Rent-a-Racks and Feral Girls
Manhattan becomes the third-most popular area for Gen Z renters; the Bachelor-to-influencer pipeline is dead; in addition to his Instagram expulsion, Kanye’s banned from performing at the Grammy’s; and are you ready for “feral girl summer”?
IS THE BEST WAY TO SELL YOUR CLOTHES BY RENTING A RACK?, mel
The concept of rent-a-rack, which has existed in Finland for decades, is “pretty uncomplicated: You rent a clothing rack for one week ($99) or two weeks ($149), set your own prices for each item, and a company — in this case, reDress — takes 15% of what you sell.
THE PILL CLUB REBRANDS AS IT EXPANDS BEYOND BIRTH CONTROL, adweek
Now called “Favor,” the company's shifting from a digital platform for contraception to “the most trusted digital platform for women and people who menstruate.”
INSIDE THE ENDOMETRIOSIS COMMUNITIES FORCED TO MEET ONLINE AFTER BEING DISMISSED BY THEIR DOCTORS, screenshot
It can even feel impossible to differentiate the right information from the wrong, particularly when you have medical professionals in scrubs (complete with stethoscopes around their necks) telling the TikTok public that endometriosis is exclusively hormonal. It’s…not.
THESE Y COMBINATOR COFOUNDERS ARE TAKING ON ROBINHOOD TO MAKE CRYPTO INVESTING ACCESSIBLE TO GEN Z WOMEN, fortune
Founders Eve Halimi and Anam Lakhani, both 25, are debuting a new crypto investing platform today geared toward Gen Z women.
CAREER ANXIETY TOP OF MIND FOR GEN ZERS, hrdive
More than half of Gen Z report feeling anxious about their job, “with 34% of respondents saying that their skill set was not usable in the workplace.”
'YOUNG REPUBLICANS MIGHT NOT BE MARCHING IN THE STREETS, BUT THEY ARE MOBILIZING': GEN Z REPUBLICANS EXPRESS OPTIMISM AHEAD OF MIDTERMS, cnn
According to the poll, those younger than 45 make up 60% of the voters who say they cast a ballot for Biden in 2020 and don't approve of the job he is doing.
One last thought:
Love feral girl summer. TBD.