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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded to accusations of sexism and racism after he repeatedly told senior journalist April Ryan to stop shaking her head during Tuesday’s press briefing.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Spicer’s actions Tuesday, labeling the incident an example of the kind of sexism that women encounter every day. But Spicer said that Ryan was a tough reporter and he was “astonished” at the accusation. He insisted that he treats the White House correspondent no different than male colleagues in the briefing room.

“I think if you ask April, both on and off camera during the briefings, she comes up here often, we have very spirited back and forth,” Spicer said in an interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. “I think that’s what makes her a tough reporter. Frankly I’m kind of astonished; I think if you look at the exchanges I have with [ABC’s] Jonathan Karl, or [NBC’s] Peter Alexander or a number of the other individuals in the press briefing room, Jim Acosta from CNN, we go back and forth all the time, rather heatedly in fact.” 

Ryan had been trying to ask how the Trump administration would revamp its image when Spicer disagreed with the premise of her question and attacked her head shaking.

“I don’t think it takes much of a search to see that we go back and forth on a lot of the things that are thrown around and April is a tough reporter that knows how to throw it out and take it back,” Spicer said. “It’s frankly demeaning  for some folks to say that she can’t take it. We went back and forth, I disagreed with her angle and the way she was coming at the question, but that’s what we do, we go back and forth. And I don’t treat one person different than the next.”

Clinton said during an appearance in San Francisco that Spicer was patronizing to Ryan, the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks.

“Just look at all that’s happened in the last few days to women who were simply doing their job,” she said. “April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off trying to ask a question,” she said.

Spicer disputed that he was being patronizing.

“I have an obligation frankly, Hugh, that when someone comes in and attacks the narrative or makes accusations against the administration, to push back, and push back tough,” he said. “And I don’t look and say ‘well I’m gonna push back lighter on this person because of their gender.’ I think it’s the exact opposite of what Secretary Clinton went after and tried to say somehow it’s patronizing. No, in fact, it’s not patronizing. What it is is treating April Ryan with the same pushback that I would any other reporter in that room.”

Ryan said on MSNBC after the incident that Spicer was doing his job.

“Sean is being the White House press secretary, talking about and trying to make this administration look better than what it does right now, and unfortunately I was road kill today,” she said.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a well-known feminist who recently pledged $650 million to expand women’s reproductive health services and sexual education around the world. During his time in office, Trudeau has expanded his country’s refugee program and even personally called constituents to talk out immigration issues with them. He’s also mastered the right way to shake President Trump’s hand without looking like a fool. It’s easy to say he’s beloved.

And though you may know a lot about his policies and his personal life, some people seemed to have forgotten one little detail about him that’s once again making the rounds ― his ink.

That’s right ― the 45-year-old has a big tattoo on his left shoulder: 

The Prime Minister tweeted about his tattoo, which is actually a combination of two tattoos, in 2012: 

The Haida are native people that reside in the Haida Gwaii territory, British Columbia and parts of Alaska. Robert Davidson (referenced in the tweet) is a renowned Haida artist. 

Part of the reason Trudeau may have gotten the tattoo is because his father, Pierre, was declared an honorary member of the Haida tribe in 1976 while he was serving as prime minister. Davidson’s grandmother “adopted” Pierre into her family’s clan when Justin Trudeau was just 4 years old.

Surprisingly, this occurred a few years after Pierre proposed a controversial policy (the 1969 White Paper) that would assimilate the native populations by eliminating their “Indian status.” 

The younger Trudeau has also come under fire with the Haida after his support of the Site C dam in British Columbia. 

Because of these reasons, some native people classify Trudeau’s tattoos as a form of cultural appropriation.

“It’s like me getting a basketball tattooed to my shoulder,” Haida tattoo artist Gregory Williams told Macleans magazine in 2016. “I don’t play basketball.”

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Warning: This article contains many full-frontal images of fully nude men.

In 2014, photographer Abigail Ekue’s series “Bare Men” was accepted into a juried exhibition composed of nude photos. Shortly thereafter, however, Ekue was alerted by a curator that her work was to be removed from the show because other contributing artists were worried that viewers could be offended by Ekue’s work, which wasn’t as “soft” as the rest of the featured imagery. 

