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Today: a video editor working in film and television who makes $135,000 per year and spends some of her money this week on almond flour.

Occupation: Video Editor
Industry: Film & Television
Age: 29
Location: Los Angeles, CA
My Salary: $135,000
My Paycheck (Biweekly): $3,650
My Husband's Salary: $105,000 (We got married late last year and haven't combined our finances through a joint account or anything yet. We keep our accounts separate, but split a lot of expenses or trade off paying for things.)
My Husband's Paycheck (Monthly): $6,000

Monthly Expenses
Rent: $3,100 (split with my husband)
Student Loan Payment: $0 (I'm really grateful that my parents paid for school.)
Health, Vision & Dental Insurance: $0 (PPO insurance is included in my union dues.)
Internet: $70 for crap internet
Utilities: $0 (husband pays)
Netflix: $11 (I pay for Netflix, and my husband pays for HBO.)
Credit Monitoring Service: $20 (I had my identity stolen years ago, so I'm extra careful.)
Roth IRA: $300 (I don't have a 401(k) option through work since we have a union, and the company pays into my union pension.)
Orangetheory: $129 for eight classes
Gym: $20
Planned Parenthood Donation: $15
ACLU Donation: $15
NPR Donation: $10
NY Times Subscription: $10.50
Car Payment: $0 (It's paid off!)
Auto & Renter's Insurance: $ 150
Savings: $1,000

Additional Expenses
Union Dues: $170, quarterly
Amazon Prime: $100/year (My husband shares my account.)

Day One

5:30 a.m. — Wake up, take the dogs out briefly, and have coffee with my husband, H., to start the day. I leave for the gym at about 6:15, and he leaves for work not too long after. I sit all day, every day at work, so my run/gym time every morning is pretty much non-negotiable. When I get home from the gym, I make a smoothie and take the dogs for a proper walk. Our dogs are a high-energy breed and require a lot of exercise, which is fine by me. I shower, get ready for work, and get into the office early because I know I have a lot of work ahead of me today.

8:30 a.m. — Get to work and eat the breakfast I brought — a hard-boiled egg, toast, and half an avocado. Yes, I am THAT PERSON who takes up half the fridge with their food from home.

1:30 p.m. — Take my (union mandated!) 30-minute lunch break. I heat up my chicken and veggie soup and eat outside with my coworkers so that I actually see other humans today.

4 p.m. — You know those people who are like: "Omg, I totally forgot to eat today!"? I am not one of those people. It's time for a snack, so I dive into my bag o' goodies in the fridge. Yogurt and berries.

8:45 p.m. — I'm spent, and head home. The good thing about leaving late is that there's less traffic, so at least there's that! I work late often, but I always try to at least get home for dog-walking time so H. and I can catch up and chat about our days. I get home and we walk the dogs, and then go to bed around 10.

Daily Total: $0

Day Two

5:30 a.m. — Wake up, take the dogs out. Then: coffee, gym, dog walk, shower.

9 a.m. — Get to work a little early, but not as early as I had hoped. I bought the puppy with me today. I love that we get to bring dogs to work. Grab my breakfast from the fridge (same as yesterday).

11:45 a.m. — I take a break for a little online shopping. On Amazon, I order a book from a podcast I listen to, Dear Madam President. There are about 30 people in my position and only three of us are women; that isn't abnormal for my industry, so I like to read books and articles by women about their careers for more perspective. I also buy wireless headphones and organic tampons ($0 for everything, since I have an Amazon gift card balance that covers it). After that, I buy two bras online from Victoria's Secret because the ones I have a basically falling apart ($60). Finally, I buy a skirt and top on ModCloth that have been sitting in my cart for a while ($96). I've been trying to update my wardrobe (slowly), because I am a 29-year-old woman and literally all I wear are jeans and t-shirts or athleisure. $156

1 p.m. — Heat up my lunch and eat while I'm working. I use my break to take the puppy for a walk.

5 p.m. — Snack on plantain chips, blueberries, and almonds. I have to grab a handful of the chips and then put the bag at the back of my snack drawer, or else I will eat the whole bag in a single sitting.

7:30 p.m. — Since I'm working through dinner, I expense a red curry with chicken from a Thai place I like. I'll eat my prepped food tomorrow instead. ($12.50 expensed)

9 p.m. — Head home. On days like this, I'm glad to be paid hourly and make overtime. I'm home before 9:30. We walk the pups and go to bed by 10:30.

Daily Total: $156

Day Three

5:30 a.m. — Wake up. Dogs. Coffee. Go to my Orangetheory class, which starts at 7. I really like the workouts, but I've been thinking about canceling because it's a hassle to get to the location. We'll see.

8:45 a.m. — At work early-ish again (my normal start time is 9:30), and I get right to it. Breakfast today is two hard-boiled eggs and oatmeal. I remember that we're out of a few staples at home, so I place an order on Thrive Market for protein powder, almond flour, a few sauces I like, gluten-free pasta, and a couple other snacks. $68

1 p.m. — I heat up my homemade stir-fry and eat outside. The dog walker came today, so I Venmo her. $25

5:15 p.m. — I'm tired — time for an internet break! I have been lusting after the new Volvo XC60, and build one online. It comes out to $48,000. I know I can get a good amount for my car, but still, it's nice not having a car payment. Sigh. I just got a pretty nice raise, but H. and I are working toward buying a house. Even with our combined incomes, we can't afford anything around here.

7:30 p.m. — Eat dinner at work — chicken veggie soup from earlier in the week. While I eat, I research Mexico City because we're planning a trip there later this year. I'm ready to go, like, now.

8 p.m. — Producer is happy with my work, and we send cuts to the client. I head home after. H. and I don't want kids but I honestly don't know how people in my industry have children with these hours. It makes me think that's a factor in why there are so few women at higher levels in my industry, which totally sucks! A lot of the men I work with do have children. Their spouses must not work? Or they work part-time? Or work a job with, like, normal hours? I don't know, man. It seems impossible.

Daily Total: $93

Day Four

5:30 a.m. — Alarm. Dogs. Coffee. I decide to go for a run today, but when I walk outside it's raining, so I go to the gym up the street instead. I'll run tomorrow.

9:40 a.m. — I'm in a little late for work, but oh well. I swear traffic is always worse on Thursdays. My nine-mile drive takes a maddening 45 minutes, but I have the puppy with me at work today, so I give him belly rubs and everything is better. I eat breakfast while troubleshooting issues I've been having with my computer for the last couple of days. While we're waiting for client feedback, I check in with other producers to see if there are any other projects they need me to work on. Usually, I edit two to three projects at a time, depending on their timelines.

10:15 a.m. — Client got back to us already with notes (that was fast!), so I work on revisions. H. booked plane tickets for a trip we're taking next month to Detroit to visit friends. He tells me I don't need to, but I Venmo him for my ticket. $361

1:30 p.m. — I put in a lunch order through the company today since I have to work through lunch again. I scarf down saag paneer outside with my coworkers and then take the pup outside for a potty break before getting back to the grind. ($13.20 expensed)

5 p.m. — Grab a string cheese and tea. I'm not feeling especially creative today and could use a little caffeine.

7:15 p.m. — My producer left, soooooo ... I'm getting out of here. I go home and eat dinner with my husband! It's a frickin' miracle!

Daily Total: $361

Day Five

5:45 a.m. — Morning routine and a run. There's a 7.5-mile route I like that takes me along the beach and back. It's overcast today but still beautiful, and the surfers are out on the water.

9:30 a.m. — Get into work, make my breakfast, werk, werk, werk. It's payday, so I check my pay stub. My increase has kicked in (yay!), and I worked 25 hours of overtime over the last pay period, so there's nice a boost in my check.

1:30 p.m. — On Fridays, some of us ladies at work do a happy hour in the afternoon, and I figure I'll host in my office today. I brought a bottle of wine in with me because we still have so much leftover from our wedding. Gotta have snacks, too, so I run out to Trader Joe's. $12.70

4:30 p.m. — It's lady wine time, the highlight of my Friday. (Or the week?) It's so awesome to have more women working here now.

7 p.m. — I'm home! H. and I walk to dinner at a Mexican place up the street. It's so nice that we can easily walk to places in our neighborhood. I get two tacos à la carte, and he orders enchiladas. He pays.

Daily Total: $12.70

Day Six

6:15 a.m. — I wish I could sleep in on the weekends but I'm up without an alarm. I walk the dogs and watch a few episodes of Catastrophe on Amazon until my husband wakes up. He's up about an hour after me, and we go to our local coffee shop. The old guys are sitting outside as usual. A new hipster coffee shop opened in the neighborhood recently, but everyone still goes to the old spot. A latte for me, and a vanilla latte for him. $7

9 a.m. — We make breakfast. H.'s friend is getting married soon, so H. is helping him find a suit today. I clean up around the house — I swear I sweep up a new dog off the floor every week with all this fur! I should just hire a cleaning person.

12 p.m. — I bought a Groupon a while back for a Pilates place, so I use it today. I feel kind of "meh" about Pilates. While I'm out, I run a few errands. I stop at Target for makeup remover and a new pillow and walk out with a bunch of other shit ($121). Then it's off to the grocery store to get all our food for the coming week. (We trade off on who pays each week.) I buy chicken, ground turkey, apples, spaghetti squash, cheese, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, eggs, coffee, and cream ($95). Then I fill up the gas tank ($59). I throw together a salad with chicken when I get home. $275

4:30 p.m. — Weekend happy hour is the best! H. and I walk to our local spot to meet up with friends. We're seeing Super Troopers 2 tonight and have tacos and margaritas beforehand. It's a different Mexican place than last night — ah, the wonders of L.A.! H. pays.

