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Haute Diggity Dogs!

“I invited a few of my favorite ladies to join me—and we loved it.”—OPRAH “I’ve always wanted to have a cozy tea party,” Oprah said as she sat down for a civilized sip session on her lawn in Santa Barbara. On the guest list was her four-legged family: Sadie, a rescue cocker spaniel Oprah adopted after they met on the set of our June 2009 cover shoot, plus Sunny and Lauren, springer spaniels making their cover debut this month. Though the gals tried to be on their best behavior, things turned feisty when they got a sniff of the treat tray. So the hostess gave them some bang for their bark—canine-friendly cookies from the table. Said Oprah, “So much for our manners today!” PEP SCHOOL “Now, this is my look,” said Oprah about…

Haute Diggity Dogs!

Meike Peters, CHEF “SOMEONE’S IN THE KITCHEN,” PAGE 104 The best career advice I ever got was…one day you’ll have to jump right into the dark, without a safety net, not knowing where you’re going to land. My stepfather, Uli, believed in hard work and bold decisions. His trust in me became my trust in myself. Someone who took a chance on me was…my editor Holly La Due from Prestel Publishing. I had shared recipes on my blog, Eat in My Kitchen, every day for a year when Holly asked whether I’d like to write a cookbook. I hope my younger self would be proud of current me because…I finally love who I am. Mark Doty, POET, “HE CONTAINED MULTITUDES,” PAGE 72 The best career advice I ever got was…learn what advice to ignore. Everyone…

Not counting your mom, what woman has helped you most?

My little sister. We had a hard go of it as teens, and I wish I had been a better big sister to her. Now she’s an amazing, inspiring woman and a source of strength for me. AMY JEANSONNE Troy, New York My friend’s mom, Robin, took me under her wing when I had my daughter at 18. My own mom was too far away to be able to help. Robin took me into her home and got me through pregnancy and the tough months after. I’m forever grateful for the love and support she gave me. SELENA TABSCOTT Newberg, Oregon My sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Fouch. She provided leadership opportunities in the classroom that boosted my confidence and propelled me toward long-term success. She had such a way of challenging our young minds and encouraging…

Not counting your mom, what woman has helped you most?

Q WHAT’S YOUR GO-TO SHOE? 83% CUTE AND COMFY BALLET FLATS 17% SLEEK, CHIC, SEXY STILETTOS STORY, PAGE 35 PLANT-BASED BURGERS: YAY OR NAY? 56% NAY! BEEF—IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER. 44% YAY! I MAY NEVER GO BACK.Q STORY, PAGE 60 Q IT’S FRIDAY NIGHT, YOU’RE AT HOME IN YOUR PJ’S, AND YOU’RE FEELING… 9% FOMO (THE FEAR OF MISSING OUT) 91% JOMO (THE JOY OF MISSING OUT) STORY, PAGE 67 Q HAVE YOU EVER HAD A MENTOR? 50% YES, AND I HOPE TO PAY IT FORWARD ONE DAY! 50% NO, BUT I SURE COULD USE ONE! STORY, PAGE 78 Q IS EYE CREAM PART OF YOUR SKINCARE ROUTINE? 44% WAIT, I NEED A DAY CREAM, A NIGHT CREAM, AND AN EYE CREAM? STORY, PAGE 50 WE WANT YOUR TAKE! TO WEIGH IN ON FUTURE TOPICS, FOLLOW US @oprahmagazine…

WOMEN ARE HELPING ONE ANOTHER GET AHEAD—AND THE PROGRESS WE’RE MAKING IS GENUINELY THRILLING. WE’VE COME A LONG way, baby, yet here it is, 2020, and women still don’t earn as much money as men, we’re not promoted at the same rate, and the Equal Rights Amendment has yet to be enshrined in our Constitution. But as you’ll see in “Sister Acts” (page 78), that’s not stopping women from helping one another get ahead—and the progress we’re making is genuinely thrilling. Speaking of thrilling, when was the last time a cookie actually thrilled you? Check out the chocolate chip number on page 102—those roasted hazelnuts are a total game changer! We also have an eco-conscious O List (page 31), an important look at how we deal with chronic pain (page 53), and…

IN 2015, THE YEAR before my friend Ava DuVernay began production on her TV series Queen Sugar, women directed only 17 percent of television episodes, and minority women directed only 3 percent. Of all the first-time directors that year, 81 percent were men. In the face of those grim figures, Ava—whose brilliant works like Selma, 13th, and When They See Us have illuminated history—made some history of her own: She chose to hire only women directors, some of whom would be getting their first shot at TV. Queen Sugar is credited as the first series to be directed entirely by women. The very first. Dig back to the beginning of television—every network, every show, right up to our current golden age—and let the sheer magnitude of that achievement resonate in your…

