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fromScary Mommy
1 day ago

Man Says Galentine's Day Is Made Up For "Single Women" To "Feel Important"

Hot take: I love Galentine's Day way more than Valentine's Day. This could be because my birthday is pretty close to Valentine's Day, so I feel like I always get jipped, or it could be because I just love hanging out with my girlfriends and celebrating female friendship! Either way, Galentine's Day is the best made-up holiday there ever was.
Women
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Extra Geography review a sweet and spiky coming-of-age debut

Extra Geography vividly maps an intense, textured adolescent female friendship and its fragile unraveling amid boarding-school intimacy and Oxbridge ambition.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray review friends, lovers or something in between?

A complex, humorous portrayal of a lifelong relationship between two women, tracing childhood friendship, betrayal, queer awakening, co-parenting, and mysterious absence.
Television
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Ponies Is for the Besties

Ponies is a 1970s Moscow spy series that succeeds as a gratifying best-friends show due to Clarke and Richardson's undeniable chemistry despite incoherent plotting.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"Waiting to Exhale," Thirty Years On

Waiting to Exhale (1995) became a sociological phenomenon and exemplifies the chick-flick's emotional sophistication, exploring female friendship, transformation, grief, and resilience.
Relationships
fromMail Online
1 month ago

The average close female friendship lasts 37 YEARS, study reveals

Close female friendships average 37 years, often originate in childhood, and provide long-term emotional support and joy for many women.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

All Our Brilliant Friends

The Neapolitan Quartet chronicles Lila and Elena's intense friendship and grew from a doubted Italian import into a beloved, influential phenomenon in American literary life.
fromBustle
3 months ago

The Feminist Pop Culture Icons That Inspired The Minds Behind 'Liberation'

It tells the story of a daughter trying to find answers about her mother's life as a way of trying to understand her own life,
Women
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

The Safe Space of "Good Hang with Amy Poehler"

Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast "Good Hang with Amy Poehler," certainly encourages that impression. It's perhaps her biggest platform since the hit series "Parks and Recreation," in which she played the idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope, went off the air a decade ago. And while many of her former co-stars have branched out into new territory- Aziz Ansari by reinventing himself as a melancholy romantic in "Master of None,"
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad review a delicious follow-up to Bunny

Sequel centers on Samantha and the Bunnies, a satirical, horror-inflected exploration of upper-middle-class feminine narcissism and creative rivalry at an Ivy League.
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