8 p.m. — I buy movie tickets for everyone, and my friends pay me back for theirs ($34 for H.'s and mine). The movie is hilarious and terrible, but the first Super Troopers was a staple for my brother and me back in the day, and the nostalgia is worth it. We go to a bar after; H. has a drink, but I don't want anything. $34

Daily Total: $316

Day Seven

6:45 a.m. — I'm up. Head to Orangetheory for an 8 a.m. class.

11 a.m. — We're going to a vintage Porsche show that my husband bought tickets to. H. is a big car guy; I know nothing about cars, but I like to look at them. It's a really cool outdoor event. He looks at all the cars, and I pet all the dogs.

2 p.m. — Pick up lunch from Mendocino Farms on the way home. Their sandwiches are so good! $24

5:30 p.m. — I start cooking a bunch of veggies and protein to meal prep for the week. It takes almost two hours total, but now H. and I both have breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for the week. He helps out, but honestly, it goes a lot faster if I just do it, so it starts with us both cooking and ends with me taking over.

7:30 p.m. — We eat dinner and catch up on Westworld. We rewatch the season finale from Season 1 as a refresher (I mean, who can remember?!) and then start the Season 2 premiere. It's a great show, but god, these episodes are long. It's 10 p.m. by the time we're done, and the Sunday scaries are very real.

Daily Total: $24

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“Why you always lyin’?”

“Put ‘em in the coffin.”

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These are the hilariously bizarre phrases that continue to fill the texts of teens and twenty-somethings today.

Such is the case for Robi Calloway, 21, and her group of 15-plus high school friends who still text each other phrases from their favorite Vines. Calloway was in high school when Vine was released as a free iOS app in 2013, and she and her friends started using the platform the same way many others did: To create, by her account, “dumb” six-second videos. Soon, they were spending hours watching and laughing hysterically at the Vines others had shared.

“It was just something we did,” Calloway says.

Their favorites — the “Crack Kid ” who gets hit in the head with a basketball, Cody Ko ’s desire to make someone named Jenna send a tweet, and Nicholas Fraser ’s “why you always lyin’” dance on top of a toilet — became long-running inside jokes that continue to hold sway, and provoke laughs, in their group text today. They also sound ridiculous if you haven’t seen the looping videos. Then again, that’s exactly what a Vine was: A clip without much, if any, context whatsoever.

Of course, Calloway and her friends will never have any new Vines to add to their thread, since Vine is dead. Compared to other breakout social networks that launched between 2010 and 2015, including Instagram and Snapchat, Vine’s lifespan was relatively short. Twitter bought Vine in 2012 and, after failing to innovate at the pace of Instagram and Snapchat and turn it into a money-making venture, officially shut it down in January 2017. (This April, Twitter placed the Vine Archive in a "more static archived state", where you can no longer easily search for Vines but can still view them if you have a specific Vine's URL.) The online mourning period was punctuated by fan-created odes, support threads, and remembrances of the best Vines of days past. It was a drawn-out funeral where creators, celebrities, and tech luminaries gathered to pay their respects.

In a social media era filled with don’t-open-Insta-and-you’ll-miss-them, 24-hour Stories, Vine stood out as an anomaly: Even though the clips were quick, they could be watched on repeat and often were, becoming embedded in the cultural zeitgeist. What’s surprising isn’t just that Vine is still relevant after its death — it’s that it’s continuing to grow and attract new fans, sending an important message about the kind of content that’s needed and wanted on social media.

It’s been a little over a year now since Vine passed, but if you weren’t keeping tabs on the life and death of the Internet phenomenon, you wouldn’t know it. Over the course of 2017, there were 16 million tweets mentioning Vine. This year is on track to beat that number: There have already been seven million Tweets mentioning Vine, with 1.3 million happening in May alone. Some of these tweets are extensions of the mourning phase (see: Casey Neistat), but many more are ones that share old Vines, treating them with excitement, as if they are newly discovered gems all over again.

The multiple, unaffiliated Vine accounts that exist and continue to post on Twitter and YouTube range from the broad (Best Vines) to the niche (Cute Animal Vines). The sole purpose of these accounts is to share old Vines and Vine compilations. If you’ve ever spent hours looking for a beloved Vine to show to your friends and family, these accounts are a godsend, preserving your favorite moments — from the Apple Store lady ‘s rant to Peaches Monroe ’s “eyebrows on fleek” — in a digital capsule that’s outliving its medium.

Taylor Nikolai, 30, started the unaffiliated @FunnyVines account on Twitter in 2013. Back then, Vines were only available on mobile, not the web (the web version was not launched until January 2014), making it difficult to aggregate Vines. Nikolai, who now runs Viral Spark, a social media marketing and consulting company, and has received renown as a Snapchat creator, was an opportunist: He saw the potential to build a massive audience of Vine fans, and collection of Vines, long before the platform died.

“I realized very quickly that there was an opportunity to grow a Twitter account that specialized in the curation of Vines,” Nikolai told Refinery29 via email. “With Vines being difficult to come by in the first place, if I could find the funniest ones, and be the first to embed them in my tweets, my tweets would go viral. I was right, and the account exploded in growth on day one.”

In 2016, when followers heard Vine was ending, thousands told Nikolai they would unfollow @FunnyVines the day Vine shut down. It’s been two years since, and Nikolai says the opposite has happened — the account’s number of followers has ballooned to 2.27 million and continues to grow every day. “Everyone stuck around, and it's funny — all the content that made us smile and laugh a few years ago, still makes us smile and laugh,” he says. “The memes that went viral on Vine years ago still resonate today.”

Nikolai’s theory about the account’s perseverance speaks to the qualities that make them shareable: “It’s just so easy for six seconds to be memorized, memed, and quoted over and over.”

It isn’t a total shock that Vine’s original audience — and legions of new fans from a younger generation — continue to watch the videos. After all, we witness songs, shows, and fashion trends experiencing a cultural rebirth all the time. But there’s more to Vine’s enduring relevance than that. The looping six-second video clips, by virtue of their short time frame and focus on capturing individual moments of humor, are almost timeless. A Vine is an inside joke everyone, all across the Internet, is in on. Whereas an entire episode of Gossip Girl can easily feel outdated because of the clothes worn and technology used, it’s harder to feel that way about Vines. Plus, while other social platforms are more curated, Vine was about true spontaneity.

Still, there’s also likely an element of romanticization fueling the nostalgia, Karyn Spencer, the former Head of Creator Development at Vine, said via email. Spencer worked at the company from August 2015 until its untimely end in January 2017. She was brought on to develop Vine’s first-ever creator strategy, though it was a belated effort. (Snapchat is currently reckoning with its own late embrace of its creators and Instagram’s new push for creators through IGTV just officially kicked off yesterday.) While some of the current mentions of missing Vine come from genuine fans, Spencer says she’s noticed a tendency of people tapping into the popularity of talking about how much they miss Vine to draw out followers’ sentiments on social.

“It’s very popular to talk about Vine on Twitter these days, which comes with a lot of irony,” Spencer says. “But the real community always loved it, and they know who they are. We see fake fans pop up from time to time and we discuss it with eye rolls in private group chats. That’s not to say that you can’t be a new fan, but some people say things like ‘Oh how I miss it’, and well, we knew who was active and who wasn’t. There is some pretending going on for the likes.”

Spencer is happy to see that many of the best Vine creators have successfully continued to build their careers and their following on other platforms, including YouTube and, soon, IGTV. There’s Liza Koshy, who has over 15 million YouTube subscribers, Lele Pons, who has over 25 million followers on Instagram, and Andrew Bachelor (i.e. King Bach), who has a full IMDb page of upcoming movies.

Brittany Furlan is another such creator. Furlan was the most followed female star on Vine when she quit the platform in 2015. She initially created an account as a struggling actress, because she saw it as a “cool, creative outlet.” Her funny reactions to relatable moments, such as the discomfort of watching a movie with your parents when a sex scene comes on, propelled her to viral fame within a matter of months.

She was one of the lucky ones. Her status as a Vine star led to her landing an agent, manager, and movie gigs. “It really helped me segue from this tough spot I was in to being able to do what I want to do, which is awesome,” Furlan says.

Still, any nostalgia she has for Vine is for the early days, “when it was just me in my house struggling with anxiety, success, and just trying to find myself and having pure fun. That's what made me popular. There was no end goal of being successful. There was no end goal of having a bunch of followers. There was none of that. It was just so pure and so fun.”

It seems that the longer social media platforms exist, the less creatively “pure” they become: Instagram is full of perfect photos and SponCon, and Snapchat is full of branded filters. This is only natural — the platforms and the people on them need to make a living. While it’s all well and good to reminisce about the glory days of Vine, it’s worth asking whether we’d still love Vine if it matured.

In December, Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann announced plans to resurrect Vine with a sequel, Vine 2. But hundreds of tweets of joy were quickly dashed last month when Hofmann followed up to say the project is postponed indefinitely, citing financial and legal fees as the cause. Still, there is a possibility that Vine could return, though there’s a larger question fans, both old and new, would need to answer if it did: Would we like the new Vine in today’s social media climate and, furthermore, would we want anything to tarnish the Vine that was?

