The high-heels-for-women rule may not appear in the official Cannes handbook—and organizers may have distanced themselves from the requirement—but a female star choosing to walk the red carpet in flats (or dispensing with shoes altogether), still serves as a pleasingly rebellious two fingers up to the constraints placed on women. As well as, oftentimes, a very memorable look.

Barely into her 20s, Aaron Rose Philip is a model, who has fronted campaigns for Moschino, Collina Strada and Sephora. She’s an author, who published her first memoir, This Kid Can Fly: It’s About Ability, at 14. “I also happen to be a Black transgender woman and I have quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy,” she says.

The Iron Dames are founded, managed, and raced by women—the only all-female lineup in endurance racing history. Founded by former racer and entrepreneur Deborah Mayer in 2018, the Iron Dames set out to ease women’s barriers to entry into a sport which has, since its inception, been populated almost entirely by men—many of whom were introduced to motorsports by their fathers. As it turns out, those fathers have daughters too.

Six women-directed films to watch and support this awards season.

"I Just Wanna Surf" is a snapshot of the modern-day surfing lifestyle as it actually happens. It is an ode to friendship, community, and the pure joy of catching waves.

In a remote region of the Amazon, a group of women are working to change the way the entire country views and performs birth.

Many Indigenous tribes around the world have distinctive traditional facial tattoos—the Māori have Tā Moko, the Inuit have Kakiniit, and the Gwich’in have the Yidįįłtoo, which often appear as three distinctive lines on the chin, as well as lines on the cheeks or corners of the eye.

Photographer Soraya Zaman has dedicated the last few years of their work to capturing trans life—and the experiences of transmasculine individuals specifically—in arresting portraits, which were compiled into the 2019 book American Boys and are currently the subject of a solo exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.