Culture - The Persistent (Page 3)

Pamela Anderson, with a flicked-out blonde bob and little makeup, wears a navy top with a jewelled brooch.

Great Women

The Dignified Revenge of Pamela Denise Anderson

Pamela is not the sum of her scandals or the product of her movie credits. Her latest ‘rebirth’ is just Pamela, once again, being herself.

Illustration of a man cooking at a stove while a woman works at her laptop.

Relationships

The Day I Walked Out of The Kitchen

My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.

Theatre

‘I Couldn’t Stay Away’

A reenactment of the Dominique Pelicot trial takes on a life of its own, becoming as real as the trial itself.

Sport

‘Equally Valued, Visible and Paid’

The UN human rights chief calls on countries to do more to dismantle gender-based barriers faced by women athletes.

A cartoon of a woman running with a backpack on. She is being watched by people, staring down at her.

Art and Design

The Labels We Carry

Sometimes how you feel on the inside vs. what people see on the outside doesn't match up at all.

A watercolor painting of Margo Selby (left) and Helen Caddick (right), the creators of "Moon Landing"

The Interview

‘The Chaotic, the Creative, the Instinctive, the Structured, the Mathematical’

An immersive project at Canterbury Cathedral marks the 1969 moon landing—and the women from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico who made that landing possible.

Pieces of torn-up paper with the lines of a poem on them are scattered on a teal background.

Culture

I've Been Thinking About Creativity All Wrong. Perhaps You Have Too.

Creativity shouldn't be about success. It should be about the simple joy of trying something out.

A black and white photograph of a rapturous audience in a packed theater.

Theatre

I’m Trying to Embrace Mediocrity. How About You?

Making the case for being OK with just being OK.

Film and TV

Oh, Creators of Peppa Pig, Did You Have To?

For many people, pregnancy announcements are a joyous thing, but when you’re struggling to conceive, they really are not.

Watercolor image of Nancy Borowick, a white woman with long dark hair, brown eyes and colorful earrings.

Great Women

‘Let's Be Honest, Moms Are Never In the Photo’

The photographer Nancy Borowick takes on a taboo topic and puts mothers at the center.

Sport

When Soccer Wasn’t Such a Guy Thing

Women’s soccer in the U.K. goes way back in history. But at one point it was banned. By the time the ban was lifted, the damage had been done.

Watercolor image of Saumya Dave, with brown eyes and long dark hear, wearing a white shirt.

The Interview

If You Could Take a Pill That Erased Feelings of Guilt, Would You?

Imagine if women could unabashedly do their thing without worrying about others’ feelings.

Gillian Brett, wearing day-glo overalls, sculpts a two-footgreen wax model of Fanny Wilkinson.

Forgotten Feminists

70 Years After Her Death, Britain’s First Female Landscape Designer Finally Gets Her Due

Fanny Wilkinson designed more 75 public gardens in London during her 20-year career. Now she's being commemorated by the sculptor Gillian Brett.

A watercolor of Rachel Feldman, a white woman with green eyes and short dark hair, wearing a colorful jacket.

The Interview

Lilly Ledbetter Has Made It to the Big Screen. It’s About Time.

It took the writer and director Rachel Feldman years of doors being slammed in her face before she got her movie off the ground, but she’s finally done it: LILLY is out May 9.

An illustration of a woman wearing a jumpsuit, with her hands in her pockets, looking at art in a gallery.

Fashion and Beauty

How Everyday Sexism Is Sewn Into Our Clothes

Pockets should be a given—as essential as elastic in our underwear or buttons on our coats.

An illustration of a woman laying on a blanket in the grass with her baby boy.

Parenting

When Did Boy Mom Culture Become So Problematic?

There’s science to back up the idea that parenting boys is different—but social media has made it weird.