For her part, Spencer suggested and is hopeful that Twitter will incorporate Vine into the app as a new tab. Given the way Vine has come back to life in some form on Twitter (and the fact that Twitter still owns Vine), it’s a sound idea. Come on, Twitter: Do it for the Vine.

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In a new interview with Bustle, Kardashian claims that she "didn't see backlash" after attending the MTV Movie and TV Awards last week... and that she wasn't trying to purposely stoke the flame. "North said she wanted braids and asked if I would do them with her. So we braided her hair and then we braided my hair... if anything, my daughter was so excited to see me get matching braids with her," she clarified. That's not to say that Kardashian completely forgot about her past missteps, though.

"I [do] remember the backlash when I had the blonde hair and that I called them 'Bo Derek braids,'" she admitted. (For the record, Fulani braids are plaits assembled in a pattern and decked out with beads — a style that's been worn by the Fulani people of West Africa for centuries.) "I obviously know they're called Fulani braids and I know the origin of where they came from and I'm totally respectful of that. I'm not tone deaf to where I don't get it. I do get it. Maybe if I had come out and explained that from the beginning instead of calling them 'Bo Derek braids,' then it wouldn't have gotten such backlash. But in no way am I ever trying to disrespect anyone's culture by wearing braids."

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And as for North West's birthday hairstyle — a stick-straight ponytail that the Internet flipped out about — that's NBD to the selfie-loving star, either, really. "She wanted to try straight hair so I said she could try it for her birthday party and then if she liked it, she could do it in New York for her birthday. It's very limited to just that," she said. "I think everyone thought it was this crazy pressed thing — I mean, I just used a flat iron and everyone was saying she was wearing extensions and I was like, 'No, she has curly hair, so that's what the length of her hair is when it's straightened.'"

While we do appreciate the clarification, what I really want to know is what you, our reader, thinks of her reply. Heck, tell me what you think of her even wearing them in the first place. Ready, set, comment below.

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“Green Queen” Jazmin Hupp co-founded Women Grow in 2014 in Denver to help women across North America launch businesses in the now-booming and legal marijuana industry. A for-profit, membership-based company that operates with a “social mission,” Women Grow holds an annual summit, hosts monthly meetings in 35 cities across the United States and Canada and webinars online, and provides discounts for its members to attend other cannabis conferences and events.

Many of the women who attended the speed-networking event were new to the field. Some were mid-career professionals starting very early-stage cannabis ventures; others were in their early 20s and interested in breaking into a seemingly cool, relaxed industry; several women in their 40s and 50s were researching a potentially lucrative career change; and more than a few, particularly the Black and brown participants, came for policy reasons.

“There are the folks who primarily come into this space who are not just only focused on the war on drugs but also fighting for patients’ rights. I believe that if we’re helping to build a new industry, advocacy needs to be a part of all that we do,” says Gia Morón, the executive vice president of Women Grow. “The cannabis industry [is] being built, honestly, on the backs of Black and brown people, without [them] receiving any credit. I want to see more of us in this space and create good business opportunities, not just for women but also for people of color.”

These other businesses are making money. Why can't we be a part of this?

Morón is a self-described Black Latina who worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years. She owns her own public relations and business development firm and first started going to Women Grow meetings in 2015. Capitalism isn’t usually a tenet of social justice movements, but Morón doesn’t believe making money in cannabis and agitating for anti-racist regulation are at odds.

“Coming from Wall Street, the one thing that I learned is money isn’t a bad thing — it’s how you use it,” she says. “Here are women that saw an opportunity in this space and said, These other businesses are making money. Why can’t we be a part of this? What’s wrong with making money and doing good business?”

Feminist advocates of marijuana legalization often emphasize that it could be the “first billion-dollar industry not dominated by men,” but unlike Morón, they tend to gloss over the experiences of Black and brown men who built the industry (many decades before the legalization movement) on the street level, and the non-white women who live in communities impacted by disparate drug policing.

Over the last three years in New York City, Black and Hispanic people were arrested on low-level marijuana charges as much as 15 times the rate of white, non-Hispanic people. Harsh sentences have left those individuals serving life sentences without parole over dime bags, not only barring them from future involvement in what is now a multi-billion dollar industry but also taking their freedom.

Last week, New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said he will recommend that the state greenlight recreational marijuana use among adults in an upcoming report, though the document has not yet been finalized.

"The health department’s endorsement of full recreational use is a step in the right direction and one that should be celebrated, but we cannot forget about the individuals and families that have been impacted by the criminalization of marijuana,” Morón told Refinery29 in an email following Zucker’s recommendation. “Full legalization means job creation, business opportunities and expansions across the state. This could be a huge boost to our state's economy, but let’s keep in mind the economic surges we have seen in other states have often excluded low-income communities; we cannot let this happen in New York State."

So, as the so-called Green Rush crests, advocacy seems to be an inevitable component of the work women of color are doing in the cannabis space, whether they set out to develop mission-oriented brands or not.

“Greed is good!” Tamar Victoria declares, only half joking, quoting Michael Douglas’ famed character in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street. “I believe in vibrations and all these different things, but also, from the standpoint of being a woman and a woman of color, I am a vivacious and ferocious businesswoman.”

It’s like a running joke among people who know her, she says: “I’m Gordon Gekko’s love child.”

We are sitting in a new restaurant in a part of Brooklyn that comes with all the usual signs of gentrification (a proliferation of dogs, bagel shops with faux-Tudor architecture and sneakily-zoned residential buildings) and talking about her work as a “drug dealer.” That’s another half-joke: Victoria is a recent entrant into the cannabis industry and is very aware of how her efforts might be received compared to those of white men working in cannabis.

“You’ve got people in jail for 15 years for nickel bags of weed, but I’ve got white boy friends who are growing pounds right now in New York City, and they’re not gonna knock down their doors,” she says.

Victoria, 39, has a background in corporate telecommunications and finance, and an entrepreneurial spirit. (Her startup forays have included lingerie, high-end coffee, and an artisanal ice cream sandwich company.) The first time she smoked weed was at age 19 in college, but her professional interests only turned toward cannabis five years ago. A serious car accident in her early 30s put her out of work for two years and left her with chronic pain and anxiety that weed helped her keep in check.

A few years later, as she continued to self-medicate, Victoria and her sister began slipping their mom pot brownies in secret to help the 62-year-old breast cancer survivor manage the excruciating after-effects of chemotherapy, surgeries, and prescription medication.

“I’m not disappointed in the chemo because I want to say my mother is alive because of it, but it took her through so much mentally, emotionally,” Victoria says. “My sister and I were like, ‘You know, Mom, there are other things you can do to manage your pain.’ We gave her a brownie and the next day she was up on a ladder putting a ceiling fan in, mowing the grass, and thrashing her yard.”

They continued the ruse for roughly two months before telling the truth. (“Well, I feel amazing,” Victoria’s mom conceded.) Victoria and her business partner Emanuele had planned to open a bar together, but they shifted their focus to cannabis about one year ago. “All these things started happening that led to these green roads,” Victoria says.

There are things certain demographics can do that others can't.

Their growing business, called Privacy In Public, sources sumptuous products from local vendors, including aromatherapy candles; double-brewed CBD-infused coffee; teas with spirulina, blue lotus flower, and hemp; as well as bath balls, facial cleansing oils, and creams. When we first spoke, Victoria had been looking into gummies and cookies, but she and Emanuele shortly reversed course to be more compliant with businesses that are licensed to operate in New York State.

"We decided to stay away from edibles," she says. "I don’t need the headache. There are things certain demographics can do that others can't."

Make no mistake: In New York, only medical dispensaries can dole out cannabis — and not in plant form. Use and possession are still illegal under state law, though decriminalization (which is not the same thing as legalization), and a federal blind-eye approach to small-scale operations during the Obama administration spurred on growth that is hard to stall.

Victoria and Emanuele decided to work for free for one year and set a modest $15,000 investment goal to buy inventory, since waiting around for a bigger launch pad would be more difficult. “I don’t care how long you’ve been in finance, how many contacts you have. People are not handing million-dollar checks over to black or Latino folk,” Victoria says.

But they were able to get “little pieces at a time” from individual investors in their networks — advertising execs, film producers, attorneys, bartenders, and music engineers who gave them $500 to $5,000 to get going.

She says they’ve since paid back their investors “on the lower end,” are working on a summer promotion, are on the hunt for office space in Williamsburg or Bushwick, and are figuring out how to raise anther $15,000 for that shop, all while courting partnerships with local hotels.

“I remember this area 20 years ago when the boys was on the corner slinging and certain individuals was not here,”she said of the now-gentrified neighborhood where we met. “[Now] that it’s the cool place to be, I’m taking every dollar they’ve got to give.”

There seem to be plenty of dollars to go around. The majority of Americans supports marijuana legalization and many are building and buying in. Market research firm IBISWorld found that in 2017, medical and recreational marijuana revenues topped $4.6 billion and amounted to $766.2 million in profit. The company projects that “as companies rush to capitalize on the cannabis craze,” revenue will increase 31.6% each year for the next four years, stretching to $18.2 billion by 2022.

Nonetheless, forging ahead is often a question of risk tolerance. Do you invest your time, money, and liberty in a space where Black people are both under-resourced and face greater legal scrutiny, or do you play it safe and miss out? Those who feel they have too much to lose may be unwilling to bet on the “inevitability” of legalization, but others, especially those who have already invested a good deal of money in cannabis, think the gamble is in not trying.

