"I'm dressing for the female gaze" is a phrase that is becoming popular. It is meant to imply that a woman's choice of style, from her make-up to her outfit to the way she carries herself, is all ...

Earlier this year, British singer Olly Murs sparked some serious online discourse when before-and-after photos from his “12-week gym transformation” went viral on social media. But it seems as though ...

In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted a provocative icon of modern art: The Origin of the World. Hung in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the painting shows a woman's thighs, torso, part of one breast and her hairy ...

On TikTok, we’re seeing the rise of content centred around decentering men, and "doing it for the female gaze". It’s less about looking desirable for someone else and more about crafting an image ...

"Male gaze" is a term coined by film critic Laura Mulvey to describe the cinematic angle of a heterosexual male on a female character. As fiction imitates life, and vice versa, the male gaze has ...

You’ve no doubt heard of the “male gaze”—it has, after all, been the backbone of art and entertainment since man first put pen or paint to paper. Conversation around the concept has had a particular ...

This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...

The male gaze is the idea that everything women do is held up to the lens of what straight men want to see. And although the male gaze reigns in all forms of media, it couldn't be more present in rap, ...

Don’t ask me why, but I recently began binge-watching the VH1 nostalgia-driven docuseries, “I Love The….” Of course, I gravitated more toward the episodes around the 90s and 2000s, but the series ...

In 2019, DreamDoll vlogged about her body being 100% plastic-free. In 2021, Baby Tate clapped back at body-shaming trolls on social media. And in 2022, Doechii appeared in the visual for her major ...