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6 True Crime Podcasts Hosted by Women to Add to Your Queue Right Now
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(Entertainment)
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... killer who preyed on young Black girls in DC in the 1970s and is still unidentified to this day, the disappearance of Tremaine Peek, the murder of Latisha Frazier, and many other cases. Crime Noir also ...
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Created on 31 January 2023
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Nina Hagen Returns with New Feminist Anthem Single and Video “United Women Of The World”
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(Music)
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Nina Hagen first rose to fame as an actor and musical theatre performer in East Germany in the early 1970s and by mid decade, made her way to freedom in West Germany. Hagen was trained in the Weimar ...
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Created on 16 November 2022
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Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
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(TV)
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... 1950s, including the Mattachine Society–an early secret organization for LGBT activists. Police entrapment and prosecution under anti-sodomy laws through the 1970s left many queer people feeling hunted ...
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Created on 13 October 2022
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Before Nirvana And Soundgarden, A Young Black Performer Named Tina Bell Was Making Grunge Rock But You Have Probably Never Heard Of Her.
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(Music)
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... She got her start singing at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle’s Central District, the center of the city’s Black community throughout the 1970s. As a teenager, she appeared on stage in a performance ...
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Created on 10 August 2022
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In this Security Job, Sexism and The Patriarchy Are Actually Helping Women Excel
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(Feminism)
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... engineers dates all the way back to the earliest years of information technology. In the 1970s, a teenage hacker named Susy Thunder (neé Headley)—a former sex worker and rock 'n' roll groupie who claimed ...
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Created on 30 June 2022
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Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
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(Movies)
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... seeing nothing but the small family of white plantation owners where she compares her face to a sketch in an Anna Karenina novel while staring doe-eyed into a mirror, to being immersed in the 1970s Black ...
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Created on 08 April 2022
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The Sustainable Fashion Trends You Should Be Adding To Your Shopping Cart This Year
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(Style)
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... she is better known as— capsule wardrobing.
And while this trend appears to be rising in 2022, it dates all the way back to the 1970s.
Susie Faux, Founder of the London clothing boutique Wardrobe, ...
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Created on 12 January 2022
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The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
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(Books)
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... the 1970s and it is up to her to figure out how Jane got stuck time traveling. The adventure ensues over the back-drop of love.
Photo of Michaela Coel by Jeaneen Lund
Photo of Emilia Clark ...
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Created on 21 December 2021
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St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp
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(Music)
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... of a montage, to create the texture of what it really is like to be on tour, which is so sexy. [laughs]
CB: Yeah, it’s exactly what everyone imagines. Like in those 1970s tour stories. Private jets, ...
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Created on 30 November 2021
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Karen Black's Dreaming of You (1971-1976) Elicits Dreamy Introspection from the Late Singer's Vault of Storytelli
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(Music)
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While the late Karen Black is known more for her acclaimed 1960s/1970s acting career in films including Five Easy Pieces and Nashville, she was also a prolific singer/songwriter. Several of Black’s ...
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Created on 18 November 2021
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Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go's Talks Sisterhood, Sobriety, and the Band's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inducti
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(Music)
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Kathy Valentine was just 14 years old when first caught sight of her idol, 1970s glam rock bassist Suzi Quatro.
“It split the ground right open,” the Go-Go’s bassist recalled in her 2020 memoir, ...
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Created on 29 October 2021
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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... Rock on the cover is an approach to remain socially relevant with a younger, more liberal demographic; however, Playboy began gradually diversifying its content starting back in the 1970s. Darine Stern ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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Trailblazing Filipina American Rock Band Fanny, Gets Their Due in Documentary, "Fanny: The Right to Rock" ...
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(Music)
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Directed and produced by Bobbi Jo Hart
Fanny was one of the first all-women rock bands to release an LP on a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). The nucleus of the band was Jean and June Millington, ...
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Created on 28 September 2021
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Final Girl and Four Decades of Halloween: Jamie Lee Curtis Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice International Film Festival
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(Movies)
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... is what saves Laurie. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the horror genre we know and love was heavily influenced by Italian horror, known as “Giallo.” These Giallo films combined erotic pulp fiction and ...
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Created on 16 September 2021
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Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
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(Feminism)
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... activism career spent centering Black women and girls.
Born and raised in the Bronx in the 1970s and ’80s, Burke was a bookworm and a music lover as a child. She was inspired by her literary hero, Maya ...
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Created on 14 September 2021
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Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
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(Feminism)
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... and it had not been digitized before. We're not sure anyone had ever really seen this interview that had been done in the 1970s, and that was pretty thrilling. Even though the quality of the video as you'l ...
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Created on 13 September 2021
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Free Your Mind: New Non-Fiction From B-Movie Queen Elvira, Mistress of Darkness, and Believing, a Cultural Analysis on Gender-Violence from Anita Hill
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(Books)
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... her Movie Macabre days, showing off her affection for corny puns even when she’s recalling painful memories. Her book is a must-read for anyone interested in 1970s Hollywood, horror movies, or just Elvira ...
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Created on 09 September 2021
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Time of the Season for Loving: Diverse Romance Titles To Heat Up Your Summer
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(Books)
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... subway every day. But as August learns more about her enigmatic crush, she realizes that Jane is actually displaced from the 1970s, trapped on the Q train, and unsure how any of this happened. It’s up ...
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Created on 23 August 2021
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Dr. Carol Queen Commemorates Activist Margo St. James With a Guided Tour of the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
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(Feminism)
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This year, we lost a great feminist foremother: Margo St. James, the trailblazing leader of the modern sex workers’ rights movement. Though the term “sex work” itself wasn’t coined until the late 1970s, ...
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Created on 19 July 2021
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Don't Forget Your Story: Why Kink Will Always Belong in Prid
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(Living)
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... and grab lunch,” my mom suggested. The adults in my life had seen Pride parades before. These adults had come of age in the 1970s, and seeing Dykes on bikes was not a priority over lunch. “Not yet!” I ...
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Created on 03 June 2021