global women

The fashion editor in me quite literally gasped (quietly, thankfully) when I walked onto the scene where we met the ladies at the heart and soul of this story, some of them having come in from Laŋarra (Howard Island). It was a picture that…

Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of jamu; both in the traditional sense, and a more modern one. In the ’80s and ’90s, the rise of Western medicine saw jamu beginning to waver in popularity, says Murdaya. But over the…

Our annual Global Women portfolio captures the many ways that women around the world present and represent themselves. Recent history has shown how quickly things can come undone—with that in mind, we found ourselves thinking about what…

Vintage clothing is inescapable at the moment. Red carpets and Instagram feeds are filled with archival Versace (worn in the last year by Jenna Ortega, Bella Hadid, and Zendaya), Jean Paul Gaultier (Hadid, the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan,…

“Chébé is a gift left up in the mountain by God so it can bring down our hair to great lengths,” says Néné Izou, a member of the Bassara Arab tribe of Northern Chad. The female members of Izou’s tribe, and other nomadic women of the region,…

It started, as so many things do these days, on social media and messaging apps. The wording on the flyer, shared on Instagram and Telegram messenger, was simple: “Free skateboarding lessons for girls.”“I had no idea how it would go, how…

“A lot of comics tend to address certain issues, but my style is a bit different; I like to tell a story from beginning to end.” Xueqin says. “The audience might agree with your views, but it’s the minutiae of life, which they see refracted…

When she was 14 years old, Quannah Chasinghorse decided she wanted a traditional Indigenous face tattoo. The Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota model—who has since, at age 19, made an impression on the fashion world after starring in Gucci…

Welcome to Versailles. No, not that Versailles, but Versailles Palace of Rego Park, Queens, a glitzy party palace in the middle of a tired-looking strip mall. It’s also the hub of Bukharian culture, a small but resilient community of…

“During birth, the girl dies so that the woman transformed into a mother can be born.” —Brazilian proverbIn November of 2021, a 60-year-old Indigenous midwife from the Sateré-Mawé ethnicity named Miriam de Alencar Pereira accompanied a…