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16 Jan

Actress Aisha Hinds Is A Married Woman! See Footage

Actress Aisha Hinds Is A Married Woman! See Footage
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hinds Feet for High Places/ Walker by Faith (@appleofhisai) It’s giving Black love! Actress Aisha Hinds and her longtime partner Silky Valente got married this past weekend, doing so in an epic way in front of a star-studded guest list on the Isle of Spice — saying “I do” in St. George’s, Grenada. (The star’s parents are each from Grenada.) The 9-1-1 star got engaged to Valente, who works in health care (and whose last name is definitely Walker), in November 2020. She told ESSENCE in 2021, “He completely surprised me.” He popped...
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15 Jan

2022 was the 12 months of the ‘bad woman’

2022 was the 12 months of the ‘bad woman’
From Amber Heard to Megan Thee Stallion and Sally McNeil, this 12 months has proved that society’s views on women are still backwards, constrictive, and built on binary pondering In 1996, skilled bodybuilder Sally McNeil was convicted of second-degree murder after she shot and killed her husband, competitive bodybuilder Ray McNeil.  Their relationship and the trial were the themes of Netflix’s latest true crime docuseries, Killer Sally, released in November. Within the documentary, Sally (now 62) explained that throughout their six-year relationship, she was subjected to emotional, physical and sexual abuse by the hands of Ray, which only increased when he began taking steroids to compete in bodybuilding competitions. To this present day,...
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27 Dec

The photographer finding strength in being an ‘unlikeable’ woman

The photographer finding strength in being an ‘unlikeable’ woman
Millicent Hailes is an unlikeable woman. “I don’t quite fit into small, quiet, sometimes invisible spaces anymore. I'm going beyond where a likeable woman should go,” she says. A creative director based between LA and London, Hailes has spent the last decade cleaving at the perimeters of up to date womanhood – borders that, she believes, are less permeable than culture might let on. Since graduating from LCF in 2012, Hailes has turned her hand to photography and filmmaking, collaborating with a few of pop’s most recognisable protagonists – Billie Eilish, Dorian Electra, Migos, and Young Thug – while her personal work supplants staid notions of desire and acceptability via strip clubs and feminine bodybuilders.  Last yr, Hailes funnelled these ideas...
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