PROLONGING REVENGE THROUGH REINCARNATION

Hey! One of my partners wrote a really good blog about fighting with Cigna.

My insurance plan covers laser facial hair removal as a gender-affirming procedure for transgender people. My partner, a trans woman who is on my insurance, got this procedure done, and getting it reimbursed was like pulling teeth.

This is why I had to contact HR in order to get any meaningful progress on my claim. When the employer is the customer, the employer must be involved in any claims process complicated enough to require human judgment. This means the patient must disclose private medical information to their employer, which can expose them to discrimination. I was lucky in this case, because I'm already out at work and the procedure wasn't for me, but I still had to pass personal medical information through a member of my employer's HR team. If I were a trans woman getting my own laser reimbursed, this process would have forced me to out myself to my employer.* Ideally, there would be no such thing as employer-sponsored health insurance at all.

Isha Ambani in custom Gaurav Gupta at the 2026 Met Gala

From the designer:

In response to the theme Fashion is Art, the look is conceived as a study of the dressed body, where art is not applied, but lived.

At its core, a jewellery-integrated blouse set with heirloom stones from Nita Ambani's private collection, bringing fine jewellery directly into couture. Over 1800 carats of diamonds, alongside emeralds, polki and kundan, are embedded into the garment, transforming it into a living surface of inheritance and form.

The blouse is paired with a handwoven gold tissue saree, one of the oldest living garments in the world.

Its border is hand painted by National Award-winning @swadesh_online artisans and embroidered at the atelier, drawing from the Ajanta frescoes, among the earliest recorded depictions of the saree in Indian art.

The drape carries forward a history that spans centuries, where the body and cloth exist in quiet continuity.

Completing the look, a sculptural resin-draped cape forms a halo around the body, created by folding the gold tissue saree into a preserved, fluid structure, where textile becomes sculpture.

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