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After working toward running her own outdoor-adventure business, Kelly Kimple bought a company with a storied history only to begin an adventure of a lifetime: keeping a travel business going during a pandemic. The Fort Collins woman trained and worked for years as a conservation biologist and eventually took a position with Adventures in Good Company, a travel-adventure business that leads trips for women across the country and around the world. “I was getting ready for something different. I’d been doing research all…

In early March 2023, well-known professional esports and entertainment organization FaZe Clan announced that it had signed its first all-female esports team. Competing under FaZe Clan’s Valorant banner, the team features five pro players who are already pretty known within the esports space: Jennifer “refinnej” Le, Emma “emy” Choe, Vannesa Emely “panini” Emory, Madison “maddiesuun” Mann, and Diane “di^” Tran. The announcement of this new team brings FaZe Clan’s team roster up to a total of 14 teams. “It’s been a long…

Who really likes anthology movies? We’re not talking about multistory films like Short Cuts or Wild Tales – those are often good, even great – but those bundles of shorts by different directors. More often than not they are lucky-dip packages of horror stories, but there are also more pretentious upmarket ones, held together by some thin thematic connective tissue, like the Cities of Love series. Tell It Like a Woman’s only obvious unifying concept is that all the shorts were directed by female directors. It’s depressing…

Authors including Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Sita Brahmachari are part of an all-female shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie medal for writing.The prize awards outstanding achievement in children’s writing and features seven authors. Burton, Lawrence and Brahmachari are all first-time shortlistees as is Manon Steffan Ros. The shortlist is completed by Katya Balen, who won the award in 2022, Louise Finch and Ruta Sepetys.Alongside the prize for writing, the shortlist of six books for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for…

IANS San Francisco, January 26 Lauren Sanchez, girlfriend of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, can soon be known as the first person to lead an all-woman space mission on Blue Origin. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, she revealed that Bezos is encouraging her to put together a five-member female crew to fly on a Blue Origin rocket to space. The Emmy-winning TV host-turned-helicopter pilot became a well known name when her relationship with the Amazon founder was…

Beitske Visser of Netherlands and Sirin Racing (95) leads Marta Garcia of Spain and CortDAO W Series Team (19) during the W Series Round 6 race on October 02, 2022 in Singapore.Clive Mason | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesFormula 1 is planning to develop a new women's racing series.The championship — which would be for younger drivers aged 16 to 22 — is planned to run alongside the similarly all-female W Series which has hit financial difficulties, canceling its last 3 events in 2022.It is believed that the series would…

To Lebanese guitarist Lilas Mayassi, heavy metal music speaks a language. “It’s the language of power,” she said, “the language of rebellion.”For Mayassi and her band, Slave to Sirens, those two languages have given her group a voice in a country where power has been widely abused and rebellion has become increasingly dangerous. The dramatic challenges Mayassi and her group have faced over the last few years – exacerbated by their role as the first, and only, all-female heavy metal band in Lebanon – are chronicled in a…

Here is an astonishing work of survival and resilience from Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós; their docufiction film packs a pulpy punch, yet is also rooted in an urgent political reality. Informed by the 2018 Brazilian general election, this combustible portrait of life on the margins is an engrossing, volatile ride through Sol Nascente, a crime-ridden slum on the outskirts of Brasília.Sharing their names with their characters, nonprofessional locals Chitara and Léa are cast as swaggering half-sisters who watch over a…

Formed to battle the endless killing of rhinos in South Africa, the Black Mambas are an all-female anti-poaching unit who tirelessly work to protect wildlife in Balule Nature Reserve and Kruger national park. Dressed in camouflage uniforms and trained in a military-style boot camp, the women come off as formidable guardians of environmental justice. In showing their day-to-day activities, Lena Karbe’s documentary could have easily fallen into the trap of empty valorisation; in contrast, the film digs deep into the complex…

First introduced in the long-awaited "Black Widow" solo movie finally released in 2021 after repeated delays, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is the wayward adopted sister of original Avenger Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson). A deadly assassin with a serious chip on her shoulder, she popped up again in "Hawkeye," the Disney+ series centered on Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), which saw her clash with the Avenging Archer, believing him responsible for Natasha's death. But by the end of the series, the two…