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Mashable.com • June 10, 2023

Zero Waste Daniel is drag's sustainable fashion pioneer

There's a bird roosting outside of designer Daniel Silverstein's white-trimmed window, peeking into the animated tableau ensconced in a bright corner art studio on the third floor of a sticker-plastered Bushwick building...

Mashable.com • March 31, 2023

Emira D'Spain's rose-colored glasses are both a fashion accessory and a way of life

"If there's a glowup challenge, I'm gonna slay," writes Emira D'Spain in the of one of her glimmeringly saturated TikTok posts. Her page is full of makeup recommendations, beauty tutorials, and plastic surgery vlogs, but this post stands out, a quick...

Mashable.com • January 27, 2023

Youth gun reform activists are still organizing. This is what they're fighting for in 2023.

On Jan. 17, volunteer activists with Students Demand Action, a national gun violence prevention organization led by young voters and students of all ages, took a quick trip to Vegas. Few of the group were of age to gamble in the casinos or hit up any...

Mashable.com • November 3, 2022

Stacey Abrams' advisor speaks politics to the next gen. (These aren't your grandma's civics lessons.)

At this point, the general public should know that local elections matter. We all understand that state elections are crucial. But what does a governor actually do? How do state measures work, and what exactly is an attorney general? As midterm...

Mashable.com • January 6, 2022

How a 47-year-old skateboarding mom breaks stereotypes (with a little help from TikTok)

Picture your mom completely shredding it on a skateboard at your local park, rolling through with a sick trick, smile, and cheeky wink. Does that feel weird? Funny? One TikTok account is challenging our perceptions of who can do the sport, what it...

Mashable.com • December 29, 2021

33 years to read 'Twilight'? This TikTok account isn't in a hurry.

Take a 15-year-old fandom, add in a heap of meme-based absurdist comedy, and place a 20-year-old who's never read the source material at the helm. That's Shaiann Alger's account. Without being a part of Twilight fandom, knowing the inside jokes,...

Mashable.com • November 4, 2021

Unpack racial biases in medicine with a myth-busting TikTokker

Did you know some doctors are taught that black skin is thicker than white skin? Or that even the so-called data-driven algorithms used by doctors and hospitals to calculate doses have racial biases?

Mashable • December 21, 2020

Racial justice activist on why she fights for representation in politics

In 2017, Olusade "Sade" Green was wandering, lost, through the halls of the United States Capitol Building when she happened upon on of America's icons, the late Congressman John Lewis. Stunned, she decided this was her chance to meet one of her...

Mashable • December 15, 2020

Parkland survivor wants a different kind of gun reform movement: One that centers Black lives

Right now, Aalayah Eastmond is in the middle of finals week at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. The 19-year-old is a second-year student in the Criminal Justice program, looking forward to a future at Howard Law and a career as a...

Mashable • December 9, 2020

Meet the 15-year-old activist fighting for better climate education

In 2018, the state of California was on fire. Alexandria Villaseñor, who was 13 at the time, was traveling between her hometown of Davis, California, to her mother's temporary residence in New York City, when she witnessed the destruction of Northern...