Deanna Clark-Esposito, the managing attorney of the Clark-Esposito Law Firm, works with importers and exporters that need help navigating cannabis law. She has observed firsthand how conflicting laws of the land regarding marijuana have created a game of roulette for budding entrepreneurs.

In January 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Obama-era Cole Memorandum, which laid out the Department of Justice’s plan to “not bother with moms making lotions in their kitchens,” as Clarke-Esposito puts it, or prosecute companies that were abiding by their state’s regulatory structure. Thirty states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medicinal or recreational (“adult”) use. But the Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies marijuana — in all its derivative forms, including the increasingly popular CBD — as an illegal, Schedule I drug “with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”

Maybe Black cannabis entrepreneurs who want to gamble must be content with playing it smaller.

Victoria is undaunted. “It’s funny when I talk to people and they’re like, ‘Well, I don’t know how successful you’re going to be,’ because that’s the thing — I don’t want to be MedMen. I want to be bought out by MedMen,” she says of Cannabis giant MedMen Enterprises. She might be onto something: Maybe Black cannabis entrepreneurs who want to gamble must be content with playing it smaller.

Ventures like her startup, which nets nets $500-$1,000 per day, she estimates, can technically be shut down and the property seized at any time. Just ask Virgil Grant, who “ran six licensed medical cannabis dispensaries in California” until he was raided by the DEA in California in 2010 and sentenced to six years in prison.

Meanwhile,Victoria’s white whale, MedMen, recently closed a $1.65 billion IPO, so her dreams of making it big are hardly ridiculous. The blockbuster company was founded in 2010 and opened an “upscale” dispensary on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on 4/20 this year. Less than two weeks prior, former Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that he was joining the board of advisors of Acreage Holdings, a large-scale cannabis corporation that operates in 11 states, “in every aspect of the supply chain, from seed to sale.”

“My thinking on cannabis has evolved,” he said on Twitter.

Despite the number of people flocking to the industry, social progress seems unlikely to catch up to the industry’s growth. Marijuana Business Daily analyst Eli McVey has written that women in cannabis face a “grass ceiling,” as existing companies“are increasingly hiring executives from the rest of corporate America.”

In a 2017 report, McVey found that only about 26% of canna-businesses are owned or founded by women. (That average is higher in California at 34.5% and Colorado at 32.4%.) The breakdown by race is even starker: 81% of marijuana business owners and founders are white, nearly 7% identify as “other,” 5.7% identify as Hispanic/Latino, 4.3% identify as African-American, and less than 3% identify as Asian.

Roughly the same percentages of people by race operate “touch” businesses (directly growing, selling, or handling marijuana or some form of THC) versus “no-touch” businesses (ancillary companies that provide a product or services like packaging or marketing).

Having “touch” access to and control over cannabis supply can be highly attractive, but the expense and legal risks of working directly with the crop are daunting. In many U.S. states — “especially those with tightly regulated medical marijuana programs” — entrepreneurs seeking a license for a plant-touching business must come ready with “hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars” in application fees and liquid capital, McVey writes.

"Regardless of race, most people simply do not have these kinds of resources."

“Regardless of race, most people simply do not have these kinds of resources. Factor in the additional hurdles faced by a higher proportion of people of color — including lack of access to investors and business connections — and it’s easy to see why minority business owners have gravitated toward the ancillary side of the cannabis industry,” he says.

Kadeesha, 25, has been a “cannabis consumer” for 10 years and is edging into that space herself. She entered the industry about a year ago and started a fledgling collective called Metropotlitan with her friend Daishu to dispel the stigma against marijuana. Their Instagram account shares news about decriminalization and legalization efforts and the duo is slowly moving into commerce.

Their first event was an hour-long “high power yoga” class on 4/20 (participants indulged beforehand), and they are in the early stages of developing hard-shell, smell-proof cannabis travel kits that can store weed and smoking accessories.

Kadeesha had researched what it might take to start a dispensary — but was intimidated by the “outlandish” cost of doing so. Even successful Black dispensary owners like Wanda James have been vocal about the uphill battle to turn a profit after taxes and licensing, Kadeesha tells me. So, instead, she and Daishu are toying with the longer-term idea of launching a weed retreat. (Think: Korean spa meets ganja.) Like their yoga class, the idea is to “provide a healthy outlet” for cannabis consumption.

Unembarrassed by their novice status, Kadeesha and Daishu have dived headfirst into the community, traveling to conferences around the country, and trying to meet and learn from as many people as they can. Most are friendly, welcoming, and excited about where things are going, Kadeesha says, but a fair number take her less seriously as a businesswoman or don’t share her passion for doing good. She went to last year’s World Cannabis Expo in Boston solo, and found that “it wasn’t so professional.”

“Most of the white men that approached me or wanted to talk were like, ‘Oh, you’re so pretty,’” she says.

And at a different event in New York City, a speaker with a background in cryptocurrency “kind of laughed off” an attendee’s comment that his company’s growth would increase if they hired a woman on their team. He also repeatedly emphasized the importance of “taking the market from black to white” — a term that “just didn’t sit right” with Kadeesha.

“I got it,” she assures. “They’re saying these are the strategies you have to do when you’re taking the cannabis industry from the black market to the white market — meaning taking it from underground to aboveground. I got it — but just, no.”

Kadeesha attended Women Grow’s speed networking event to connect with more women in the industry, get feedback on what she and her cofounder are working on, and see what other women are doing, particularly ahead of the upcoming gubernatorial elections in New York in November.

People need to be released from jail first.

“It is up to the states to determine how they want laws surrounding cannabis to be governed within their own lines,” she says. “This is the only time we have to really weigh in on the issue before the laws are decided for us.” Case in point: She calls proposals to expand New York state’s marijuana program to pets “cool,” but adds: “People need to be released from jail first before we think about pets. Pets are okay. Pets are not in jail.”

Other steps toward legalization in New York give her a sense that a bit of progress is being made. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that starting in September, tickets — not arrests — will be issued to people caught smoking weed in public (with some exceptions, including parolees). And the upcoming report from state health commissioner Zucker greenlighting recreational marijuana use among adults is encouraging as well.

“The best thing to come out of [Zucker’s announcement] was that people who are prescribed opioids can now qualify for medical marijuana,” Kadeesha says. “The medical program here is not effective: the qualifications are too strict; the dispensaries that are open don’t have flower (actual weed), plus they are not making any money. We need action — not more reports.”

Amid such uncertainty, Kadeesha remains focused on the places where she can make a difference: in her immediate and expanding circle. She urges others to seek out the few Black-owned dispensaries that exist and buy from them and to support Black women who are working on smaller-scale projects like beauty products, clothing lines, and edibles.

“Find them, connect with them, and support them,” she says. “If we don’t support each other, who will?”

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Today: a teacher who makes $54,000 per year ($121,000 when combined with her husband) and spends some of her money this week on pajama pants from Gap.

Occupation: Teacher
Industry: Education
Age: 32
Location: Conroe, TX (north of Houston)
My Salary: $54,000
My Husband's Salary: $67,000
My Paycheck Amount (2x/month): $1,674
My Husband's Paycheck Amount (2x/month): $2,250

Monthly Expenses
Mortgage: $1,687 (This includes homeowner's insurance and property taxes.)
Student Loan Payment: $0 (My college was covered by scholarships, and my husband's parents paid for his undergrad.)
Car Payment: $0 (Both of our cars are paid off.)
Health Insurance: $148 for me, and my husband's employer covers his medical insurance
Dental Insurance: $16 for me, and my husband's employer covers his dental insurance
Electric Bill: $50-100
Gas Bill: $20-50
Water, Sewer & Trash: $150-200
Cable & Internet: $165
Car Insurance: $124
Cell Phone: $53 (I share a plan with my twin sister. My husband's parents inexplicably still pay for his, but he tries to pay them back in other ways.)
Netflix: $12
Retirement: $348.40 to the Teacher Retirement System, a pension that public school employees pay into instead of paying into Social Security. And my husband contributes $415 to his retirement fund.
Savings & Investments: $2,000-2,500, deposited into a brokerage account. (We try to save at least $20,000 a year, but we didn't meet that goal last year because we bought our home.)
Prescriptions: $15
Washington Post Subscription: $3

Additional Expenses
Costco Membership: $60/year
Lawn service: $174 (4x/year)
HOA: $1,025/year
Pest Control: $96 (6x/year)

Day One

8 a.m. — I wake up earlier than I want to on a Saturday, but I can't fall back asleep so I get up. I make myself hot tea and my husband, J., makes coffee for himself and my mother-in-law, who is staying with us this week. She is absolutely wonderful, so this isn't the nightmare scenario that it might be for some people. We all have peanut butter toast on Trader Joe's California Sprouted Wheat Bread and spend the morning catching up.

11:30 a.m. — We have half a bag of leftover arugula that I don't want to waste, so I make myself whole wheat fettuccine with olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, lemon zest, parmesan, and a big handful of arugula. Wasting food stresses me out, so I feel good about finding a use for it.

1:45 p.m. — J.'s team (Liverpool) is playing Real Madrid in the Champions League final, so we settle in on the couch for some soccer. I'm not a fan myself, so I spend most of the game reading The Washington Post on my phone and chatting with my mother-in-law. Sadly, Liverpool loses, and J. is pretty down about it.