1. What’s your no-fail go-for-it motivational song? U2’s “Beautiful Day.” 2. What’s your guilty pleasure? Playing Tetris to zone out and give my mind a break. 3. If you could send a note to yourself in 2030, what would it say? “I hope you’re happy. And if you’re not, make it so.” 4. What’s the one thing in life you’re so glad you did? Left my old career in publicity and stepped out on faith to pursue filmmaking. 5. Who’s the one person who changed your life? My eighth-grade teacher Mrs. Dee, who convinced me that I had something special within me and gave me the gift of confidence. 6. What gives you hope? I truly believe that every day brings a new hope. We get to start again, and try again, and be grateful all over again. 7. What’s the best…

Mark Their Words Odds are you’ve never heard any phrases in Kashaya, Yavapai, or Mandan—because, like a full third of the world’s languages, they have fewer than 1,000 speakers left. That’s why Daniel Bögre Udell and Freddie Andrade founded Wikitongues, a nonprofit that aims to archive videos of people speaking and signing the 7,000-plus languages still in existence today so each can be preserved and passed on. Want to help make oral history? Submit your own recording at wikitongues.org. Art Stimulates Life A painting of an apple a day may keep…death away? That’s the good news from a 14-year study recently published in the medical journal BMJ. It followed thousands of people age 50 and older and discovered that those who visited a museum, attended a concert, or went to the theater at…

ONE NIGHT IN July 2018, Stephanie H. Shih rolled a dollop of porcelain into a three-inch circle and pinched a small dumpling into being. “I’d recently done a series of pieces based on vessels from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and I had no idea what to make next,” says Shih, a first-generation Asian American. “Then it occurred to me: Clay is really doughlike”—and the idea of a dumpling popped into her head. “At first I made six,” she says. “Then I just kept going.” But when Shih, 33, posted a photo on Instagram, commenters trivialized the object, calling it cute, funny; some suggested she pose it in a takeout container or being dipped in soy sauce. “In the U.S., Chinese food exists in a strange space,” says the Brooklyn ceramist.…

“AS” BY STEVIE WONDER. The lyrics list all these impossible things—like the day is night and night becomes the day, and 8 times 8 times 8 is 4—as a way of saying that’s how long he’ll be loving someone. It’s my absolute favorite song on planet Earth. Spirited Grammy winner Alicia Keys—whose memoir, More Myself: A Journey, hits shelves March 31—on what she can’t live without. MY SONS EGYPT AND GENESIS. My little guy, Genesis, is 5, so he states the truth exactly as it is, which is often hysterical—especially because he’s recently fallen in love with the F word. He can’t get enough of it, and it’s totally inappropriate, but what can you do? I told Egypt, “You better not have taught him that word.” He says Genesis heard it from…

Change Your World

AT 15, LUCA PATUELLI spiraled into a funk when his skater days came to a halt. A leg surgery—just one of 16 operations he endured to cope with a neuromuscular condition that stiffens bones and weakens muscles—made kneeling on a skateboard, which is how he was able to shred, painful. “Both my favorite activity and the way I got around were taken away,” says Patuelli, who grew up in Maryland. Then one day a friend took him to a break-dancing contest. “It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” says the now 35-year-old. “I ended up dropping my crutches and doing what I called a super push-up”—with his hands planted, he hoisted his body vertically and let his legs hover in midair. “The crowd went crazy. The reaction made me…

Change Your World

On How They Met: I lost my first dog, Banjo, in December 2016, and I mourned for about a year. When I finally didn’t feel like crying every time I saw a dog, I went to the Dog Cafe in L.A. for a meet-and-greet with rescues. Gouda was trotting around, being super licky with people. After I adopted him, I learned he was found running around Victorville, California, on the way to Las Vegas. He had a frayed nylon rope around his neck, which means he’d been tied up. When a dog has been mistreated, that damage can be reversed—but only because they’re willing to love again. On Having a Pep Boy: Gouda would be a great hype man, because he’s so excitable. He always seems to be asking, “Where are…

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO Gayle

WATCH All good things must come to an end—and that includes ABC’s laugh-out-loud-funny Modern Family. After 11 seasons, nearly 250 episodes, and 82 Emmy nominations, the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tuckers will bid a final goodbye in the series finale April 8. I’ve always liked how the show mixes heart and humor, and I’ve loved that even with some new additions over the years (like the cute twins Poppy and George), no one from the original cast ever left. I’ll need a second to figure out how to fill the Modern Family–shaped hole in my weekly TV schedule. (Luckily, Insecure returns April 12.) EAT Never say never, but I don’t think my diet will ever be completely plant-based. That’s a polite way of saying that when my very good friend Senator Cory Booker suggested we have dinner…

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO Gayle

A few things we think are just great!

