- 1. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- ... were shocked and offended seeing how Lensa’s AI-generated avatars altered their appearances: from exposing chests to erasing double chins and lightening skin tone; It’s become clear that even while engaging ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 2. "We're All Going To The World's Fair" Is A Slow-Burning Exploration of The Dark Side of Social Media ...
- (Movies)
- ... an eerie illustrated avatar in lieu of his real face, all of which gives an unsettling subtext to his guidance and concern when it’s revealed that he’s much older than the baby-faced girl. Cobb’s raw ...
- Created on 15 April 2022
- 3. Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
- (Feminism)
- ... avatar strikes me as reductionist, she defined the way that people thought about culture, society, and themselves through her writing. Her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which chronicled the ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 4. Netflix's "Avatar the Last Airbender" Prioritizes Asian American & Indigenous Representation In Recent Cast Updat
- (TV)
- After building up a cult following over the last 15 years, Nickelodeon’s Avatar the Last Airbender is set for a live-action adaptation via Netflix, set to start production next month in Vancouver. While ...
- Created on 04 November 2021
- 5. Old Navy Revamps Women's Plus-Size Line With New BODEQUALITY Launch, Including Expanded Sizes and No Price Difference ...
- (Style)
- ... brand has not taken their revamp lightly; leading up to the initiative they surveyed hundreds of women about body image and even scanned the bodies of 389 women, to create realistic digital avatars with ...
- Created on 19 August 2021
- 6. Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
- (Feminism)
- ... became institutions for me. But this is not all about me fighting Brian Kemp. He is an avatar for a rot that exists in politics. A rot that says certain people are not just not worth the effort, but not ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 7. How These Women Cartoonists Shaped the Flapper Image in the Roaring ’20s
- (Arts)
- ... clever banter, progressive women’s-rights ideas, and an Olive Oyl silhouette, long before Popeye creator E.C. Segar popularized it. Her gangly, big-footed avatar appeared in a crossover with a Brinkley ...
- Created on 10 August 2020
- 8. "The American Meme" Is Most Disturbing Movie Of The Yea
- (Movies)
- ... the social media personalities he interviews for this film as real people, rather than subjects in a study or avatars of moral degradation. He doesn’t appear in the film to ask the questions, and yet it ...
- Created on 13 December 2018
- 9. "Hearts Beat Loud" Is Gentle, Heartfelt Fu
- (Movies)
- ... Otherwise, you have a situation like Aaron Sorkin’s ill-fated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, in which the audience is expected to believe that Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford’s author-avatar characters ...
- Created on 26 June 2018
- 10. The Scarlet Bob Is Saving The World From Boring Fashion, One Sequin At A Time
- (Style)
- ... didn’t know what to make of me at all. Photo by Lanna Apisukh So tell us more about The Scarlet Bob. To me, she seems like a fabulous style avatar or a fashion superhero that Iris Apfel would hang ...
- Created on 20 June 2018
- 11. Heather Benjamin's Humanoid Art Has Us Swoonin
- (Arts)
- ... in our current political climate, Benjamin’s work features avatars — part women, part animal — that, in her own words, she uses to “sort through her own trauma and self-analysis, and seeks to give faces, ...
- Created on 12 December 2017
- 12. Björk's "Utopia" Tests The Boundaries Of Pop Music: BUST Revie
- (Music)
- Björk Utopia (Out November 24) Björk has always tested the boundaries of pop music, and Utopia is no exception. While the artist’s eighteenth release has moments that are reminiscent of earlier ...
- Created on 21 November 2017
- 13. "Professor Marston And the Wonder Women" Is A Traditional Romantic Dramedy—With Polyamory: Revie
- (Movies)
- ... distressed avatar of America’s moral authority (Connie Britton), who wants to know why his comics (aimed at children, no less!) are so provocative and sexual. Bill Marston and Elizabeth are at Harvard—he ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 14. “Wonder Woman” Director Patty Jenkins Schools James Cameron On “Strong Female Characters”
- (Movies)
- Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has thrown a Lasso of Truth around James Cameron after he criticized her depiction of Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman. Cameron — who directed Titanic and Avatar ...
- Created on 25 August 2017
- 15. Make Your Own Feminist Embroidery Hoop: DIY
- (DIY)
- ... design until you have a continuous chain of small stitches. Looks great! You’re doing it! Yay! This whole design took me approximately 3 episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender to complete, so give or ...
- Created on 12 September 2016
- 16. The True Story Behind An Epic '90s Literary Hoax: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... narrative. Hearing her story, I understand Albert's need at the time to live through an "avatar." Personas can offer people an escape from their selves and allow them to experience things that cut too close ...
- Created on 09 September 2016
- 17. Travel Back To 1969 With The Shaggs' 'Philosophy Of The World' Reissue: BUST Revie
- (Music)
- The Shaggs were three sisters, Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggin, hailing from Fremont, New Hampshire, who formed a band, at their father’s insistence, in 1968. Daddy (Austin Wiggin, Jr.), after much practicing ...
- Created on 08 September 2016
- 18. How Demi Lovato Helped Me Recover From Sexual Assault
- (Music)
- One year to the day after I was raped, I stood alone, smashed between groups of giggling girls and their friends. The line to meet Demi Lovato before that evening’s concert twisted endlessly through ...
- Created on 02 September 2016
- 19. 6 Books About Female Artists You Should Read Right Now
- (Arts)
- ... in art, it’s a good start to seeing a survey of female artists’ contributions over a range of genres. 6. Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (Sexual Cultures) by Uri ...
- Created on 28 July 2016
- 20. ‘Beta Males’ Want To Kill Women Because They Can’t Get Laid
- (Feminism)
- ... of him as an avatar. They credit him for bringing the issue of “involuntary celibacy” and what it can do to a man to light. Others lament the fact that he killed his roommates rather than 200 sorority ...
- Created on 04 February 2016