4 p.m. — J. and I get to work making an angel food cake to use for my grandma's Berry Bavarian Crown recipe. We make Stella Parks's version from Serious Eats, which involves a dozen egg whites, but we have extra eggs that need to be used, so it works out pretty much perfectly. After baking, I pull the cake out of the oven, hope that it's the correct shade of blonde, and flip it upside down to cool.

5:30 p.m. — I snack on chips and salsa, and then J. and I get started on dinner. We already made the carnitas for our tacos, so we just crisp them in a skillet, griddle our tortillas, and make salsa verde from cilantro, avocado, jalapeños, tomatillos, and salt blended together. It tastes amazing.

7:30 p.m. — Even though it's still pretty hot outside, we decide to go for a walk around the neighborhood. I've been in pajamas all day, so I throw on a t-shirt and shorts, put my hair in a ponytail, and slap on sunscreen before we head out.

10 p.m. — We finish making the cake, but we're all so full from dinner that we decide to wait until tomorrow to eat it, and make Amaretto Sours instead.

11:30 p.m. — I shower, brush my teeth, apply retinol, and then read for 30 minutes before falling asleep. I find that reading before bed makes it so much easier for me to shut my brain off at night and fall asleep quickly.

Daily Total: $0

Day Two

10:30 a.m. — I wake up later than I usually do, but I guess I'm making up for yesterday. I eat my standard weekend breakfast again (tea and peanut butter toast), and we all relax and chat until lunchtime.

11:30 a.m. — I make the same pasta I made yesterday with the rest of the arugula. Success! I use the rest of it. I share this fact with J., who always makes fun of me for this.

12:30 a.m. — My mother-in-law needs a few things from the store, so I decide to go with her and actually get ready and leave the house today. I curl my hair, apply sunscreen, and then do my typical makeup routine: foundation, concealer, powder, blush, mascara, and brow pencil.

4 p.m. — I practice piano. I took lessons from first grade through the end of high school, but then stopped playing because I never lived anywhere big enough for my piano (which my mom gave me after I graduated). Finally having space for the piano is probably my favorite thing about living in a house instead of an apartment.

6:30 p.m. — J. and I make dinner — leftover roasted eggplant and tomato pasta with a big Italian salad. Meanwhile, we prep black beans and potatoes for tomorrow night's meal and make a big batch of breakfast bars (prunes, pecans, oats, and cinnamon combined in the food processor) for the week.

8 p.m. — It's HQ Trivia time! Ever since I found out about HQ in March, J. and I have been obsessed with it, and we got J.'s mom to download the app so she can play, too. We don't win this game, but J. and I have earned a combined $50 in wins since we started playing. We want to use it for something fun at the end of the year.

11:30 p.m. — We finally dive into the strawberry cake, and it's as good as I remember my grandma's was! Afterwards, I wash my face, brush my teeth, apply retinol on my face, dry shampoo my hair, and read until I fall asleep.

Daily Total: $0

Day Three

9:30 a.m. — It's a three-day weekend, so I get to sleep in again. I have one of the breakfast bars we made yesterday with my tea and start browsing some Memorial Day sales. I end up buying three pairs of pajama pants and a bra from Gap. I'll probably end up returning at least one pair of pajamas, but I needed extra to get free shipping. $61.44

12 p.m. — We have leftover marinara sauce that we froze a while back, so I make myself whole wheat spaghetti to go with it and sprinkle it liberally with mozzarella.

12:30 p.m. — My mother-in-law wants to get a new belt, so we help her find one at a local strip mall. I do my normal hair and makeup routine before we head out. We go to Nordstrom Rack, Old Navy, and TJ Maxx, but no dice. She ends up getting workout clothes at Old Navy, but I don't buy anything. I tend to do most of my shopping online — shopping in person sometimes overwhelms me.

2:30 p.m. — We get home and decide to watch La La Land. The DVD came in the mail a few days ago from Netflix — and yes, we still get the DVDs because some movies aren't available for streaming, and we don't like going to the movie theater. We all agree that the movie was super cute, but maybe not as amazing as we were expecting it to be.

6 p.m. — J. and I make black bean tacos with crispy potatoes for dinner. We top them with cotija cheese, lettuce, and the salsa verde we made.

7:30 p.m. — We all go for another walk around the neighborhood. As we get back, a storm starts blowing in, so we hurry home to try to avoid getting soaked, but then it never ends up raining. We spend the rest of the evening showing my mother-in-law funny videos on YouTube until around 11, when we have strawberry cake. I shower, do my normal nighttime routine, and read until around 12.

Daily Total: $61.44

Day Four

7:45 a.m. — It's the first day of the last week of the school year, so even though I'm tired, I'm excited for summer vacation to begin. I eat a breakfast bar, drink a glass of water, curl my hair, do my usual makeup, get changed, and am out the door by 8:10. I try to sneak out super quietly so as not to wake up my mother-in-law. My students are taking exams today, so I spend the day rereading a great book called Book Love, which is all about helping kids find books they will enjoy and giving them strategies to become better readers.

11:30 a.m. — Eat the same thing I always eat at work: peanut butter and apples on an Ezekiel sprouted grain tortilla.

3 p.m. — I cut out of work a little early, since our weird exam schedule leaves me with a break at the end of the day. My mother-in-law heads back home tomorrow, so I'm eager to get home and spend time with her before she goes. I make myself hot tea and eat cucumber slices with ranch dip (this is my everyday after-work snack) to tide me over until dinner.

4 p.m. — J. has been furiously working on the computer trying to find us flights for our trip to Europe this summer. We were originally planning to go to Toronto and Montreal, but last week J. found a two-week river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest for 70% off, so we made the uncharacteristically impulsive decision to completely change our plans. When J. emerges from the study, he reveals that for some reason it was cheaper for us to fly business class to Amsterdam, so we're going to get to see how the other half lives ($4,200). We'll still be in economy on the way back, but hey, I'll take it! We spend the afternoon excitedly researching the amenities that are included with our flight. We are fairly big cheapskates in our normal lives so that we can afford to travel often and also put a lot of money into savings and investments. $4,200

6:30 p.m. — We eat leftover black bean and potato tacos for dinner.

8 p.m. — We play HQ, but none of us win. Afterward, we rent Spy on Amazon because my mother-in-law has never seen it, and we all love Melissa McCarthy. When the movie is over, we have cake, and I hug my mother-in-law and say goodbye since she'll still be asleep when I leave for work tomorrow. I get ready for bed and read until midnight. $3

Daily Total: $4,203

Day Five

7:45 a.m. — I get up and eat a breakfast bar, do my hair and makeup, and I'm at work by 8:15. Today is another exam day, so I work through my end-of-year to-do list to make sure I'm ready for next school year while my students are testing.

11:35 a.m. — Eat my peanut butter and apple wrap and respond to emails during my lunch break.

2 p.m. — I meet with my Language Arts team, and we find out the principal found us money to help buy books for our classroom libraries. This is super exciting, because we've all spent our personal money buying books for our students, and now we won't have to anymore! Then another teacher and I spend time prepping a presentation about finding and sharing culturally diverse novels with our students. We're presenting at a district training event next school year, and we want to be ready.

4:20 p.m. — Time for cucumber, hot tea, and scrolling through Instagram and The Washington Post. The house feels a bit lonely without my mother-in-law here, and I can tell that J. is pretty bummed, so I give him a hug.

6:30 p.m. — J. eats leftover black bean and potato tacos and I have barbecue and macaroni and cheese that was left over from J. and his mom's lunch before he dropped her off at the airport. The place where they went was ranked as one of the top 10 barbecue joints in the world, and I'd say it lives up to the hype, even reheated.

8 p.m. — We play HQ, watch TV, and eat the last of the cake. Then I play piano while J. takes a shower. I'm currently in the process of learning "Winter" by Tori Amos. I shower and get ready for bed before reading.

Daily Total: $0

Day Six

7:45 a.m. — It's the last day of school (with students at least — I still have to go in for a little while tomorrow)! I can't believe how fast the year went, but then again, I always feel this way. I eat my breakfast bar, get ready for work, and decide that today is a jeans kind of day.

11:30 a.m. — I eat my apple and peanut butter wrap and get a few things done around my classroom before my students come back. They finish their exams super early, so I put on a movie, but they're way too hyper to pay any attention. I finish putting all my grades in my grade book, and then triple check them.

2 p.m. — The kids are gone, and it's time for our annual end-of-year auction. Businesses donate items that we bid on using bucks that we earn from our fellow teachers for helping each other out. We have to write a reason on the bucks, and I hope no one notices or cares that one of my friends wrote "hooker," her favorite thing to call me, on one. I bid on some things, and end up winning $55 worth of gift cards and three t-shirts. Yay me! I collect my winnings and head home early.

4 p.m. — I try to drink water, but our fridge's dispenser won't work. Several YouTube videos later, we discover that the water has frozen in its reservoir, so I become the crazy person blow-drying my fridge. It works! YouTube home improvement videos have saved us a lot of money.

6:30 p.m. — J. has leftover black bean tacos, and I eat the last of the roasted eggplant pasta for dinner. This turns out to be a mistake — I don't know if I'm just tired of it or if it's because I used mozzarella instead of parmesan tonight, but I can barely eat it. I choke down a little over half before giving in and throwing the rest away. We play HQ, and then I play piano while J. goes for a run.