Paint the Town This watercolor set includes a handmade porcelain palette, two notebooks with paper from a sustainable forest, a professional-grade artist’s brush, and 12 pigments in recyclable paint pans. Other than that, it’s BYOB (bring your own beret!). Armed and Glamorous For every repurposed–tin can bracelet bought, the Denver-based seller donates a can of food to charity. Great style, meet great idea. The Temptations When you buy these dark chocolate bars in recyclable wrappers, small-scale cacao farmers in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Bolivia all benefit—right along with your tummy and soul. Rest in Fleece These classic Audrey Hepburn–style bateauneck tops, made in the U.S.A. from recycled yarn, are deliciously cozy during an April shower. Bonus: Less time deciding what to wear means more time breakfasting at Tiffany’s. Kitchen Magician Nonstick and nontoxic, this baby comes with…

A few things we think are just great!

ADAM’S Style SHEET

1 HERE COMES THE SUN Weather April showers with a cheery organic cotton and nylon anorak. Down the road, when you’re ready to part ways with the jacket, the brand will take it back to be either restored (and resold at a reduced price) or recycled. 2 On a Roll This travel buddy uses recycled goods at nearly every turn, from the polycarbonate exterior to the aluminum handle to the zippers. Even the lining is sourced from discarded water bottles. 3 Nice Save Manufacturing the average pair of jeans can use about 1,500 gallons of H2 O. DL1961’s use less than ten gallons thanks to a stringent water-conserving production process. 4 Footloose and Cruelty-Free Here’s a vegan-leather sandal from a company that tracks its products’ environmental impact (water usage, energy) and offsets it through such do-good initiatives…

ADAM’S Style SHEET

LEADER OF THE PACH

The haircare items in the collection were developed with the help of celebrity hairstylist Chris McMillan, the man responsible for Jennifer Aniston’s iconic looks. Drunk Elephant, the cult-favorite skincare brand that mixes tried-and-true topicals and clean formulas with punchy packaging, is introducing a body collection (gentle wash, lotion, deodorant) and four hair products (shine-boosting shampoo, conditioner, detangling mist, scalp scrub). Free of sulfates, fragrances, and dyes, all items ($16 to $36 each; sephora.com) contain a blend of nurturing plant extracts. What a trunk show!…

LEADER OF THE PACH

INSIDE THE Beauty CLOSET

Smooth Move My coarse hair drinks up leave-in conditioners—and this one quenches its thirst without parabens, sulfates, or dyes. RISE AND SHINE Tap this glow-getter onto your cheekbones, into the inner corners of your eyes, down the bridge of your nose—anywhere you’d like a hit of highlight. Spot-Check I’m just going to say it: Buttne happens! But after I used this derriere-exfoliating mask a few times, my backside was as smooth as a baby’s…well, you know. AWESOME BLOSSOM What’s springtime without fresh flowers? This lovely rose scent is the next-best thing. Top Model Armani’s Luminous Silk Foundation is to my makeup artist friends what a sparkly Bosabo clog is to Gayle: sublime perfection. So when I gave one of them the new concealer version, he was all too happy to take it for a test-drive. Like the original, he…

INSIDE THE Beauty CLOSET

CLEANING UP HER ACT

MY JOB ALLOWS ME to try all manner of products, some packaged like Russian nesting dolls—boxes inside boxes, wrapped in fancy gold paper, all of it cocooning pots and bottles that are at best only questionably recyclable. But who’s thinking about recycling when you’re basking in the beauty of a new makeup palette, or excitedly wondering whether the latest antiaging serum will cure your skin’s ills? For a long time, I wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong—I carry reusable grocery totes and a refillable S’well water bottle. But I never gave much thought to the environmental impact of my over-the-top, multistep beauty regimen—and I’m not alone. According to DoSomething.org, a global nonprofit that encourages young people to take action on social issues like climate change, nearly half of Americans don’t recycle personal care…

CLEANING UP HER ACT

A lot of women grow up loving makeup and skincare. Were you one of them? A: I never wore makeup when I was younger. I was almost terrified of it: I feared it would transform me into a woman I didn’t deserve to be. I always felt like I wasn’t pretty enough. But then you begin to live a life. I started to view myself differently, and when I looked at the internal stuff, I could finally see the beautiful parts of me. Now I love bronzer and mascara, and I’ve actually learned to enjoy it when people compliment my skin. I’m very into under-eye rollers and acid peels right now. Q: Are there any beauty trends you wouldn’t try? A: I’m open to a lot! Five years ago, I would never have…

