale are that "the majority of women getting abortions are already parenting, and the vast majority intend to parent during their lives."

Television characters seeking abortions are depicted as doing no because having a child would interfere with educational or career plans, fueling the mythology of the fabricated, feminist first mentality of women who embrace women's rights and self-actualization.

"Taken together, this pattern of reasons can contribute to the construction of abortion as a self-focused decision, and to the belief that abortions are 'wanted' because of personal desires rather than 'needed' because of circumstances such as poverty," the researchers say in their report on TV depictions." Sisson explains.

In a distortion of facts, about 10% of TV characters die from their abortions, when the real death rate is 0.0015 percent -- or nothing. Republicans and the abortions rights movement has used the ruse of protecting women's health to justify the extreme medical safety requirements placed on abortion facilities in the US.

Hillary Clinton's CNN Brianna Keilar Interview | Women Leaders At Aspen Institute | Women's Soccer $$$ Discriminate | 300 Child Brides Freed In Malawi

Hillary Clinton’s CNN Brianna Keilar Interview | Women Leaders At Aspen Institute |
Women’s Soccer $$$ Discriminate | 300 Child Brides Freed In Malawi
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Anne is reading …

1. After a disastrous Independence Day photo op gone wrong, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will give her first national TV interview since announcing her presidential candidacy in April.

CNN will air the interview conducted by Brianna Keilar today Tuesday July 7th. Relations between Hillary Clinton and the national press have always been strained, but they reached new levels of strain on Saturday, when Clinton aides literally herded reporters through the streets of Gorham, NH’s Fourth of July parade.

2. America’s women’s soccer team returned home from Vancouver victorious as world champions but seriously underpaid.

3. The Aspen Institute shares great ideas from women who lead, in an exciting presentation of 3-4 minute personal challenges from their recent Aspen Ideas Festival.

4. In Malawi, senior Chief Inkosi Kachindamoto, a woman, annulled over 300 child marriages, saying that for both boys and girls, children should be in school.

5. Writing for Forbes, Carrie Rich of YEC Women, says that ‘Creating Change For Female Leaders Starts With Individual Support’.

Eye | Meryl Streep Launches ERA Campaign | Michelle Obama Guest Edits More | Arianna Huffington In The Spotlight

Anne is reading …

Arianna at the Huff Post Helm

Arianna Huffington’s Improbable, Insatiable Content MachineNYTimes Magazine

Today, The Huffington Post employs an armada of young editors, writers and video producers: 850 in all, many toiling at an exhausting pace. It publishes 13 editions across the globe, including sites in India, Germany and Brazil. Its properties collectively push out about 1,900 posts per day. In 2013, Digiday estimated that BuzzFeed, by contrast, was putting out 373 posts per day, The Times 350 per day and Slate 60 per day. (At the time, The Huffington Post was publishing 1,200 posts per day.) Four more editions are in the works — The Huffington Post China among them — and a franchising model will soon take the brand to small and midsize markets, according to an internal memo Huffington sent in late May.

Since its founding, Huff Po has depended on free labor, understanding that if you give bloggers a big enough platform, you don’t need to pay them.

Audrey Hepburn in London

Audrey Hepburn photographed wearing Givenchy by Norman Parkinson, 1955. © Norman Parkinson Ltd./Courtesy of Norman Parkinson Archive.This Audrey Hepburn Exhibition Is Like Pinterest In Real LifeVanity Fair

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon’ is now open through October 18 at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Some of the biggest names in photography lensed Audrey Hepburn: Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean, Irving Penn and Norman Parkinson. Mark Shaw was asked to shoot a photo essay about Hepburn for Life Magazine in 1953, was granted unprecedented access to Hepburn, who was filming Sabrina at the time. Exhibition portraits show her in many of her most famous roles – another cover for Life magazine, swathed in Givenchy as Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

While Hepburn took up humanitarian work during the 1950s, she became a global ambassador for UNICEF in the 80s. Naturally bilingual in English and Dutch, Hepburn also spoke fluent French, Italian, Spanish, and German as she travelled to the poorest and most disadvantaged areas of the world to support aid projects. Hepburn was one of the first mega celebrities to leverage her fame and following on behalf of the UN.

Meryl Streep Petitions Congress for ERA

Meryl Streep receiving Medal of Freedom award from President Barack Obama in 2014.Hollywood mega actor Meryl Streep sent letters to all 535 members of Congress in late June, petitioning them to revive the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

“I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality – for your mother, your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself – by actively supporting the Equal Rights Amendment,” Streep wrote in the letter.

Each letter was accompanied by a copy of ‘Equal Means Equal’, a book by president of the ERA Coalition Jessica Neuwirth.

The essence of the ERA is simple, written in 1920, is simple: “Equality rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

It took over 50 years for Congress to finally ratify the ERA in 1972. As the amendment moved towards final passage — passing in 35 of the required 38 states, the infamous Phyllis Schlafly hit the road to stop its final passage.

The actress also noted that the United States has encouraged countries like Afghanistan to include women’s rights into their constitutions, yet America doesn’t “have it in our own,” according to The Washington Post

“For the first time, we have the expectation that we can have a broad array of choices, that we could lead in almost any part of society,” said Streep, who we spotted in DC last February. “And yet we face resistance. … How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening?”

First Lady Michelle Obama is interviewed by Meryl Streep in the July/August issue of More magazine. Streep is attached to an in development anti-NRA movie with producer Harvey Weinstein called ‘The Senators’ Wife’ — a clear reason for the actor to be in DC.

It’s equally likely that she was in town to interview First Lady Michelle Obama for the July/August issue of MORE Magazine, with FLOTUS serving as guest editor.

MORE highlights the critical role that mothering played in unleashing the skills of both women by reminding them constantly that they could be whatever they chose to be in life.

AOC has long stood for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Read on:

Sign Our Petition in Support of an Equal Rights Amendment AOC Salon

Surveys suggest that the vast majority of Americans aren’t refusing to accept the ERA — no matter what right-wing zealots tell us. If reality, most United States citizens believe that women do have equal protection under the law. Boy are they wrong!!! Not only do women NOT have equal protection under the law, but Republicans in Congress are hell-bent on turning back the rights that women have won in the last 40 years.

Nomi Leasure On Why America Needs An Equal Rights AmendmentAOC Salon