11 p.m. — I'm starving, so I eat a bag of animal crackers that I snagged from work a couple of weeks ago. They are surprisingly tasty. I shower, get ready for bed, and read until 12.

Daily Total: $0

Day Seven

7:25 a.m. — I wake up before my alarm, but I decide to just get up and head to work early so that I can leave as quickly as possible. It's my last day, so I'm pretty keyed up. I eat a breakfast bar, get ready, and get to work just before 8.

10 a.m. — I lock away the last of my things and finish the final few items on my to-do list. I'm not 100% ready for the next school year, but I feel good about the way I'm leaving things. I turn in my keys and head home for the summer. J. is still in bed when I get home, as today is one of his last days off before he starts teaching summer school.

11:30 a.m. — We go to Costco to pick up razor and electric toothbrush refills ($50) and pecans, and then impulse buy habanero chicken sausages after sampling them. We also grab lunch (I have pizza, J. has a hot dog) at the snack bar. $124

12 p.m. — We go to the grocery store and buy strawberries, bananas, spinach, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions, cabbage, ginger, tomatoes, cheese, olives, artichoke hearts, beans, half and half, peanut butter, sugar, and spaghetti. I always plan our meals and make a list so that we don't overspend. Today is the first time I've been to the grocery store in months, because J. usually does it while I'm at work. He's been working mostly from home this year because Hurricane Harvey destroyed the campus where he teaches, so he does more of the housework than I do. $57

6:30 p.m. — We always eat out on Friday nights, and tonight we go to a Korean place that we first tried a few months ago. We were scared they may not still be in business because it wasn't very crowded when we went, but we check their Yelp page, and they appear to be going strong! We have dumplings and bibimbap with bulgogi and banchan. It's all delicious, and we're both stuffed. $37

8 p.m. — We play HQ, watch Jeopardy!, and then J. plays FIFA while I read, play piano, and watch Lisa Eldridge's latest tutorial. I stay up way too late because hey, it's summer! I end up going to bed around 2 a.m.

Daily Total: $218

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Hair inspiration is seemingly endless, especially if you take your styling cues from celebrities. With the industry's best experts at their beck and call, A-listers have been known to switch up their looks at almost every appearance. But this year, and especially in the past six months, we've gleaned a major trend in the chops that stars are choosing, making a case for the universal length of 2018.

Yes, the pixie is fresh, and we can always appreciate long layers. But by and large, the chicest chops have fallen in the lob-bob length range, somewhere between the chin and shoulder. The biggest takeaway, however, is not necessarily the length (because it varies), but more about the styling, the unique spin each celeb added to make their cut killer.

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Now we know how Karl Lagerfeld is able to pull off such grand fashion shows each season. It’s because they’re rich. On Thursday, Chanel released its yearly earnings for the first time in the luxury French fashion house’s 108-year history. The big reveal? Mademoiselle Coco Chanel’s label earned a whopping $9.62 billion in 2017, an 11% increase from the previous year. This figure puts Chanel just above Kering’s Gucci ($7.1 billion), and neck and neck with LVMH’s crown jewel, Louis Vuitton (LVMH has not released Louis Vuitton’s earnings, The New York Times is speculating that figure is estimated to be €8 billion to €10 billion, or $9 billion to $12 billion).

And we’re glad to see that Chanel is really enjoying its money. Because, of course a brand who launches an actual rocket into the sky has $10 billion in their pocket. It also explains how they were able to send its models down a runway fashioned after a river canyon in Provence, France. Then there was the time they marched straight out of an igloo with a miniature iceberg imported from Sweden. And honestly, nothing was more satisfying than watching beautiful people in beautiful clothing pick out produce. It also explains why creative director Karl Lagerfeld feels so comfortable offering customers an abundance of ridiculous, useless luxuries like Chanel-branded hula hoop bag, surfboards, and a $1,375 boomerang. The latter drew the internet’s ire most recently, with people crying cultural appropriation (this was the second time the brand released this item).

It’s no wonder Philippe Blondiaux, Chanel’s chief financial officer, told The Times during a phone interview on Thursday: “We are very proud of who we are at Chanel and how much we have achieved while always retaining a core vision and creative heritage. This will remain the same in 10 years, 50 years — centuries — to come. This is what we want to communicate.” The company is releasing these figures now in preventative measure to ward off negative speculation. “It was time to let the strength of our balance sheet speak for itself,” he added — and numbers don’t lie.

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New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made herself clear this week: She believes it's time to eliminate the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal law enforcement agency in charge of arresting and deporting immigrants.

“ICE has strayed so far away from its mission. It is supposed to be here to keep Americans safe but what it has turned into, frankly, is a terrorist organization of its own that is terrorizing people who are coming to this country,” Nixon told an Upper West Side church on Thursday. The church is providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrant Debora Vasquez-Barrios, a Guatemalan mom who ICE wants to deport over a 2011 traffic violation.

The idea of abolishing ICE is not new, but has gained steam in the Trump era — particularly as the country reexamines its immigration system in light of President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance policy, which led to the separations of families at the border.

Eliminating the agency is part of the platform of candidates such as NY-14 candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , FL-27 candidate Matt Haggman, and NM-1 candidate Deb Haaland. And calls come from beyond the political scene: Just take a look at how Twitter and even comedian Samantha Bee has jumped on the abolish ICE train.

But, how did we get here?

ICE didn't exist until 2003. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which was created in 1933, handled immigration in the U.S — including overseeing legal immigration, border enforcement, and the handling of undocumented immigrants.

But after the Sept. 11 attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the system changed. DHS was now in charge of immigration and three new agencies were created under it: ICE, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Each now handle a different aspect of the federal immigration bureaucracy, with ICE being in charge of handling arrests and deportations of unauthorized immigrants.

ICE is a terrorist organization, and its egomaniacal leader is Donald Trump. Sign our petition to #AbolishICE: https://t.co/sZ3VF6lRhE https://t.co/qsB6XiJUJc

— Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) June 22, 2018

The creation of ICE inevitably led to more deportations, while INS didn't have as many resources to do in the past. Now, undocumented immigrants with no criminal record are at risk of deportation just because they were unauthorized in the United States. ICE, on itself, was a game changer.

It's not a surprise then that President Barack Obama was able to really utilize the young agency, earning him the nickname of "deporter-in-chief." But despite the tireless work of immigration advocates, who pushed against Obama's aggressive policies and said that he was not off the hook just because he wanted to create a path to legalization for just young undocumented immigrants, most liberals and progressives didn't really paid attention to ICE.

Enter President Donald Trump. His hardline immigration agenda, combined with his dog whistling, have made many people reexamine the role of ICE in the context of unauthorized immigration. The agency has increased the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants under the Trump administration, even those who have no prior criminal record. Some of those deported have lived in the country for decades and presented no threat to the United States.

The position has still not gotten hold among more mainstream Democrats, however. For example, former White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, who served under Obama, told Slate last month that abolishing the agency is not realistic.

"If we want to protect immigrants, if we want to protect our values, if we want to have an immigration system that functions and is rational, then I think we need to be willing to address how do we think immigration enforcement should be conducted, what’s a way to do that, that actually values people’s lives and their civil rights," she said. "The abolish ICE argument doesn’t touch those questions, and I think that’s a mistake."

Sen. Kamala Harris, a potential presidential contender in 2020, also rejected idea during an interview earlier this year. As a former prosecutor, the California Democrat said that she believes people who commit "serious and violent crimes" needs to face consequences and the same principle applies to undocumented immigrants, who she believes should be deported if they commit those types of crimes. Therefore, she said, "ICE has a purpose, ICE has a role, ICE should exist."

Kamala Harris defends ICE's existence #AbolishICE pic.twitter.com/QjzI1Nq3n2

— Brett Banditelli (@banditelli) March 9, 2018

An alternative to eliminating the agency altogether is cutting its funding, advocates say. For example, the campaign #DefundHate  proposes "cutting off the flow of money that allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport and detain our community members."

Either way, the fear ICE has created on communities of color is real. Families and workers have come to expect potential raids, which sometimes tangle legal immigrants and even U.S. citizens. Since Trump has "unshackled" the agency, advocates say agents have exploited their power.

For Ocasio-Cortez, one of the first candidates this election cycle to make abolishing ICE a part of her platform, it boils down to a moral stance Democrats should take.

"The fact that our campaign has led the nation in the call to abolish ICE is an example of the clear and ambitious leadership that we hope voters choose in deciding the future of the Democratic Party," she told Refinery29.

The question now is whether voters will take progressives up on the idea.

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Back in April, Milk Makeup — the edgy, inclusive brand you'll find in most New Yorkers' clutches — launched the first-ever CBD-infused Kush Mascara. Now, they're coming out with a sister formula in the form of a tinted brow gel. Similar to its predecessor, the vegan Kush Brow Gel uses heart-shaped extension fibers to make brow hairs appear thicker; the cannabis oil makes the formula intensely conditioning for a lightweight wash of color that keeps hairs soft, never stiff.

Starting today, the Kush Brow Gel (in three colors, plus clear) are available from 2-5 p.m. EST on the brand's site (you can access the early-bird launch via Milk Makeup's Instagram bio). The special preview sale won't last forever, though, so in case you don't get your hands on (at least) one today, mark your calendars for June 26 when it launches for real on Milk Makeup and Sephora.