THE TRUTH HURTS

“It’s all in your head.” “I don’t know what’s wrong with you.” “You’ll have to learn to live with it.” IF YOU’RE A WOMAN with chronic pain, chances are a doctor has delivered one of those lines to you, likely leaving you feeling dismissed and dejected. In a survey of more than 2,400 women with chronic pain, 65 percent felt that their doctors took their pain less seriously because they were women, and 84 percent believed doctors have treated them differently because of their sex. They weren’t just imagining this bias: Research confirms that women are less likely than men to receive pain medication. Granted, painkillers, especially opioids, can be problematic—but a prescription serves as a doctor’s acknowledgment of a health issue and an attempt, however imperfect, to treat it. Medical sexism…

THE TRUTH HURTS

Clean Bills of Health

ON A SUNDAY MORNING in Detroit in the fall of 2018, Kyra Taylor, 31, was attending church with her 4-year-old son. As the praise band finished their performance, she glanced at her phone, saw that a debt collector was calling, and fell into despair. Over the years, Taylor, who was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 10, had often risked her health by taking a lower-than-prescribed dose of insulin to save money. But despite cutting corners, she’d accrued nearly $3,500 in medical bills that she couldn’t afford. By the time she started filing for bankruptcy, collection officers were phoning her daily, and one agency had taken her to court. But six months after that call, Taylor came home from her full-time customer service job to find a letter from Vineyard Church of…

Clean Bills of Health

FINALLY! Big News About Sickle Cell Disease

SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD) is a genetic disorder that affects about 100,000 Americans, predominantly people of sub-Saharan ancestry (though also people with Southern European, Hispanic, Saudi Arabian, or South Asian backgrounds). In SCD, the body’s normally disc-shaped red blood cells stiffen and take on a warped C shape, like the sickles used by farmers. Clumps of distorted cells can get stuck in blood vessels, reducing the flow of blood—and the oxygen it carries—to organs. People with SCD frequently develop anemia (which is why the disease is commonly known as sickle cell anemia). They’re also prone to fatigue, swelling in the hands and feet, bacterial infections, strokes, and unpredictable attacks of horrifying pain called sickle cell crises. Symptoms usually start around 5 or 6 months of age. Despite the misery sickle cell…

FINALLY! Big News About Sickle Cell Disease

DON’T CALL THEM veggie patties: The latest faux-meat burgers insist upon their savory, satisfying similarity to the real thing. Burger substitutes by Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat now appear on menus and in supermarkets across the country, and mouthwatering images and enthusiastic advertising by fast food chains have some hard-core carnivores wondering whether they, too, should come to the meatless side. Are these burgers better for us? Better for the planet? Better tasting? (Okay, no true meat lover ever wondered that, but people are curious about how they compare.) By now most of us are aware of the environmental devastation caused by raising cows for meat and dairy consumption. Land that could be used to farm crops for people to eat is instead being used to grow animal feed, and swaths…

WHEN TIFFANY LIPPS’S husband of 14 years came out as transgender, she was devastated. But lately, in addition to sadness and grief, she’s been feeling another overwhelming emotion: anger. That’s a good sign, according to O life coach Martha Beck. “Anger is like the immune system of the soul,” she told her client. “When injustice happens in our lives, anger rises like a fever to help us fight off what’s threatening us. It leads us to demand safety and fairness for ourselves.” Martha encouraged Tiffany to be gentle with herself and embrace her emotions, however difficult, as a necessary part of the healing process. For an update, let’s drop in on their third and final session. Martha Beck: Tiffany, how are you? Tiffany Lipps: I’m hanging in there. MB: Tell me everything. TL: Keith—I…

SKIP SKIP, HOORAY!

If you use a quarter-to half-pound weighted rope—like Crossrope’s ($18 to $28; crossrope.com)—your arms and shoulders will feel the burn, too. Boxers have known it for years: Jumping rope is an ultraefficient workout. In fact, one 2013 study found that over six weeks, just ten minutes a day of the playground pastime improved cardio fitness as much as 30 minutes of daily jogging. It’s no wonder hip studios like New York City’s Energi (energi.life) and high-end gyms like Equinox (equinox.com) have recently added group sessions to their schedules. Even if you don’t have access to a class, you can still hop on the trend. Check out this heart-revving routine from celebrity trainer Amanda Kloots, creator of the AK! Rope workout (in L.A. and New York City; amandakloots.com): Jump as many times…

SKIP SKIP, HOORAY!

