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19 Apr

Aliza Licht Launches Her Recent Book, ‘On Brand,’ Outside

Aliza Licht Launches Her Recent Book, ‘On Brand,’ Outside
Friends, colleagues and family got here out Tuesday afternoon to assist launch Aliza Licht’s latest book, “On Brand: Shape Your Narrative. Share Your Vision. Shift Their Perception.” A large image of the book’s cover was projected over the Nasdaq billboard on the corner of forty third Street and Broadway. Amongst those gathered on the road corner were Jill Kargman, Lydia Fenet, Patti Cohen, Anne Keating, Mickey Boardman, Sophia Chabbott, Darcy Miller, and Kimry Blackwelder. The bestselling writer of “Leave Your Mark,” Licht shares her insider strategies for developing a private brand to make sure that one’s name gets dropped in the suitable rooms and that folks know the worth one might add. As Licht explained, a well-defined personal brand can secure skilled...
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8 Apr

A24 Releases ‘Euphoria Fashion’ Book With Heidi Bivens

A24 Releases ‘Euphoria Fashion’ Book With Heidi Bivens
While audiences eagerly anticipate a 3rd season of “Euphoria,” A24 is offering fans a more in-depth take a look at the costumes which have helped establish the series as a cultural talking point. The production company and costume designer Heidi Bivens have commemorated the show’s impact on fashion with the discharge of “Euphoria Fashion,” a coffee table book, which was released Tuesday.  Along with appealing to “Euphoria” fans, the book serves as an insider’s guide to the creative process that goes into constructing the visual language of onscreen characters. “Hopefully it is going to encourage individuals who perhaps hadn’t thought of costumes before to explore that as a occupation,” Bivens says.  The book features interviews between Bivens and solid members including Zendaya,...
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31 Jan

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals “I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing...
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31 Dec

Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of

Scholar Sami Schalk Seeks To Merge The Worlds Of
In her newest book, Black Disability Politics, Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies on the University of Wisconsin-Madison discusses the parallels between racial activism and advocacy for those with disabilities. Relying heavily on research, the book partners the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Project with interviews of present day Black disabled cultural staff. ESSENCE recently spoke with Schalk about her book, set for release October 31, and the role that systemic oppression plays in disability politics. For many who may not have familiarity with Black disability politics, are you able to define what it's? SAMI SCHALK (SS): I define disability politics generally as engagement with disability as a social and political issue...
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