Day: November 13, 2019

ImageThe Marie Claire Power Trip is a 36-hour, invite-only networking conference for women that kicks off with a flight from Newark to San Francisco.Credit...Calla Kessler/The New York TimesThe women gathered inside a roped-off area at Newark Liberty International Airport. United Airlines staffers, all of them women, handed out bag tags and boarding passes. When a man approached the counter and presented his I.D. to check in for a flight, he was politely turned away. “Sorry,” a United employee said. “This is a special event.”Marie Claire magazine’s Power Trip, now in its fourth year, is a business conference for women. It's also an endurance exercise. Over the course of 36 hours, maybe five of which are allotted for sleep, 200 entrepreneurs, executives and investors fly cross-country to

TextLeila SackurIn the age of makeover reality shows, the Fab Five’s help is just as individualistic and exclusive as the rest, despite the emotional backstories Netflix’s tagline for its 2018 hit reality show, Queer Eye, is: ‘More than just a makeover.’ The show is all about self-care, which is interpreted for its global audience as DIY grooming, healthy eating, and checking in with yourself. When Audre Lorde, a black lesbian activist, first used the term self-care in A Burst of Light – written after her cancer diagnosis – she was talking about self-preservation as an act of “political warfare”, a prioritising of the self in a world that wants you to die. On Queer Eye, self-care is described by Jonathan Van Ness as, “an inside job” – work you have to do on yourself to be present

You know Kristin Davis for her years of portraying the adorably hopeless romantic Charlotte York in the cult-favorite HBO series Sex and the City. But she’s also the mother of two adopted children and a massive activist for elephants. Davis frequently travels to Africa where she is a global ambassador for Oxfam and the United Nations and makes philanthropy a huge part of her life. She’s also a busy working actress, having recently filmed a Netflix holiday rom-com, Holiday in the Wild, in which she stars opposite Rob Lowe (on Netflix Nov 1).Balancing motherhood, activism and a demanding career is not always easy. And Davis will be the first to admit that unlike her most famous TV character, she doesn’t always have it all together. But she does her best to sneak in some moments of se

People are suffering with mental health issues, publicly calling themselves out and even shaming themselves, all for the sake of a little laugh. This is our current reality: “I hate myself,” says thousands of college students across the nation to the adoration and celebration of those around them. This is raising questions about whether we should accept when others ridicule themselves for the sake of humor and the responses of others. Many others ask whether we should allow people, especially those who are young, in high school and college, to make light of incredibly serious topics. The answer to these questions is yes, we should. When people make fun of themselves, even in a manner that seems so drastic, what they are actually doing is attempting to move forward and improve upo