Green New Deals

1. Hit the Sacks If you’re still stuffing peppers into plastic supermarket baggies, consider investing in this organic cotton mesh pouch, which comes in a set of four, along with three hemp pull-string purses that are great for bulk quinoa purchases. 2. Here to Spray Fill this durable bottle with warm water and pop in a nontoxic cleaning tablet for 20 ounces of streak-free solution. Post-chores, you can order additional tablets to keep on spritzing responsibly. 3. Lasting Beauty Instead of trashing this bamboo compact after using up its eyeshadows and blush, simply restock it with new pans that stay put thanks to built-in magnets. 4. Full Circle Why fuss with chemical-laden, absurdly scented (“Belgian Waffles,” anyone?) dryer sheets when you can go au naturel with wool balls? These spheres allow more air to circulate and prevent…

Green New Deals

The bliss you feel when you RSVP “nope” so you can catch up on The Crown? Instagrammers and wellness experts are calling it JOMO; short for the joy of missing out, the term captures the relief that comes with nixing activities and social engagements that stress you out—and can ultimately hurt your health. The goal of JOMO is to be intentional about how you spend your time and energy, says Sophie Lazarus, PhD, a psychologist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Her top tips for adopting a can’t-do attitude: 1. Don’t answer right away. A kneejerk yes may be more comfortable in the moment, but it can lead to commitments you’ll later resent. Taking even a few minutes to consider your options can help you proceed in a way that jibes…

LOUISE ERDRICH’S The Night Watchman (Harper) is a singular achievement even for this accomplished writer. It centers, in part, on Thomas, a security guard in a North Dakota factory and Chippewa elder who uses what he was taught in boarding school to plead his tribe’s case to white authorities; he’s a kind of double agent who presents himself as willing to compromise while maintaining his primary allegiance to his Chippewa forebears. Thomas is closely based upon Erdrich’s grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who led a heroic campaign in the early 1950s to protect Native Americans from losing the benefits guaranteed them in treaties with the federal government. Thomas’s surname, Wazhashk, is derived from the Chippewa word for muskrat, that “lowly, hard-working, water-loving rodent,” which, in myth and legend, “helped remake the earth” after…

THE TANGLED WEB

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL’S The Glass Hotel (Knopf) is an icy-smooth tale crafted in crystalline prose. It follows a set of troubled siblings—Vincent (her mother was a devotee of Edna St. Vincent Millay) and her half brother, Paul—as they drift from the gorgeous isolation of a remote part of Vancouver Island, to the gritty, underground electronica bars of Toronto, to the steely towers and manicured suburban estates of New York’s Wall Street elite and, finally, to the inside of a container ship. The story hinges on a Bernie Madoff–type scheme run by financier Jonathan Alkalitis, who is Vincent’s much-older boyfriend. Mandel delicately illuminates the devastation wreaked on the fraud’s victims while brilliantly teasing out the hairsbreadth moments in which a person can seamlessly slide into moral corruption, as both Vincent and Paul—an…

THE TANGLED WEB

THE AUTHOR OF the modern classic How Stella Got Her Groove Back returns with It’s Not All Downhill from Here (Ballantine), a wise and wisecracking novel of aging, heartbreak, and the quest to “pump up the volume” in late midlife. The story opens with Loretha Curry on the cusp of her 68th birthday—happy with her husband of 24 years, Carl (whom she loves “more than my Twizzlers!”); her dog, B. B. King; and a bevy of protective if sharp-tongued BFFs, among them Lucky, Sadie, Korynthia, and Poochie. She’s content, though a tad bored, running two beauty supply stores and dancing at home to Bruno Mars after work while Carl cheers her on from his recliner. But when Carl dies suddenly of a heart attack, Loretha is knocked sideways by grief. Loretha’s…

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

PAPARAZZI STALK THEM. Shakespeare immortalized them. Whole libraries are devoted to their foibles and flaws. Britain’s kings and queens have long obsessed us, and it’s this primal attraction that has fueled Hilary Mantel’s masterful Wolf Hall trilogy, based on the troubled marriages of Henry VIII, the impulsive monarch with a wandering eye and a preference for decapitation, if divorce isn’t an option. With The Mirror & the Light (Holt), Mantel brings her signal achievement home with a dance between scepter and scaffold as her protagonist, Henry’s chief adviser, falls prey to his own insatiable ambition. The central protagonist of Mantel’s epic is Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, whose brilliance, charm, and hard work have raised him to the king’s right hand. The novel opens with the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s…

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

He Contained Multitudes

CELEBRATING National Poetry Month n the spring of 1855, a 35-year-old Walt Whitman walked into a printer’s shop in Brooklyn carrying an unfinished manuscript, ready to begin the process of self-publishing his first volume of poetry, Leaves of Grass. While he had previously written a few poems, some articles, and a novel about the evils of alcohol, there was no reason in the world to imagine that Whitman—whose formal education ended with the third grade, when he became a printer’s apprentice—would reinvent poetry with that work. In it he articulated hopes for what his young country might one day be: a democratic society based on love and respect for one another, a society that affirmed the equality of women and honored the dignity and beauty of all. To express his dreams,…

