The countryside seemed fantastically vivid. The blackbirds looked as beautiful as anything I had seen before. I watched one, like a dash of ink, flickering against the mottled grey sky,

whatever happens to be the latest term for pathologising your life experience. Everything is flattened, simplified. I worried that being immersed in it was making me think this way too.

i now remember what it is like to be in 8th grade, comparing yourself to all of the other girls, everyone at different stages of puberty and maturity. some are the youngest and some are the oldest, experiencing the world for the first time vs. having seen it through the eyes of older siblings. small things can be isolating, and big things can feel ... See more

because I think that having NDAs for being abused is just ridiculous.

“When we have gone to Albany and spoken with lawmakers about how the industry works, the lawmakers’ jaws drop to the floor. They're shocked about what is normalized.”

This financial exploitation, Ziff argued, leads to sexual exploitation. “There's a long history of models being sent to known predators by their agents. Bill Cosby, for example,” she s... See more

“When we have gone to Albany and spoken with lawmakers about how the industry works, the lawmakers’ jaws drop to the floor. They're shocked about what is normalized.”

This financial exploitation, Ziff argued, leads to sexual exploitation.

In the three or four decades that millennials like me have been alive, young people have been reckoning with the brutal truth that democracy works for the few, not the many. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, quality of life declined for the most of us while the billionaires got richer. At the same time, politicians have been sacrifi... See more

She had left her home country of Italy after speaking out against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Her agent there had sent her to one of his “Bunga Bunga” parties in 2010, and she became a witness against him when he was tried for abuse of power and having sex with a minor.