Growing Up Girl

05/11/2026

"The truth is, the most effective way to inculcate in our daughters a fighting chance at life-long self-love and empowerment is not in the books we read to them, or the workshops we send them to, or the media we do or do not expose them to, or even the things we tell them, rather it is in the reflection of self-love and empowerment they see in us, their mothers.

The model of our own empowerment gives our daughters permission to be powerful. Of course, culture and societal norms mold our view of ourselves as women, but the beliefs and behaviors of our mothers are far more influential."

~ Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
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Art: Meagan Boyd, “Mama Dance”
Meagan Boyd
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05/10/2026

Growing Up Girl began years ago as a portrait and storytelling project exploring how growing up female shapes who we are—and who we become.

I’m grateful to be returning to this work with renewed clarity, a new visual identity, and a broader vision for where it may lead.

More to come.

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Growing Up Girl
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05/10/2026

Jennifer Aniston is set to star in and executive produce the TV adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s powerful memoir "I’m Glad My Mom Died," and she revealed why the project feels so personal to her. Aniston shared that she and McCurdy “had very similar moms,” both growing up with complicated, critical mothers who shaped their childhoods. She praised McCurdy’s courage and writing, calling her “so special,” and said she was immediately drawn to the role when it came her way. The upcoming Apple TV series will explore McCurdy’s real-life story of resilience, with Aniston stepping into the role of her mother.

09/05/2025

Kudos. Love her.

Black q***r writer Roxane Gay to receive award for outstanding service to literature

“It is an honor to recognize Roxane Gay’s extraordinary contributions to the literary community,” said National Book Foundation Board Chair David Steinberger.

08/28/2025

Pamela Anderson is now the face of MAC’s new ‘Barely There’ makeup line..🤍

08/14/2025

Going from a shy Black girl, born in 1947 and raised under Jim Crow, to a literary icon, Octavia E. Butler’s path to success was not linear. She was told not to dream but to get a “real” job. As she juggled temp jobs, financial anxiety and a society that resisted making room for her, Butler wrote genre-defining literature that has been adapted for TV and film in recent years, and has continued to go viral nearly two decades after her death in 2006 at 58.

In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler,” author and college professor Susana M. Morris shares the quiet yet radical story of Butler’s life, revealing how the worlds she imagined were shaped by the one that often shut her out.

Butler’s fiction never floated away from reality. It confronted it. And it continues to make readers question what they thought they understood.

On social media, the “ ” trend captures the ominous ways her words resonate in the present on issues like climate change, inequality and politics. Her ability, decades ago, to conjure how we live now gives Morris’ students a feeling of connection to Butler’s work today.

Read more: nbcnews.app.link/WMQtVHBPKVb