He Contained Multitudes

THEY CARRY THE TORCH

One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing.—“ONE’S-SELF I SING,” FROM LEAVES OF GRASS BY WALT WHITMANI love you in the water Where they pretended to wade, Singing that old blood-deep song That dragged us to those banks And cast us in. WADE IN THE WATER BY TRACY K. SMITH Whitman devoted four years to caring for wounded Union soldiers as a volunteer during and after the Civil War, going from…

THEY CARRY THE TORCH

10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW

1 / Our Revolution BY HONOR MOORE The acclaimed poet and memoirist evokes the turbulence of the women’s rights movement in this elegiac account of her mother’s trek from Social Register to social justice activist as she balanced the care of nine children and her own ambitions against the scourge of cancer. 2 / Recollections of My Nonexistence BY REBECCA SOLNIT The firebrand whose essay inspired the term mansplaining delivers a clarion call of a memoir, chronicling, in unfettered, poetic prose, her coming-of-age as “an awkward misfit, a daydreamer, a restless wanderer” in 1980s San Francisco—and her emergence as one of our most potent cultural critics. “There were,” she writes, “ways of breaking the silence…and that was rebellion…and a coming in to power to tell stories, my own, and others’.” 3 / Deacon King Kong BY JAMES…

10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW

Love and Loss, Italian-Style

READING, SAID MY mother, was what American women did instead of cleaning their houses. She was standing on a chair, reaching into a cabinet above the fridge, the one with appliance manuals and expired Pepto-Bismol. She’d climbed up after I’d made the last-ditch suggestion that reading a book might settle her mind. From the next room, my father called her. He’d soiled himself again, or he wanted more juice, or to visit his brother who’d died ten years ago, or to give her a kiss. She handed a shoebox down to me and went to find out what it was this time. Inside were three paperbacks with disintegrated spines, romances she’d received as wedding gifts 62 years ago and brought from Italy for the boat trip across the Atlantic. I imagined…

Love and Loss, Italian-Style

It’s a beautiful thing when women are allowed to blossom. Meet some forward-thinking females who have come up with innovative ways to draw more of us into the talent pool (page 78)…. Weed is having a moment, with dispensaries popping up on Main Street, U.S.A., and entrepreneurs eagerly seeking to turn that popularity into profits. Yet thousands of Americans sit in prison for marijuana-related offenses—the majority of them people of color. We investigate (page 88)…. And in a land torn by conflict, grieving parents from both sides are uniting to find peace through storytelling (page 96)….…

REMEMBER THE old boys’ club—schmoozing on the golf course, doing deals over scotch and steak, ladies need not apply? Well, it’s still in business, and in some ways more exclusive than ever: 60 percent of male managers in the U.S. now say they’re “uncomfortable mentoring, working alone, or socializing” with a female colleague—a 32 percent increase since the rise of the #MeToo movement. Thanks, guys. But here’s the work-around: Sisters are doin’ it for themselves. On the following pages, meet trailblazers, rule-breakers, and progress-makers finding potent new ways to help other women get ahead. We’re calling it the new girls’ network. “WORKING RELATIONSHIPS IN THE #METOO ERA,” LEANIN.ORG AND SURVEYMONKEY, 2019. PHOTO: DREW SMITH.…

THE SOCIAL CLIMBER

The Identity Crisis: Growing up in Southern California, Shelma Jun says, “I surfed, I skateboarded, I mountain biked, I was cocaptain of my high school’s first women’s water polo team.” In short, says Jun, “I was a self-proclaimed tomboy—which is a really problematic term. Why do we need the word boy to describe being outdoorsy?” More problematic was the way Jun came to view other women. “In those male-dominated sports, there can be a toxic energy where there’s room for only one ‘cool girl,’ and other women are competition,” she says. “I had complicated relationships with women for a long time.” Finding Her Squad: Having earned a master’s in urban planning, Jun got a job as a community planner and relocated to New York City. There, while honing her newest skill—rock-climbing—she met some women…

The Brew Mistress

WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT: “White. Bearded. Flannel shirts. That’s the stereotype of a craft brewer,” says Frances Antonio-Martineau, a godmother of South Florida’s craft brew scene. In fact, she loves beer so much, she and her husband hosted their wedding reception at a local bar, made centerpieces from empty bottles they had saved for the occasion, and gave custom pint glasses as favors. THE BEER LOVER’S DILEMMA: How do you get past feeling like an outsider? “I’m not your average beer geek, and before I learned about craft beer, I used to be a bit intimidated when I walked into a bar, a brewery, or a bottle shop,” says Antonio-Martineau, a visual merchandising consultant who is Filipina, female, and a full 5'1" tall (but has been known to rock a flannel shirt). THE…