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With this track, Halsey and Jauregui (real life friends who go on double dates and world tours together!) are making a play on the old pop song adage that love is a battlefield (tip of the cap, Pat Benatar). "Strangers" is a duet about a love affair that's falling apart and, slight twist, the two characters are women. The video finds these two getting in the ring and letting their boxing gloves do the talking, which is certainly a metaphor for my last several relationships, so I relate. Oh, and to those talking about it: Halsey and Jauregui have both come out as bisexual. That is what this song is about. Yes, they are allowed to talk about it. Especially during Pride month.

Lizzo "Boys"

Everything Lizzo touches turns into a jam. It doesn't hurt that this sounds like it may be using a sample of Justin Timberlake's "Sexyback" (which itself was sampling Eddie Bo's "Hook & Sling ") to ratchet up the danceability. There are some other disco beats and tricks happening in here, from the soul and funk side of the river more than the electronic side, that make this a straight-up jam. Put it on your summer '18 dance party playlist, stat.

CHAI "『N.E.O.』"

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Mae Muller "Pull Up"

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Flint Eastwood "Real Love"

Quick reminder that NYC Pride is this weekend and that love is love is love — in the form of a pop song. If you need a jam for honoring love, in all its iterations, this is the one. Enjoy the bop!

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At Texas Tech University, a group of fraternity brothers' violently racist, immigrant-hating group chat has been made public, sparking an investigation by the school. In the conversation, labeled "Frat Chat," they called for hunting "illegals" for sport, sending a firing squad to the border, and partnering with ICE for a "philanthropy" event.

They didn't stop at undocumented immigrants and also disparaged African-Americans, making racist remarks like "Picking cotton is a skill."

Screenshots of the chat were first posted anonymously by an account called @TechStudents1, which seemed to have been made expressly for this purpose and later deleted.

Nissa Garcia, a senior at Texas Tech, reposted the messages on her own account.

"These are students at my university, people I walk by every day on campus," she tweeted. "As a child of an immigrant, my disgust can’t be put into words. It’s WAY beyond political views at this point. The hatred generated based off one's nationality is unbelievable. This is NOT okay."

Screenshots were deleted (as I knew they would be) so here they are again!!! pic.twitter.com/uinIa0MtKI

— ASSina (@NissaGarcia) June 22, 2018

More of the conversation. Please feel free to share and voice your opinion. pic.twitter.com/isX0WFpRwl

— ASSina (@NissaGarcia) June 22, 2018

"It’s unbelievingly sickening," Garcia told Refinery29. "There are statements of murder and they have no sympathy." She said she believes the students should be expelled.

Texas Tech's undergraduate student population is 27.8% Latinx, which means it qualifies for "Hispanic-Serving Institution " status. As an HSI, which the school expects to become in 2019, it would be eligible for a variety of grants that benefit both Latinx and non-Latinx students.

While the school has a diverse population, it also has a large and vocal contingent of Trump supporters — which makes it somewhat of a microcosm of America itself.

"When Trump won, you could hear around my apartment people yelling 'Build the wall,' and the day after I was on the bus with two frat guys yelling that Trump would save America and that the wall would be our savior," said Garcia. "The tension is always present, but they won’t say much until they’re behind a screen."

Behind the screen in the Frat Chat, Kyle Mitchell — "The Cocaine Cowboy" — kicked off the conversation by saying, "Let's argue about immigration." Until Thursday night, when the messages went public, The Cocaine Cowboy was the president of the university's Interfraternity Council (IFC).

His bros joined in. Alex Provost said: "Build a wall then drain the swamp." And then, "Don't bother reporting them just use a firing squad."

Mitchell said: "I'm telling you build a wall, and the U.S. government can sell permits for legal hunting on the border and we can make a sport of this, can be a new tax revenue stream for the government."

They continued saying horrible things for a while, including that death is the "only solution" for "illegals" and that undocumented immigrants are only qualified to be cooks, gardeners, and housekeepers. At one point, Alex Provost suggested, "Slaves," to which Mitchell responded, "Wrong race."

In a particularly chilling message, Alex Provost said: "I've met ranchers that kill illegals and [bury] them under cattle graves along the border."

The university issued a statement via email, which reads: "The messages shared on social media are abhorrent and strongly condemned. University officials are investigating this matter. Texas Tech University is proud of the inclusivity and rich cultures that make up our community. These insensitive and racially charged messages do not reflect the core values of the institution."

Chris Cook, managing director of the university's Office of Communications and Marketing, told Refinery29 that the IFC appointed a new president to replace Kyle Mitchell/The Cocaine Cowboy on Thursday night.

Ethan Louis Smith, the IFC's executive vice president, said in a statement: "The messages shared are not a reflection of the spirit and energy that surrounds so much of Greek life at Texas Tech. The Interfraternity Council is committed to making sure that a thorough investigation into these comments is conducted and those responsible are held accountable."

In an email to Refinery29, Alex Baker, the Chief Information Officer of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE), the fraternity of which these students are reportedly members, said: "Tau Kappa Epsilon is investigating these disgusting allegations and condemns hateful language. The alleged comments don’t align with our values of love, charity, and esteem and have no place in our organization."

During an emotionally charged time when debates about treatment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border are raging, these students are members of the large chorus of people who lack empathy for migrants coming to America in search of a better life. Whatever the reason, they can't imagine themselves in the shoes of someone who has no choice but to leave their country and take a chance in the U.S., just like many of their ancestors did years ago.

Unfortunately, the group chat is part of a larger trend of incidents that have ramped up since Trump's election because racists feel emboldened by his rhetoric. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks hate groups, reported a 258% growth in white supremacist recruitment efforts at universities between fall 2016 (41 incidents) and fall 2017 (147 incidents). Anecdotally, we hear story after story after story — racist initiation videos, Snapchats, and Blackface parties. On some campuses, like at American University in Washington, D.C., new programs have sprung up like mandatory diversity training during freshman orientation.

The statements from The Cocaine Cowboy and his friends go beyond insensitivity and even beyond racism. They warrant more than a surface-level investigation and a punishment that goes beyond just a slap on the wrist.

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If your ideal Friday night involves less dancing on tables and flirting with hotties at the club and more eating takeout and drinking wine on the couch, you’re far from alone. In fact, you’re part of the growing lifestyle trend that is staying in. A new survey from market research firm Mintel says that 28% of “young millennials” (or people aged 24-31) prefer drinking at home. Meanwhile, a whopping 55% of Americans of all ages feel similarly. Sorry, barflies and clubrats, you’re officially in the minority. (I’m sure it has nothing to do with those super flattering nicknames.)

It’s not hard to imagine a litany of reasons why this might be. For starters, 74% of participants in the study cited the desire to imbibe in a relaxing environment — as opposed to a sweaty, crowded one where they’re constantly being jostled, spilled on, and fending off unwanted advances — as a key reason to stay home. Sixty-nine percent say the need or desire to save money is a major factor, while 38% believe staying out of bars and clubs means it’s easier for them to control their alcohol intake.

While Caleb Bryant, a senior foodservice analyst at Mintel and the person in charge of compiling the report, says the firm doesn’t have specific data on how significant a role online dating has played in the apparent pullback from bars and clubs, most of the millennials we spoke to cited it as a key reason. Call it the Netflix-and-Chill factor, if you will.

“It's the whole dating idea of Netflix and like, I'm going to sit on my couch, watch all of the things that I could possibly watch and drink all my wine from Trader Joe's. Why would I leave my house? I can invite somebody over to hang out with me,” Jenifer Golden, a self-proclaimed “older millennial” and one half of the duo behind the podcast It’s Complicated and the Instagram account @TwoDrunkGirls, tells Refinery29.

And while millennials are sometimes chastised for spending our cash on frivolities like avocado toast (or, I guess, living rooms), saving money was probably the number one reason to stay in among those we informally surveyed. After all, no matter how dive-y the dive bar, it’s hard to compete with that Two Buck Chuck. On the other hand, Mintel’s report notes that while people may be going out less, they’re often willing to spend more on fancier drinks when they do decide to leave the house. Because if you’re gonna get off the couch, put on an non-pajama outfit, and speak to other humans, why not pop bottles, right?

“Most of the growth in the spirit categories is happening with some more expensive spirit varieties,” Bryant tells Refinery29. “Also, you know, millennials are getting older, so they have more disposable income, and as consumers, they get bolder. They generally drink less alcohol [than other generations] but because they're drinking less, they still want to have that unique experience and so they're going to get a more expensive drink.”

Peter Sim, a 30-year-old who lives in New York and works in finance, is one of the only people I could find who personally disagrees with the conclusions of the survey. “Amongst millennials, especially in the city, you have to limit how much you’re spending,” he concedes to Refinery29. “But, on the flip side, as rent goes up, you end up living in much smaller spaces, and for me, it’s crucial to leave my apartment and to interact with society and enjoy everything that the city has to offer. I still enjoy meeting strangers.”

But it’s important to clarify what, exactly, we mean by “going out.” The Mintel study seems to classify “out” as any public space where alcohol is served, like a bar, nightclub, music venue, or restaurant. And while spending time in those kinds of places may be on the decline, what’s simultaneously on the rise is entertaining at home. The perfect middle ground between paying a $20 entry fee to yell into your friend’s ear all night and staring into the abyss of your computer screen until you pass out alone, entertaining at home combines the drinking and socialization of the former with the comfort and cost efficiency of the latter. If our generation is Goldilocks — and, hey, maybe we are — hanging out at a friend’s apartment making blender drinks and eating expensive cheese over a rousing game of Apples to Apples is the “just right” social porridge we crave.

