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21.
Meghan Markle: A Feminist In The British Royal Family
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(Feminism)
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... that for the marriage to happen, she would have to give up her children’s succession rights. Instead, Princess Margaret ended the relationship. Due to the Succession to the Crown Act of 2013, the Queen’s ...
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Created on 21 May 2018
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22.
"Breach Of Promise" Lawsuits Helped Jilted Women Get Justic
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(Feminism)
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... weren’t just planned, but whole were lives turned around. Working women quit their jobs in preparation for married life (losing any source of independent income), and illegitimate children occasionally ...
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Created on 07 May 2018
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23.
11 New Books By Women To Read This Spring
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(Books)
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... die. Each child is given a date, and each grapples with what their end could mean. For Simon, a gay teen coming of age in the 1970s, a fast approaching date is license to chase his dreams; for eldest child ...
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Created on 27 April 2018
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24.
Whatever Happened To Those Girls Who Signed "Purity Pledges"? Hint: It's Not Go
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(Sex)
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... passing on a healthier sexual ethic to their own children. “Learning how to raise a daughter of my own—my girl Molly just turned three—has been one of the most challenging experiences of my life, but it ...
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Created on 10 April 2018
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25.
Thoughts On Dating, Provoked by "The Bachelor
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(TV)
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... my apprehension when it comes to pursuing relationships. I’m a woman, shouldn’t this stuff be in my DNA? Clarity didn’t come until I went to a bridal shower for a childhood friend. During a Q&A aimed ...
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Created on 26 March 2018
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26.
The History Of Pin-Up Girls
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(Entertainment)
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... similarity as they headed to war. It was easy to transpose a childhood sweetheart or crush onto a perfect Petty Girl; after all, that was the whole point of their design!
And just like that, pin-ups ...
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Created on 26 March 2018
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27.
Mermaids Are A Lot More Murderous Than Disney Would Like You To Think
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(Entertainment)
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... food by pretending to be nice and friendly, maybe inviting you to play some Sudoku, followed by ALL OF THE DEATH. They were particularly partial to a nice, crunchy, small child.
OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT! ...
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Created on 12 February 2018
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28.
History Fight: Who Had The Best Royal Wedding Dress?
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(Style)
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... the best in lavish excess, and Mary more than held up her end of the bargain with her dress.
Hooray for child weddings!
The train of Mary’s dress was over 10 feet long and so stuffed with jewels that ...
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Created on 02 February 2018
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29.
The Four Sisters Who All Became Mistresses Of Louis XV
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(Feminism)
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... died in childbirth.
Both King Louis and Louise were grief-stricken. It was arranged for Pauline’s body to be placed in state, to allow for mourners to pay their respects…but then, something truly horrific ...
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Created on 08 January 2018
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30.
17 New Albums To Get Obsessed With Before 2017 Ends: Playlist
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(Music)
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... down near the end with a call to “Come all you wasted/Wretched, and scorned,” the song becomes an anthem for misfits in the vein of Bowie’s defense of the children on “Changes.” Buzzing guitar and perfectly ...
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Created on 07 December 2017
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31.
The Secret Lives Of The Ziegfeld Follies, "The Most Beautiful Girls In The World
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(Living)
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... survived, and moved back home to Canada where she lived a quiet life, occasionally regaling local children with stories of her life that were surely too incredible to be true…
This post originally appeared ...
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Created on 22 November 2017
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32.
11 Books By Women To Read This November
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(Books)
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... him of being involved in protests that are rocking their country. Bahman is put under house arrest, forcing him to decide if he should stay in Iran or leave as his first wife and two children did years ...
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Created on 14 November 2017
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33.
11 New Books By Women To Read Right Now
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(Books)
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... working for The New Yorker who tests the boundaries of love, marriage, and pregnancy, when she takes a work trip to Mongolia while with child, despite the sidelong looks this elicits from others. Her vivid ...
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Created on 25 August 2017
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34.
Sexy Backs, Headless Women And Book Covers
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(Books)
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... out the Vida Count if you’re unfamiliar with this issue — but by women ourselves. We’ve internalized the establishment’s dismissal to the point where we can write a book about women, and maybe about children, ...
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Created on 17 August 2017
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35.
This Incredible Board Game Is Raising Awareness About Arranged Marriage: BUST Interview
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(Feminism)
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... cards have “bridal” qualities on them, the Aunty gets closer to you. “Your 24-year-old sister just had her fourth child. The aunty moves 3 spaces closer to you.”
The girls do what they can to stay ...
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Created on 16 August 2017
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36.
11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer
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(Books)
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... an act of literary virtuosity. From her father’s fatal overdose to her brother’s dying child, Andrea’s perspective allows for some deep digging into the shadows sides of life: “... do I sit quietly and ...
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Created on 10 July 2017
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37.
How This 25-Year-Old Woman Is Fighting Boko Haram - And What You Can Do To Help: BUST Interview
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(Living)
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... “Children who are deeply traumatized by exposure to violence become more vulnerable to perpetuating violence. As long as these attitudes are held, women are not safe.”
“These groups are appealing to ...
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Created on 20 June 2017
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38.
Amber Tamblyn, Before She Painted It Black: From The BUST Archives
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(Movies)
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... and Dennis Hopper and Neil Young, both close friends of her father, are Tamblyn’s godparents. “My dad was adamantly against me acting, because he was a child actor,” Tamblyn says. But it was his career ...
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Created on 25 May 2017
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39.
The Manchester Bombing Of An Ariana Grande Concert Targeted Young Girls - And We Need To Talk About That
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(General)
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... Georgina Callander died of her injuries with her mother at her bedside. She was a student at Runshaw College.
The BBC writes that the injured include 12 children under the age of 16. Several people are ...
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Created on 23 May 2017
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40.
11 New Books By Women To Read Right Now
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(Books)
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... of long, strange songs: twins, sisters, and twin sisters; lost children; moldy ceilings; deer turned brutally into venison; sex acts that instinctively lean toward violence. Amid these harsh strokes of ...
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Created on 21 April 2017