CURBED // OCTOBER, 2016
Joanna Gaines is renovating the traditional role of wife/mother.
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CURBED // OCTOBER, 2016
Joanna Gaines is renovating the traditional role of wife/mother.
PARENTS // JULY, 2016
You’ve seen your friends’ posts pitching products, and maybe you’ve thought about joining someone’s “team” to earn money. Before you do, read this.
SLATE // MAY, 2016
Paid family leave doesn’t just support gender equity in the workplace. It may also prevent babies’ deaths.
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE // JULY 7, 2013
At a venerable roadside attraction in the shadow of Disney World, an endangered species is practicing the old secrets of the deep.
MARIE CLAIRE // APRIL, 2011
Deep pore extraction for your facial? A callus mask for your heels? VIrginia Sole-Smith signs up for beauty school and learn how to sell — and dodge — the dreaded sales pitch at the spa.…
NYLON // APRIL, 2011
Virginia Sole-Smith went to beauty school and all she got was this interesting perspective.
SLATE // NOVEMBER, 2010
The $1.8 billion business of hair removal is our most intimate and uncomfortable form of beauty labor.
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
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