The Brew Mistress

The Erector Set

POETIC JUSTICE: It sounds like the start of a feminist fable. Two female real estate developers walk onto the site of a notorious former strip club in Toronto—and assemble an all-woman team of architects, engineers, planners, construction managers, and lawyers to build a nine-story, 200-unit condo named Reina, the Spanish word for queen, on that distinctly unhallowed ground. “The club was associated with violence and all sorts of unsavory activities,” says Taya Cook, cofounder of Reina. “People in the neighborhood are excited to have something in its place that’s empowering women and bringing good energy.” THE BACKSTORY: Less than two years ago, Cook opened an issue of Toronto Life magazine to read “Condo Kings,” an article highlighting the mag’s picks for the top real estate execs: 20 men and not a…

The Erector Set

THE HOUSE KEEPERS

The Mission: To support politically progressive, working-class women running for Congress. “There’s an appetite for new leadership,” says Nomiki Konst, board director of the political action committee Matriarch, which she helped establish last year. “But statistically, it takes women three times to run before they win. We’re here to help them succeed whether it’s sooner or later, because every campaign is a chance to shift the conversation.” The Barrier to Entry: Cash money. Running a congressional campaign is expensive. More than half the lawmakers in Congress are millionaires. On top of that, fewer than 24 percent of them are women, and fewer than 9 percent are women of color. (Further proof that men have so far made the rules: It was only in 2018 that the Federal Election Commission approved candidates…

The Numbers Game: Sixty-eight men and one other woman. Those were the coworkers Anna-Katrina Shedletsky found when she was hired to work in Apple’s iPod group right out of college. And she thought that was pretty cool. “At first I was proud that I was one of only two women on the team,” she says. “I thought that reflected well on me.” The Aha Moment: At a women’s executive leadership program, Shedletsky says, “I had an epiphany: It’s not like there are only two spaces for women and I won one. Why aren’t there more? And what can I do about it?” The “Leaky Pipe”: Shedletsky did what engineers are trained to do—study and try to fix the problem. After some research, she realized that while more women earn master’s degrees and…

The Action Hero

THE GAME-CHANGING MOVE: After working as a development executive in London and New York, Christina Hodson transitioned to writing screenplays. But as she quickly learned, “it’s very hard as a woman starting out in this industry not to get pigeonholed as a female writer rather than just a writer. I was continually sent YA fantasies, small erotic thrillers, or jobs about a girl who’s a half-witch or finds out she’s a princess of a dystopia. And I kept saying, ‘I want to write Terminator 2. I want to work on big action popcorn movies!’” So she wrote her own script, “an ambitious sci-fi action movie” about genetically augmented humans planning to take over the world, on spec. It sold in a bidding war in 2014, and although it has yet…

The Action Hero

The Food Network

A WOMAN’S PLACE: Traditionally, we’ve been expected to know our way around a kitchen—unless that kitchen is in a restaurant, in which case we have to step aside and yield the Viking range to a tattooed badass wielding a pepper mill. “Less than 7 percent of head chefs and restaurant owners are women,” says filmmaker and journalist Joanna James. “But most of these world-renowned chefs credit their mothers or grandmothers with inspiring them to cook.” TURNING UP THE HEAT: James’s documentary, A Fine Line, which aired on PBS in March, explores issues women face in the culinary world: sexism, harassment, few mentoring opportunities, lack of capital, and punishing schedules—problems James was familiar with because her mother, Val, is proprietor of the beloved Val’s Restaurant & Lounge in Holden, Massachusetts. A Fine…

The Food Network

THE MONEY HONEYS

Tackling the To-Do List: Polluted oceans. World hunger. A healthcare crisis. “We’re at a moment when we should be rethinking almost everything,” says entrepreneur Vicki Saunders. “We need the full spectrum of humanity to bring their innovations forward to solve the problems they see.” Unfortunately, that hasn’t been happening, as the people who write the checks that turn ideas into realities are overwhelmingly male: Only about 3 percent of venture capital funding in the U.S. goes to female entrepreneurs; in the UK it’s a pitiful 1 percent. In order to give more women chances to save the world, in 2015 Saunders launched SheEO, an incubator for female entrepreneurs who are starting businesses aligned with what Saunders calls the world’s to-do list: the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, from spreading knowledge to…

For Chantel Daniels, it started with being pulled over in Illinois for not wearing a seat belt. The police officer found marijuana in her car—she says it was for personal use, but because of the quantity (about two ounces), she was charged with and convicted of intent to distribute, a felony. Daniels was a first-time offender, in college studying for a human services degree, but as a felon she was no longer eligible for financial aid, so eventually she had to leave school. She’d been living with her grandmother, who was on public assistance; Daniels’s record meant she could no longer stay with her. At her sentencing, she was put on intensive probation for two years. “You can use a human services degree to become a probation officer,” she says.…

