Kara DioGuardi says baring her body on stage during last season's finale was a "defining moment"

This Dolby Atmos mix compiled by Giles Martin is the best version yet of this classic pop album

Inspirational songs and ads want us to believe we're all model-perfect—but can't we be empowered without beauty?

A feminist waxes on about bikini waxing.

Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, June 7, 2000

We should all really be paying attention to how legal immigrants are "unnaturally" destroying America

One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.

Beautiful babes, psycho-bitch lesbos and dirty-talking hunks populate summer's most shameless piece of trash since "Wild Things."

Helen Mirren proves that winning an Oscar for playing a British monarch 20 years your senior doesn't mean you can't rock a two-piece suit.

Rio de Janeiro boasts the most famous beach in the world. From dangerous muggers to skimpy ball hangers, the title was hard won.

Ads against female genital mutilation are showing up in the crotch of bikini bottoms.

McKinney brought to mind the killing of Trayvon Martin, another black teenager deemed to be not where he belonged

Each month I allow a stranger to rip out the hair along my vulva. I'm not sure if I can justify it any more

The "Gone Girl" actress writes about the Catch-22 of being a woman in this week's Lenny Letter

Paul Dano and John Cusack portray the "Pet Sounds" genius in two different, significant eras of his life