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Amina Akhtar is one of the original digital fashion editors. She was the founding editor of New York Magazine’s fashion vertical The Cut, and she’s also worked at Vogue, Elle.com, and Style.com (RIP).

One day, a friend of mine joked that a true test of friendship is the person who visits you in the hospital when you’re in a coma to pluck all your errant facial hairs. (This conversation was pre-Covid. It obviously feels darker now.)

Missy Robbins is a Michelin-starred chef, and the owner of Brooklyn restaurants Lilia and Misi. She won the James Beard award in 2018 for “Best Chef New York City.”

“So, you’re moving to…Baltimore? Every time I tell friends that my boyfriend of eight months has moved back home after 13 years in Europe, they look at me quizzically and ask me that very question.

For years I watched my 40- and 50-something friends pull out their reading glasses to read menus, their phones, and the small print on beauty packaging. I

Criticism by young LGBTQ activists in recent years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (turning 46 this month) has made me realize just how different being a young trans person is today compared to when I was growing up.

N. is in her late 30s and lives in the New York City area with her husband and two kids. After having a baby during the pandemic, her entire family came down with Covid. This is her anonymous story.

A dermatologist weighs in on microneedling, microcurrent, and LED light masking.

Coming of age in the ‘80s and ‘90s meant absorbing confounding, often contradictory, advice on how to avoid sexual assault — particularly at college.

Salad was the last straw. Typically, I’d eat one for lunch — the bigger the salad, the better. But these days, salad and my stomach are not the friends that they used to be.

It’s hard to decide if this is a primal pull, just human hormones, or if it’s a thing that I actually want to do.

by Karen Russo Perimenopause, meaning “around menopause,” is nature’s allegedly gentle fade to the end of women’s menstrual cycle. But the vagueness around “around” is confusing, and the transition is often anything but gentle. Not too long ago, when I thought about menopause, I recalled watching movies where women stick their heads into refrigerators to…