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PUBLISHED BY READ ONLINE | SIGN UP Stories about gender and identity Dear reader, For six years, it's been our pleasure to deliver essential stories about gender and identity to your inbox with Lily Lines. During this time, the Lily team made an award-winning documentary, published nearly 500 comics, read dozens of books together and shared plenty of Your Takes. More recently, one of our former team members, Caroline Kitchener, won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on abortion — stories that were always a priority for the Lily and its readers. As the team takes on new roles at The Post dedicated to this coverage, this is the final issue of the Lily Lines newsletter. You can still find our reporting and perspectives on gender and identity across the site, but especially in our reimagined Style section, which launches soon. The corresponding Style Memo newsletter will cover the personalities, conversations and cultural trends that shape American life. Lily Lines readers have been signed up to receive it in their inbox starting Sept. 8. To opt out of receiving Style Memo, click here. Until next time, Team Lily 🖤 What aging looks like now Story by Rachel Tashjian Photos by Victor Boyko/Getty Images What does it mean to "look your age?" In a recent story published by Allure, Charlize Theron addresses a reality that few people in Hollywood want to face: She is, in fact, getting older. Discussing the new imagery from her run of two decades and counting as the face of Dior's J'adore perfumes, she said that the succession of campaigns is like a yearbook that shows the ways she has grown and aged — but that many people seem to think these natural changes are the unfortunate results of plastic surgery. "My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging," she told the magazine, but "people think I had a facelift. They're like, 'What did she do to her face?' I'm like, 'B----, I'm just aging! It doesn't mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.'" Read more     ICYMI A curated list of top stories Parenting Millennials are tired of trying to be perfect moms This pressure to be perfect is acute for millennial moms who arrived at parenthood in the age of social media. They are over it. By Caitlin Gibson Read more   Politics Justice Barrett says scrutiny welcome and she's developed a 'thick skin' "Justices and all judges are public figures, and public criticism kind of comes with the job," she said. By Robert Barnes Read more   Technology Ignored by police, twin sisters took down their cyberstalker themselves The Conradis twins were two of several women in the clutches of the same man who spread their nude photos on the internet — and were told that what they were experiencing was not criminal. By Ari Schneider Read more   Well+Being A mother's stress may change the makeup of her child's microbiome Research linking stress and microbiome health studied the impact of adversity experienced by women, including the effect of stress before a child was conceived. By Rachel Zimmerman Read more   Morning Mix A 4-year-old requested a birthday party theme: Female Supreme Court justices Jordan Nguyen knows about the six women who have served on the Supreme Court. Her 4th birthday party was celebrated in honor of them. By Kyle Melnick Read more   Entertainment | Review 'Bottoms': Campy tale of high school losers comes out on top Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri star in "Bottoms," an irreverent yet politically relevant queer-centric high school farce. By Olivia McCormack Read more   Advice | Perspective Ask Sahaj: My cousin was my bestie. She dropped me 'like a hot potato.' A reader feels hurt after their cousin stopped emailing, then said she has no time to chat. By Sahaj Kaur Kohli Read more   Comics | Perspective Am I paranoid — or just prepared? How true crime made me more alert. Being a true crime "fan" is complicated because you're often wrestling with consuming it as a form of entertainment and as a form of self-preservation. By Fabiola Lara Read more     Regram A share from @thelilynews   Manage my email newsletters and alerts Unsubscribe from Lily Lines | Privacy Policy | Help You received this email because you signed up for Lily Lines or because it is included in your subscription. ©2023 The Washington Post 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071