Once trapped in bulimia and anorexia, our author sees the return of fragile bodies, Ozempic glamour, and weight-loss slogans: it’s threatening teenagers all over again.
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The murder of an 14-year-old girl in Italy by her ex-boyfriend has sparked reflection on how patterns of control and possession, long associated with adult relationships, are now increasingly present among adolescents.
Updated Jan. 3, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. Happy birthday to environmental activist Greta Thunberg, born on this day in 2003. Who is Greta Thunberg? Thunberg rose to prominence as a teenager after campaigning outside the Swedish parliament in 2015. She held a sign saying “School Strike for Climate.” Her campaign inspired thousands of young people […]
When I blew the candles on my 29th birthday cake, on March 27th 2020, it was only 10 days after the first lockdown had begun in France. Still, I felt lucky. I remember telling myself that, even though the day included no friends, at least in 2021 for the much more momentous passage into la […]
In the southern city of Marseille, actor Selman Reda draws on his personal experiences to explore the ins and outs of being Muslim in secular France.
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Extra! First Case Of Long-Term HIV Remission
Libération, July 21, 2015 What is being hailed as the world’s first known case of long-term remission from HIV, in an 18-year-old French woman born with the virus, is featured in today’s Paris-based newspaper Libération with the headline, “Curing HIV.” The girl, who was born in 1996, contracted the virus that causes AIDS from her […]
Claire, who raised her daughter near Paris as an atheist, has seen the teen fall in love with a deeply conservative young man from Egypt. The dream is to escape to live under Sharia law.