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Photo by Trevor Cokley, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsChauncey Gooden Is Playing Both Ways in the Trenches at Colorado: "Me and the Bench, We Don't Get Along"
Colorado sophomore guard Chauncey Gooden took defensive-tackle snaps in a 14-13 win over Georgia Tech — a two-way assignment linemen lost in 1964.
Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on PexelsGLP-1 Use Hits 11 Percent of U.S. Adults, Gallup Finds. Cost Drove Most of the Switch to Compounded Versions.
Gallup's new poll puts current GLP-1 use at 11 percent of U.S. adults, up from 3 percent in 2024, and finds cost drove most switches to compounded versions.
Photo by Jonathan Cooper on PexelsComics Got the Fat Superhero Right in 2016. Hollywood Still Hasn't Made Her Movie.
Valiant's Faith Herbert sold out five printings and earned an Eisner nod in a year. Paramount hired a screenwriter for her film in 2023, then went quiet.
Photo by Charles O'Rear, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsMitrice Richardson Was Released Alone at 12:28 A.M. — What Los Angeles County's Own Record Admits
An honors psychology graduate was booked over an $89 tab, then let go into Malibu Canyon with nothing. Seventeen years on, the case is still open.
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Why I Hate the Body Positivity Community
A manifesto on race, culture, standards, and the strange decision to reinvent something Black women had already built.
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Events Worth the Trip
The 6th Annual Plus Swap
A plus-size-only clothing swap running since 2021, back at Temple's Howard Gittis Student Center. Drop-offs from 9am, doors at 10.
The Evocative Atelier Fall Fantasy Formal
A size-inclusive lingerie boutique turns its shop floor into two fantasy-literature sets for an afternoon, with local authors, bookstores and a best-dressed ballot. 21 and over, 3pm to 7pm.
Very Thickmas Lingerie Trunk Show
A plus-size lingerie trunk show and day party from the Thickland team, in Decatur. The listing had not published a venue address at the time of writing.
Saga
Thirty thousand years of receipts, printed on a shirt. From the Venus of Willendorf to Rubens, Saga wears the proof that fullness was the standard long before it was a trend.
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