Source: New York Times
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Streaming Kindergarten on TikTok
Teachers are posting videos of the extraordinary energy required keep young learners engaged and amused.
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Therapists Are on TikTok. And How Does That Make You Feel?
Mental health professionals are going viral on the app, captivating an anxious generation.
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Who Am I Without My Voice?
I was a singer heading out on tour. Losing my voice was terrifying — but it ended up teaching me everything about myself.
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When Being a Spokeswoman Attracts Leering Internet Trolls
When you lend your likeness to a nationwide ad campaign, things don’t always go perfectly. Just ask Milana Vayntrub.
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What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women’s Elite Sports
Although the number of top transgender athletes is small, the disagreements are profound, cutting to the core of the debate around gender identity and biological sex.
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Ryan Russell, N.F.L. Free Agent, Comes Out as Bisexual: ‘It’s So Much Better Than Hiding’
“I think the N.F.L. is definitely ready to accept an openly L.G.B.T.Q. player,” the defensive end said in an interview.
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A Trans Model Fleeing the ‘Trap of Respectability’
A candid new memoir by Geena Rocero, a model and producer who started her career on the pageant circuit in her native Philippines, recounts the pleasures and pitfalls of living openly.
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Intersex, and Erased Again
Where does the Trump administration’s broadside against transgender rights leave people like me?
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Women, the Game Is Rigged. It’s Time We Stop Playing by the Rules.
For most of the 21st century, the feminism that has been in fashion has leaned heavily on the idea of women’s empowerment.
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For My People’: A Transgender Woman Pursues an Olympic Dream
CeCe Telfer, the first openly transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. title, is aiming to qualify for the U.S. Olympic trials in the 400-meter hurdles. Her biggest obstacle, for now, is a lack of training facilities.
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Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties
The performance artist ran a mask-making operation during the pandemic. That inspired her new comedy at New York Theater Workshop.
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Black History, Continued: A New York Times Virtual Event Series
Join us in our yearlong series in which we explore pivotal moments and transformative figures in Black culture and examine how the past shapes the present and the future.
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How Lauren Ridloff’s Deafness Became a Superpower in Marvel’s ‘Eternals’
In her first major role in a feature film, she wasn’t fazed by things that might unnerve others, but she had to show filmmakers how to work with deafness.
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Brea Baker About ‘I Can’t Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying’
Some Gen Z and millennial women said they viewed abortion rights as important but less urgent than other social justice causes. Others said racial disparities in reproductive health must be a focus.
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When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction
When Kristina Wong asks that question in her one-woman show “Kristina Wong for Public Office,” streamable through Nov. 29 from the Center Theater Group, she isn’t just referring to the way she, a “self-obsessed, kind of naïve” West Coast performance…
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The Work Diary of Blair Imani, ‘Herstory’ Historian
Her “Smarter in Seconds” Instagram videos feature bite-size lessons — and a kaleidoscopic array of hijabs.
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‘I Can’t Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying’
Some Gen Z and millennial women said they viewed abortion rights as important but less urgent than other social justice causes. Others said racial disparities in reproductive health must be a focus.
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Theater to Stream: Kristina Wong Runs for Office and ‘Oedipus El Rey’
Watch a theater maker’s story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson’s tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
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It’s Not This Muslim Comedian’s Job to Open Your Mind
In November, a few days after the election, I got a call from a television producer, inviting me to be on her popular variety show.
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The Boys Are Not All Right
I used to have this one-liner: “If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you’re at a restaurant, ask him everything that he’s going to order, and then when the waitress comes … order for him.” It’s funny because…

