The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are the living, breathing embodiment of Texas beauty standards: big hair, bronzed skin, and makeup that strikes that perfect balance between natural and glam. If you watched Netflix’s documentary series, “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders,” you know that the rookies undergo a makeover under the guidance of Kelli Finglass, current director […]
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Inside Texas Prisons, Women Smuggle Eyeshadow — and Risk Solitary — to ‘Feel Human’
Editor’s note: Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist in Texas whose work is supported by Empowerment Avenue, an organization that seeks to increase and normalize the inclusion of incarcerated writers in mainstream publications. On a hot day in the summer of 2024, the women’s prison visitation room had fewer than a dozen people in it. […]