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5 Black Female Founders Celebrating Black Culture and Identity Through their Work

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The Black Lives Matter movement has brought many deep-rooted societal issues to the surface not least of all, how under-represented, under-searched and under-funded Black people’s work, creativity, and businesses are. In 2018, Dell Gines authored a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kanasas City where he drew on a famous quote by Reid Hoffman, …

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We Got Ninety-Nine Problems, but a Girlboss Ain’t One

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Is the girlboss out? Three years ago, Britt Robertson graced our screens for a single season as Sophia Amoruso in Netflix’s widely criticized, Girlboss. The series, based on Amoruso’s book of the same name, about the meteoric rise of her apparel brand Nasty Gal, led to mainstreaming of the #girlboss. Over the last few weeks, …

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You Look Familiar — “Instagram Face” and the Deracialization of Beauty

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Is “Instagram Face” deracializing human faces? A few months ago, I read an article by Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker titled The Age of Instagram Face. The article talked about the ever-emerging “one-face fits all” on Instagram and the continuous quest for sameness through plastic surgery. It essentially highlighted how Instagram and various facial …

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You Can’t Take the Fight Out of the Girl – A Conversation with ex-MMA Champion and Pan Am Gold Medalist, Gemma Sheehan

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Ex MMA champion and Pan Am gold medalist, Gemma Sheehan teaches girls how to fight. Yes, you read that correctly. An ex-MMA champion, Canadian Pan-Am gold medalist for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the founder of Girls Who Fight, Gemma is a fighter in every sense of the word. We caught up to talk about her journey …

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There’s No Place Like Home — with Mary Taggart, Editor-in-Chief of Ottawa At Home Magazine

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If there is anyone who understands the importance of home, it is Mary Taggart, Editor-in-Chief of Ottawa At Home Magazine. As head of the Ottawa based décor and lifestyle magazine’s editorial team, she has earned a reputation for her creativity, decorating talent and charity work. At a time when the publishing industry was severely disrupted …

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