Kristine Davis, NASA SPACE SUIT ENGINEER

I was raised on a 1,200-acre farm in Galva, Kansas, population 870. We grew cash crops: wheat, soybeans, sorghum, alfalfa. From those fields, you can really see the stars at night. About a half hour away, there’s a museum I loved called the Cosmosphere, with a planetarium and an astounding collection of artifacts, like a moon rock and the Apollo 13 and Gemini X capsules. I went to space camp there three times, and by high school I knew I wanted to work for NASA. In college, my math and science classes were 90 percent male. But when you look at which technologies get researched and funded, it’s clear how badly we need women in STEM. For example, when airbags were first developed, there wasn’t a lot of thought put into…

Kristine Davis, NASA SPACE SUIT ENGINEER

THE POWER OF STORY

It was a chilly November evening five years ago when I first met Rami Elhanan and I Bassam Aramin. They sat together at a long wooden table in a bare office on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Rami was Israeli; Bassam, Palestinian. They were middle-aged and polite—the sort of men who carried the normal toil of the world. Rami was slightly rotund and quick to grin. Bassam was thinner and darker with a wry sparkle to his eyes. But when they spoke, they leaned forward and pinned me with the force of their words. Rami described how he had lost his 13-year-old daughter, Smadar, to a suicide bomber in the fall of 1997. She had gone into the center of Jerusalem to buy schoolbooks. There had not been…

THE POWER OF STORY

Garden varieties (also known as sweet or English peas) have 4 grams of both protein and fiber per half cup, making them one of the most filling veggies you can pile on your plate. This recipe is so easy, and peas give the hummus a beautiful color that pops on the table.—OPRAH Chef Raymond’s Green Pea Hummus Makes about 2 cups Total time: 25 minutes 2 garlic cloves2 cups fresh green peas½ cup cilantro leaves, chopped, plus whole leaves for garnish1 Tbsp. chopped parsley¼ cup tahini Juice of ½ lemon (about ¾ Tbsp.)1 Tbsp. ground cumin1 tsp. sea salt¼ tsp. ground black pepper¼ tsp. ground cayenne pepper¼ tsp. ground coriander2 Tbsp. olive oil, plus more for garnish2 Tbsp. toasted sesame seeds, for garnish 1. Preheat oven to 400°. On a baking sheet, roast garlic cloves…

Chocolate Chip Cookies

THE FANCY Brown butter and roasted hazelnuts add richness, while hunks of dark chocolate melt into cocoa puddles that’ll call your name. Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes about 16 cookies Total time: 30 minutes In a medium saucepan (a light-colored pan will help you see butter color) over low heat, melt ½ cup unsalted butter, stirring occasionally, until amber, about 10 minutes; pour into a heatproof bowl to cool. Preheat oven to 350° and line 2 sheet pans with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, whisk together 1²⁄³ cups all-purpose flour, 1 tsp. kosher salt, ½ tsp. baking powder, and ½ tsp. baking soda. In a large bowl, combine ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar and ¼ cup granulated sugar. Stir in butter, add 1 large egg and 2 tsp. vanilla, and beat with…

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Someone’s in the Kitchen

THE GADGET SHE SPLURGED ON. A stand mixer. After 20 years of using a hand model, it was such a relief to be able to sit with a cup of tea next to my mixer and watch it do all the work. HER BEST HACK. I’m impatient, so I don’t chill my pastry dough in the fridge for an hour before baking it—I put it in the freezer instead, which takes only 10 to 15 minutes. THE TOOL SHE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT. A sharp knife. A dull blade will squeeze, rather than cut, a vegetable. Precisely chopping produce helps me achieve the right texture in the final dish—like the firmness of the asparagus pieces in my spring spaghetti recipe (right). THE METHOD THAT MYSTIFIES HER. I still can’t get behind cooking sous vide. A pal of mine…

Someone’s in the Kitchen

what i know for sure

SOMETHING WONDERFUL always happens when my now-grown girls—graduates of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (owlag) in South Africa—gather around my table for Thanksgiving. We share incredible meals and even more incredible conversations. There’s laughter and singing, and sometimes tears of gratitude for new revelations. There are games: charades, Balderdash, Library, Black Card Revoked. And debates: about movies, #MeToo, forgiveness, tattoos, Kanye’s church, mass incarceration. Everyone has strong opinions on every subject, and we often don’t agree. It’s the best of what family really means: a safe space to express and completely be yourself. Recently, we were discussing worthiness—how to fully own yourself, step into the opportunities life offers, and become a whole person. We have had a lot of talks, since the girls were 12, about striving for wholeness…

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