This makes sense for a notoriously DIY-loving group with unlimited access to not only on-demand dating and entertainment, but also recipes, food hacks, and party inspo. “We are all about, you know, creating our own everything today. So that means creating our own experiences, creating our own cocktails,” Chelsea Krost, a life coach, entrepreneur, and millennial marketing strategist, tells Refinery29. “We are taking advantage of all the content that we have on social media and all of the great food and great influencers out there sharing recipes and trying to do them ourselves.”

Sim, however, makes the valid point that this kind of cozy in-home partying really only works with people you know reasonably well. With co-workers, casual acquaintances, or potential romantic interests, it doesn’t always feel comfortable to invite them into your space, or to go into theirs. “Especially amongst co-workers where maybe you’re not totally comfortable going to each other’s places, happy hour serves a key function in developing those relationships,” he says.

Haters, however, will say it’s laziness. Bryant notes that the biggest misconception he’s observed since the results of the survey were released earlier this month is people assuming the whole thing can be couched right alongside pervasive yet largely made-up concepts like millennial entitlement and rampant unprofessionalism. Never mind the fact that the trend seems to be a reality within other demographics, too.

Ironically, anti-going-out culture, even when it’s just as boozy and debaucherous as going-out culture, has spawned a smugness often perpetuated via the very same social media platforms recently used to showcase of impossibly glam nights on the town. If you’ve ever heard someone whose social calendar bears zero resemblance to that of an octogenarian shrug off their weekend plans and say something like, “oh, haha, I love staying in, I’m such a grandma,” then you probably know what I’m talking about. All of a sudden, not going out is cool. Or, at least, it’s not uncool.

“Every generation, I don't really care what age bracket, there's always going to be a sliding scale of people: people that need to be out to, you know, feel significant, people who crave that type of attention,” says Krost. “And then there's going to be the people that are so secure with themselves and so secure in just being in pajamas and watching Netflix.”

Whether we’ve tapped into a weird well of pajama-clad self-confidence that our predecessors didn’t achieve until later in life, or the dance floor-bound extroverts among us are just suddenly pretending to be cool with Monopoly night isn’t for certain. What is clear, though, is that the line outside that club you’re always too scared to attempt to get into may have just gotten a lot shorter. Not that you’d even want to go or anything.

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Thankfully, brands are getting wise to the dilemma and releasing illuminating products that look amazing on ladies of color. When it comes to choosing the highlighter of your dreams, you should stray from pinks and frosty whites if you have a dark complexion. “You want to pick a highlighter almost the same way that you would pick a foundation — it should look like a part of your skin, as opposed to like a disco ball," says makeup artist Nick Barose. "If you’re darker, then I would go for a bronzy gold, and if you’re deep-dark, like Lupita [Nyong'o], for example, I would go for a copper shade. That way it adds a highlight, but it doesn’t add too much of a contrast, because it’s similar to your skin tone."

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When Toccarra Jones joined Tyra Banks’ cast of hopefuls competing to be on top during America’s Next Top Model Season Three, she told the judges she wanted to be the first Black plus-sized supermodel. We were all rooting for this 5’9 brown-skinned curvy model from Dayton, Ohio and her outspoken confidence. Even though she came in third place, her post-ANTM career seemed to be taking off. We cheered her on when Jones signed with Wilhelmina Models in 2005 in their curve division, working with brands like Ashley Stewart, Avon, Torrid, New York and Company, Target, Essence, Vibe, and Smooth magazines.

And when Steven Meisel photographed Jones for Vogue Italia’s historic all Black July 2008 issue, It felt like a coup. The New York Times reported Meisel stood by his casting decision despite editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani’s initial objections. “I wanted to say something about weight, and I’m never allowed to do that,” Meisel told The Times. “I met Toccara and thought, she’s beautiful. What’s the deal with her? She’s great and she’s sexy.”

But since then, there hasn’t been much else to root for.

What is the deal with Jones? Where is she now?

Jones’ website lists an intimate apparel line coming soon. She hasn’t tweeted in almost a year, or updated her Instagram since September 2017. Last July, she tweeted that she was back, without adding any hints of where she might have been. Her last Instagram caption reads “I feel my ancestors in my blood. I am a body of people that are asking not to be forgotten.” The responses appear to be from fans asking where she’s been. Her feed is a mashup of selfies, OOTDs, and photos promoting her lingerie line. But nothing revealing even a tiny bit of the outspoken personality we came to know on America’s Next Top Model.

While there wasn’t much a market for plus-sized models when Jones appeared on the scene, things have changed — just take a look at one of the most recognizable working models today, Ashley Graham. Since being scouted in a mall in 2000 when she was 13, Graham has steadily been raising her profile. For the past 18 years, Graham has been everywhere, becoming the de-facto face of the body-positive movement. Just this year, Graham made her debut in Vogue Italia, in a series of unretouched photos, and also broke barriers by being the first plus model to appear within Sports Illustrated. She’s walking in high fashion shows alongside Kendall Jenner and Kaia Gerber now, and also the (lucrative) face of commercial brands like Lane Bryant, Revlon, Marina Rinaldi, and Swimsuits For All. The 30-year-old is not only vocal about her own journey in accepting her body, but also outspoken about why the fashion industry should serve plus women, considering that 67% of American women are a size 14 or above. In 2017, American Vogue gave Ashley Graham a cover declaring “no norm is the new norm,” making it official: she is the voice of a movement.

When Vogue Italia shared the unretouched photos on Instagram with this caption: “Ashley pushes #bodypositivism to another level. It’s not just about acceptance: it’s about loving who you are and being loved, feeling so comfortable with yourself that you skillfully conduct the sophisticated game of attraction, going beyond convention, sizes, categories, and measurements imposed by modern society.” That is the exact message a lot of us first heard from Jones (whose personality made her a fan favorite) during her season of America’s Next Top Model.

When Jones was on the show in 2004, she was borderline shamed for being plus-sized. But her confidence always prevailed. Who could forget when she said “you can shave my head bald and I’ll still walk around here like I’m a goddess.” Or the time she spoke about a stylist who complained about her not being sample sized saying, “Everyone knows that I am the big girl. Everybody knows I’m a plus-size girl. Is it my fault that she had to work extra hard?”

We reached out to Jones several times, hoping she would add her voice, and anecdotes like the above, to this piece. We didn’t hear back, which is shocking, considering she was one of the first people in mass media to speak unapologetically about what it is to be truly diverse in fashion. She’s always the first person that comes to mind on this issue. It feels like a missed opportunity to not have a real conversation with Toccara. So, girl, when you’re ready, we’ll be here, waiting to celebrate you and all the work you’ve done to bring us this far.

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Whether she's making a statement with a new hair color or avant-garde eyeshadow, the star is hitting the top of our lists for one reason: She has a look that's as unpredictable as it is inspiring. More adventurous than most, it's not easy to nail down just one trend Solange prefers, so we rounded up a few — including her newly bleached-blonde hair and notable soft spot for graphic liner.

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Former Sex and the City star and current New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon usually has keeps her personal life on the private side. But she made an exception on Friday when she posted an Instagram tribute to her oldest child, Samuel, who is transgender, to call attention to the 14th annual Trans Day of Action.

“I’m so proud of my son Samuel Joseph Mozes (called Seph) who graduated college this month,” she wrote in the caption. “I salute him and everyone else marking today’s #TransDayOfAction.”

Seph, who recently graduated from the University of Chicago, is the brother of Nixon’s second child, Charles, both of whom she shares with former partner Danny Mozes. Nixon also has another son, Max, with her wife Christine Marinoni.

I’m so proud of my son Samuel Joseph Mozes (called Seph) who graduated college this month. I salute him and everyone else marking today’s #TransDayofAction. #TDOA

A post shared by Cynthia Nixon (@cynthiaenixon) on Jun 22, 2018 at 12:39pm PDT

Although this is the first time that Nixon has publicly mentioned her son’s gender identity, she has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, both before and after announcing her run for New York governor. Last year, she used her Tonys acceptance speech to call out those who were complicit in the Trump administration’s rollback of LGBTQ+ rights.

On Friday, Nixon also posted a call to action for Democrats in an Instagram post that said if Democrats were “bluer” (i.e. more liberal), there wouldn’t be “75,000 trans dreamers whose lives will be in real danger if they get sent back to the birth countries they no longer even remember.”

Happy #Pride weekend! LGBTQ* people have greater visibility and acceptance than ever before, but members of the trans community are at a much higher risk of experiencing violence and discrimination. Today, and every day, we stand with trans New Yorkers! ✊ #TransDayofAction #Dreamers

A post shared by Cynthia Nixon (@cynthiaenixon) on Jun 22, 2018 at 5:37pm PDT

This statement is emblematic of a large portion of Nixon’s campaign, which — other than the platform on improving New York City’s notoriously oft-delayed subway system — has been focused on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal law enforcement agency tasked with arresting and deporting immigrants. Nixon has called the agency a “terrorist organization,” linking it to the many dangers it causes to the LGBTQ+ community.

In any case, Nixon seems to operating on a platform that represents both her personal views and those of her (possible) future constituents. Miranda Hobbes would be proud.

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