This kind of judgment is exactly what Ekue works to amend through her photographs, which depict the bodies of naked men in a style that’s direct, raw and unapologetic. As the artist said in an earlier interview with The Huffington Post: “I want to remove the stigma of male nudity being taboo and threatening.” 

Why do women’s unclothed bodies appear everywhere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the flashing advertisements in Times Square, and yet the sight of a naked male is still cause for alarm? Why can images of nude women be tacitly accepted as neutral, while images of men are labeled as exclusively queer? Why have conversations surrounding body positivity and self-love eluded men? These are some of the questions Ekue hopes to explore, and render irrelevant, through her project. 

Ekue has been documenting the male body since 2012, having currently photographed well over 500 subjects. She recruits willing models through her website, and happily accepts male-identifying individuals young and old, cis and trans, tattooed or pierced, of all races and body types.

While Euke won’t turn down a subject with chiseled abs, she’s most drawn to models whose bodies are not often depicted unclothed, in art or, really, anywhere. That means big bodies, hairy bodies, wrinkled bodies, bodies that haven’t been toned, waxed or airbrushed. “I wanted something different from the studio-based bodyscapes or flexing physique male nudes,” she said. “No need to ‘get in shape’ or ‘tone up’ for the shoot.”

The most iconic photographer of naked men is Robert Mapplethorpe, whose highly stylized black-and-white close-ups of bodies and parts pulse with queer eroticism. While some of Ekue’s photos are sexual ― indeed, some men even masturbate during the sessions ― sexuality is not the artist’s intention. Instead, she works to evoke beauty, acceptance and normalization, the kind that arises when images are no longer forbidden and become commonplace. 

Most often, Ekue opts to shoot models in their homes, being the spaces they’re most comfortable. Some recline on the couch or mill around in the shower, existing comfortably while just happening to be unclothed. Others achieve and maintain erections, a process Ekue was interested in capturing on camera.

Even when Ekue’s photos are sexual, they stick to her proscribed formula of conjuring rawness, honesty and vulnerability, subverting the notion that solo sex for men lacks the nuance it does for women. “It levels the playing field to witness that men aren’t above setting a scene or drawing out the experience,” Ekue said in a statement. “Then there’s the added layer of knowing they’re being photographed that either thrills or terrifies some of them.”

Recently, pop culture and mainstream media have made an effort to address issues of body image, sex positivity and diverse representation, though primarily these efforts have been geared toward women. Ekue hopes to provide men the same services of visibility and complexity, showing they too can be sensitive, sexy and insecure in their own skin ― and so much more. 

“I hope the images of the ‘Bare Men’ series can illustrate to viewers that naked men aren’t ugly or undesirable,” Euke said. “I want to show that, like women, some men have body-image issues due to internalized societal ideals, but also that some men are confident show-offs. A man being naked isn’t always sexual. I want to remove the stigma of male nudity being taboo and threatening.”

“Bare Men” is on view from June 1 through July 31, 2017, at the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas. 

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In “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne have 10 hours to save a universe. Meanwhile, Rihanna stages a galactic cabaret show and Clive Owen barks orders. 

It’s all in the name of one of summer’s big movie events. The latest from “The Fifth Element” and “Lucy” director Luc Besson, “Valerian” looks part “Star Wars,” part “Avatar,” part “Jupiter Ascending” and all bonkers.

Watch the trailer above. The movie opens July 21.

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Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Padma Lakshmi and a whole host of other stars are teaming up for Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU. Donate now and join us at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, March 31, on Facebook Live. #standforrights2017

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It’s a day for standing up to fear.

Police officers, local Muslim leaders and thousands of others gathered Wednesday to form a human chain on London’s Westminster Bridge, mourning the terror attack that left five people dead and dozens more wounded last week.

The bridge in central London was closed to traffic as people bowed their heads in silence. Just seven days ago, it was a scene of chaos as an attacker drove a car through a crowd of pedestrians, killing three and injuring 50 before fatally stabbing a police officer inside the gates of Parliament. Police fatally shot the suspect, Khalid Masood.

The attack bred tension and fear, reinvigorating discussions about race, religion, identity and immigration, according to reports. 

But Wednesday wasn’t a day for division.

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