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- Real Men Wear Skirts, Too
Harry Styles was the first solo man to be featured on Vogue's cover, and he did it in a dress. Predictably, the internet had a lot to say. Raizel and Ms. Huq sit down to chat about men in dresses, the "feminization" of so-called "male ideals," and how gender is a construct anyway so can we just, like, chill about Harry Styles in a dress?
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6 min - Fox Eyes, TikTok, and Who Belongs in BLM
Backlash against the fox-eye trend on TikTok takes Raizel and Ms. Huq down the road of POC on POC hate. Also, Raizel plugs her recent interview in The 74 Million ('WAP' and Sex Ed: How the Billboard-Topping Track is 'Making Conversations about Sexual Health Less Taboo').
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9 min - Beauty Standards Are Trash
Once upon a time, One Direction came out with "That's What Makes You Beautiful" but society had different thoughts on that, so here we are to talk beauty standards, how curly hair makes us witches, and how Lara Jean should have ended up with John Ambrose.
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9 min - So You Think I'm Fat
Raizel and Ms. Huq sit down at Raizel's kitchen counter to talk fatphobia, being the fat ugly friend of the friend group, and handling men who want to call you fat because they can't take no for an answer.
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9 min - Mind Your Business
Got opinions on how a woman should dress? Think it's your place to get between a woman and her uterus? Raizel and Ms. Huq have a lot of thoughts that they'd like to share.
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7 min - Talking About Self-Hate While Also Eating Dunkin'
Caroline and Raizel eat Dunkin' and talk about internalized misogyny while their chauffeur Ms. Huq drives them around Inwood on a Saturday afternoon.
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7 min - Euphoria Is Not What You Want
TV show Euphoria is giving some teens the entirely wrong message about mental illness, and Raizel and Caroline are having none of it.
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6 min - Bonus Episode: This Shouldn't Be Normal
We start off talking about the pervasiveness of street harassment and end with the normalization of violence against women. Warning: We do discuss sexual assault and violence against women. May not be suitable for children under 13.
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25 min - Our Future, Your Hands
We are one week away from the most pivotal election of our lifetime, and we have some thoughts.
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13 min - Leave Him In The Back Of Your Imagination
In which Raizel roasts Ms. Huq for her Harry Potter tattoo, and Ms. Huq roasts Raizel back for being a former Shane Dawson stan.
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About Sssh! Periods
From the publisher's feed
The ladies of Bronx Prep Middle School have a lot of feelings about getting their periods, and they're not shy. Share in their struggle, laugh at their creative ways of getting a pad in the middle of…
writing class, and commiserate with the woes of puberty.