This shift away from grind culture is not simply a generational mood swing or a social media trend. It reflects a growing recognition of how post-feminist, neoliberal narratives have framed women’s labor as both endlessly flexible and individually responsible—masking structural precarity behind the language of choice, empowerment, and self-optimization.

Luca Guadagnino’s remarks are not merely a provocation about creative preference; they expose a deeper, long-standing hierarchy that devalues costume design as both labor and art. At a moment when the industry is ostensibly celebrating costume excellence—amid awards season fanfare and recent hard-won pay equity gains—his comments echo a persistent belief that costume design is secondary, technical, or interchangeable with fashion branding.

In an era of political repression, economic precarity, and cultural erasure, Libélula Books & Co has become more than a bookstore. In Barrio Logan, one of San Diego’s most historic Chicano neighborhoods, Jesi Gutierrez and Araceli “Celi” Hernandez have built a third space where literacy, mutual aid, and community care intersect.

Conservative commentators have blamed feminism for injecting too much emotion, fragility, and “softness” into modern work. What critics frame as emotional excess is the predictable fallout of decades of overwork, unpaid caregiving, and the corporate reframing of liberation as individual hustle. This piece examines how the real crisis is structural, —and why a feminist vision of work, grounded in care and collective accountability, may be the only path toward a sustainable fut

While mega-corporations pour trillions into automation and AI even as they shed workers and suppress wages—the real backbone of the U.S. economy is shifting back to Main Street.

What began as a small jewelry project has evolved into a movement — one that fuses art, sustainability, and social impact to remind people that, like the graffiti itself, every life is made of many layers worth preserving.

Christian Worley’s lawsuit is a reckoning with how workplaces treat endometriosis. Her case exposes the clash between a debilitating disease and a culture that prizes constant productivity over compassion, forcing a broader question: can employers learn to value empathy as much as efficiency?

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