- 1. Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
- (Movies)
- What would you do if you found out that freedom was closer than you thought? Or simply a state of mind. Alice, the brainchild of debut director Krystin Ver Linden, is a revenge thriller set in the Antebellum ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 2. Genya Ravan’s “I Who Have Nothing” Melds Gold, Gravel, And Guts
- (Music)
- ... know where he is now, but I think he would have been terribly proud of me,” Ravan said. Ravan's story reads like a page torn from the American Dream playbook. No ma'am, it wasn't a talent scout that discovere ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 3. The Entire Sex Work Industry Is Barred From Applying For COVID-19 Relief
- (Feminism)
- The coronavirus has left no industry untouched. In just four weeks, at least 20 million Americans have lost their jobs. Among those that have lost their jobs are sex workers — strippers, dominatrixes, ...
- Created on 17 April 2020
- 4. Natalie Portman’s Cape and 9 Other Feminist Moments We Loved From The 92nd Academy Awards
- (Entertainment)
- ... matters deeply," the film features an African-American father learning to style his daughter’s natural hair for the first time in the absence of her mother. What made this win even more empowering was ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 5. 10 Feminist Easter Eggs You May Have Missed At The Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show
- (Entertainment)
- ... feather vest was both a Puerto Rican and an American Flag The outfits for this show could have a whole separate list dedicated to them, but there was one in particular that caught our eye. During ...
- Created on 03 February 2020
- 6. Cardi B Wants To Run For Congress And We Don't Hate The Ide
- (Entertainment)
- ... these memes are fuckin but shit ain’t no joke ! Specially[sic] being from New York. Its[sic] sad this man is putting Americans[sic] lives in danger. Dumbest move Trump did till date... I’m filing for my ...
- Created on 14 January 2020
- 7. The Top Feminist Moments From The 77th Golden Globes
- (Entertainment)
- ... the history of the show; here are BUST’s top picks: Awkwafina becoming the first Asian-American to win Best Actress for Farewell View this post on Instagram ...
- Created on 06 January 2020
- 8. “The Hustle” Composer Anne Dudley On Her Creative Process And Storytelling Through Music: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... for Best Original Score (for The Full Monty in 1997), she’s become known for her eclectic choice of projects, which includes other ’90s hits The Crying Game (1992) and American History X (1998), as well ...
- Created on 31 May 2019
- 9. Taraji P. Henson On Committing To Her Relationship, Ignoring Her Age, and "Seeing Her Money
- (Entertainment)
- ... African Americans, and change the face of the mental-health industry to make it more culturally inclusive. They’re accomplishing this by providing scholarships to African-American students pursuing careers ...
- Created on 24 March 2019
- 10. How Lucille Ball Smashed Her Way Through The Patriarchy
- (Entertainment)
- ... that her real-life husband would be cast as her spouse. However, as the 1950s were rife with discrimination, CBS wasn’t on board and didn’t think American viewers would accept her character being married ...
- Created on 19 March 2019
- 11. Tessa Thompson Announces The 4% Challenge, Asks Actors To Commit To Working With Women Directors
- (Entertainment)
- ... who have agreed to the initiative. Top photo: Sorry To Bother You (2018) More from BUST "Gentlemen Prefers Blondes" Is A Feminist Buddy Comedy BUST's 24 Best Movies Of 2018 "The American Meme" Is ...
- Created on 29 January 2019
- 12. How “Crazy Rich Asians” Star Constance Wu Is Using Her Platform To Change Hollywood
- (Movies)
- With leading roles in both Fresh Off the Boat and Crazy Rich Asians, Constance Wu is bringing Asian-American stories to the forefront of pop culture. Here, she discusses diversity in Hollywood, the ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 13. How Mae West Turned Her Arrest For Obscenity Into Her Big Break
- (Movies)
- ... them into champagne! By the time Mae West walked out of those prison gates, she was an American icon. Moral of the story thus far–do not try to mess with the West! Pretty much as soon as her days ...
- Created on 06 August 2018
- 14. Why Amy Adams Isn't Focusing On The Gender Pay Gap In Hollywoo
- (Feminism)
- ... that Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale had been given a much higher paychecks for American Hustle than she and her co-star Jennifer Lawrence received, Harper’s Bazaar reports. Now, Adams is coming forward ...
- Created on 12 June 2018
- 15. Wendy Williams On How To Be "The Queen of All Media": From The BUST Archive
- (TV)
- ... food and feminism. At 46, Wendy Williams has achieved the American dream. She’s got a killer career in TV, radio, and publishing. And her husband of 16 years, Kevin Hunter (who’s also her manager and ...
- Created on 20 April 2018
- 16. The 7 Worst Sex Toy Inventions Of 2017
- (Sex)
- ... sexualities that are different from our heteronormative American culture — we end up seeing some pretty odd (and offensive) sex toys. Check out our picks for the weirdest ones from this past year. ...
- Created on 20 December 2017
- 17. Celebrating The Life And Legacy Of Marsha P. Johnson, Badass Of Stonewall
- (Feminism)
- ... activist Mariah Lopez (another total badass, who opened the first transgender housing unit for Rikers Island, the largest American Prison in 2014). Marsha’s funeral had hundreds of mourners and they ...
- Created on 18 September 2017
- 18. Lolita Files Talks "Who Killed Tupac?" And Representation For People Of Color: BUST Intervie
- (Entertainment)
- Lolita Files, African-American author, screenwriter, and producer, is cool as fuck. She hustled in the corporate world for almost 10 years after college, then gained overnight success after sending ...
- Created on 27 July 2017
- 19. In The Early 1900s, The International Ladies Garment Workers' Union Sewed Seeds Of Change
- (Living)
- ... to buy American. The “Look for the Union Label” ads were part of this strategy. The jingle was written by an ad agency, but real-life union members did the speaking and singing. The television spots ...
- Created on 25 January 2017
- 20. Is Cohousing Right For You?
- (Living)
- ... bofællesskaber, or “living communities”—in the early 1970s. An American couple, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, encountered this way of life in 1980 while studying architecture at the University ...
- Created on 05 May 2016
