Sophia Kercher

Fringe Benefits

When No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal and his wife, Erin Lokitz, renovated their Spanish Revival home in Los Feliz, they decided their furniture would be like their diet — strictly vegan.

“We really emphasized the need for a cruelty-free home,” Lokitz said. She tapped Tatum Kendrick, of the L.A.-based design firm Studio Hus, to source animal-friendly and kid-friendly fabric. Her guidelines? “No suede or mohair, and no silk, wool or down,” Lokitz said. A vegan-furnished household, after all, doesn’t include anything tested on animals or sourced from animals.

On the night of a new moon, a circle of women from the Los Angeles area gathered in a dimly lighted Mar Vista condo swathed in scarlet fabric for a Red Tent gathering. One attendee cradled another middle-aged woman in her arms, as others, ranging from their 20s to 60s, studied tarot cards. A new arrival went to shake the hand of Kate Goldstein, an essential oils professional. “We probably shouldn’t shake hands,” Goldstein said. “I just rubbed someone’s feet.”

This type of activity is not unusual for the Red Tent, which meets at the start of every lunar cycle as a designated space for women to

“I’ve always, wanted nothing more than stability,” the 25-year-old actress tells me while seated at Café Parisien on Larchmont Boulevard—a charming strip in Los Angeles that’s dotted with quaint shops and restaurants. She’s staying at her usual spot nearby in the neighborhood, and she’s practically a regular at this café. It might seem boring, going to the same place all the time. Maybe her publicist suggested it or maybe it’s just…comfortable. Predictable. Stable. For someone like Camila—who...

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The problem with people not believing women’s reports of illness and pain is that we start to doubt ourselves, and when women start to doubt ourselves our lives are literally at risk.

Imagine having to wait months upon months for medical care, or having to travel hundreds of miles to simply see a doctor. This isn’t season three of The Handmaid’s Tale, or a post-apocalyptic America—it’s the possible future of our health care...

I collaborated with Warner Bros., and the creative agency Hello Monday, to write copy for Warner Bros. community-driven and environmental initiatives. The impact-driven Warner Bros. Good website launched in summer 2018.