More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

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Zahra Hankir Explores the Cosmetic’s Relationship with Beauty, Power and Spirituality

By Zahra Hankir | December 5, 2023

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader on RBG's Decision to Buck the Supreme Court's Sartorial Traditions

By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader | November 13, 2023

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

A Look at Patricia Highsmith, Norman Mailer, Gary Shteyngart, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and More

By Dwight Garner | October 25, 2023

How the Humble Pocket Came to Signify Feminist Liberation

How the Humble Pocket Came to Signify Feminist Liberation

Hannah Carlson Explores the History of Women's Pockets

By Hannah Carlson | September 12, 2023

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Claudia Cravens on What Clothes Tell Us About Character

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Kate Strasdin Talks Fashion, Fabric, and Femininity in 19th-Century England

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How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

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The Raw and the Refined: On the Origins and Making of Peru Balsam

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On QAnon and the Toxic Longing to Be Part of Something As a Mom

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