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  1. PhotoSymone in her home, surrounded by posters and pillows of her idols.
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    Symone Is a Love Letter to Blackness and Queerness

    “I had to learn to love my Blackness,” said the winner of this season's ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’ “I’ve learned to love my queerness. I had to learn to love myself.”

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Scam or Not

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    Is B.M.I. a Scam?

    It can be a helpful health measure for large groups of people, but it won’t tell you much about yourself.

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    Is Air a Scam?

    We love air! But boiling herbs and buying more plants will not improve your indoor air quality. Find out what will.

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    Should I Be Taking Zinc?

    Maybe! It may help with the common cold. There is no definitive scientific evidence suggesting it will help Covid-19.

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Skin Deep

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    Sunscreen Gets a Glow Up

    It’s more fun, but easy to misuse.

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NYT Parenting

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Juneteenth

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    How We Juneteenth

    This year, Juneteenth arrives at a moment of change in the United States. We celebrate, mourn, observe and learn.

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    Rest as Reparations

    If there is a way to heal from trauma, where does one start?

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    This Is How We Juneteenth

    This year, amid protests against police brutality and structural racism toward black Americans, some lean into the joy of tradition as resistance. Others say recognition is not enough.

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Consumption: How we buy, exploit and reuse.

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    Who Made Your Clothes?

    Garment workers around the world make everything from luxury handbags to fast fashion leggings. Here are some of their stories.

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  2. PhotoSpinning yarn inside the DBL factory.
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    H&M’s Different Kind of Clickbait

    The Swedish retailer now lets customers know where nearly every garment it sells is made. Is that enough?

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  3. PhotoDaniel Silverstein of Zero Waste Daniel.
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    The Future Is Trashion

    We make too much and buy too much. But maybe there is a way not to waste too much. The ragpicker of Brooklyn has an idea.

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Style

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    The Year in Limbo

    So much happened in 2021. But did it?

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  2. PhotoMachine Gun Kelly, Sha’Carri Richardson and JoJo Siwa stole the show in their own ways this year.
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    The Year in Stars

    Today’s celebrities found a way to keep shining in a dark year.

    By Danya Issawi and

  3. PhotoHeather Davis and Nick Gray turned to a nontraditional event space, the J.C. Newman Cigar Company in Tampa, Fla., for their Dec. 3 wedding after their first venue, a garden club, double-booked their date.
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    Wedding Venues That Go Beyond the Ballroom

    Many traditional event spaces are overbooked next year, leaving some couples to consider unconventional alternatives for hosting their nuptials.

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Modern Love

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Fashion

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  1. PhotoMembers of the Your Friends in New York cohort: Clockwise from top left, Taofeek Abijako of Head of State; Kethlyn White, the senior director of YFINY; Edvin Thompson of Theophilio; Johnny Nelson of Johnny Nelson Jewelry; and Nigella Miller of AFRA.
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    Meet the Next Big Fashion Group

    Kerby Jean-Raymond has spent the last year and a half secretly trying to change the game for minority designers.

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  2. PhotoRiz Ahmed at the Los Angeles premiere of “Encounter.”
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    Statement Dressing in a Red Carpet Kurta

    “I want to bring all the parts of myself,” Riz Ahmed said of wearing Prada’s version of the traditional garment at the premiere of his new movie.

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The Cycle

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    The Glory (and the Taboo) of ‘WAP’

    All praise Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, whose new song addresses a concern I hear a lot from my patients.

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    Thank God for Judy Blume

    Many people assume that I had a very body-positive upbringing. But like so many women, it was quite the opposite.

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    Dating While Ob-Gyn

    When a romantic prospect learns what I do for a living, things often get interesting. And weird.

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The Look

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  1. PhotoLupita Infante, a musician and resident of the city of Downey, in front of a mural by the artist Don Lamkin.
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    The ‘Mexican Beverly Hills’

    How a former white enclave became an aspirational suburb for Latinos in Los Angeles.

    By June Canedo and

  2. PhotoAn exploration of accumulation in quarantine: Clorox, blenders, origami and fruit.
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    The Comforts of Clutter

    Objects saved and accumulated can be a balm for uncertain times.

    By Leonard Suryajaya and

  3. PhotoTuray Turay and Cat Jones, in a sunbeam.
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    Intimacy in Isolation

    It can be unsettling to be seen. Now I have to see myself.

    By Texas Isaiah and

  4. PhotoJordan Walters, center, with, from left, Joe Mason, Billy Summers and James Treuthardt. All of them are members of the Texas Blazers, a male service organization at the University of Texas at Austin.
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    Black at U.T., and Beyond

    A student set out to document the experiences of his Black classmates on their predominantly white campus. These are some of their stories.

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Rites of Passage

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    My So-Karen Life

    I know Karens are hard. As a member of Gen X, I grew up surrounded by them.

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    Surprise, You Have Early Breast Cancer

    I had no history of cancer in my family. At 41, getting a mammogram was just a thing to check off my to-do list.

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    Call Me Cozy

    As I struggle with chronic pain, cozy for me is less hygge and more my ex-boyfriend’s mother, nurses with juice and weird, sandy doughnuts.

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Runway Fashion Collections

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    Miu Miu: Fall 2020

    See the looks from the Miu Miu: Fall 2020 Collection.

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    Chanel: Fall 2020

    See the looks from the Chanel: Fall 2020 Collection.