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Lena Dunham Thinks Catcalls Are a Reason to Love New York

(Photo: Anna Silman)

(Photo: Anna Silman)

Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is written with just the sort of unabashed honesty and self-depricating wit you’d expect from the voice of her generation — or at least, “the voice of a generation.” And it also reveals the extent to which her personal experiences — some of them , some of them hilarious — have seeped into her work.
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Don’t Tell This Artist to Smile When You Visit Her Studio This Weekend

(Photo: Kirsten O'Regan)

(Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is not what you would call strident—an obnoxious word too often (smirklingly) associated with women who care about gender equality. The artist responsible for the Stop Telling Women to Smile project is polite and soft-spoken, and she also happens to be wearing a t-shirt that proudly reads, “Feminist as Fuck.”
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