Every October, starting from when I was young, I remember clambering into my mother’s Volkswagen in our matching “Race for the Cure” shirts to drive into downtown Denver before the sun rose, the roads still bathed in the tangerine glow of the streetlights. The race bibs we wore always said, “I walk for Wilma Parnell,”
Month: October 2024
Meg (she/her) is the associate fashion commerce editor at ELLE.com, where she specializes in shopping stories spanning the fashion, home, and lifestyle categories. Over the past three years, she has devoted countless hours to researching brands, testing hundreds (maybe even thousands!) of products, and deep-diving into market and consumer trends. Her favorite job responsibilities consist
From the very first time she laced up her sneakers at high school track practice through her final race as a collegiate athlete, Olympic runner Colleen Quigley never felt ashamed to have a period. Her parents and coaches normalized the conversation from a young age, she says, and she quickly learned that menstruation is simply