- 1. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- ... with the most innocent-seeming internet trends, women can’t escape the crushing weight of bigoted beauty standards. Aubrey Gordon, an anti-fatphobia author/activist who publishes under the name Your ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 2. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... to connect the living with the dead. The notion was of particular curiosity to Lincoln as he grappled with the death of his son and sought relief from his crushing sorrow. Victoria: Portrait of a Queen by ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 3. Galentine's Day Was Ours: Remembering How The Fake Holiday Became Something Special For Me and My Mo
- (Living)
- ... at the hospital, I decided to give this barista I’d been crushing on my phone number. His name was Morgan. He was tall with dark hair and dark eyes. We went on our first date on what I would later learn ...
- Created on 10 February 2022
- 4. Celebrated Scholar, Author, and Activist Dr. Brittney Cooper Predicts The Future Of Feminism On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
- (Poptarts)
- ... Discovers Her Superpower. Now, she’s back with a helpful handbook called Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood. A treasure trove of resources for young activists—out now, from Norton Young Readers—the ...
- Created on 22 October 2021
- 5. Did you catch the Greta Thurnberg shout out on the new 'This is the Kit' album
- (Music)
- With her cathartic folk-rock project This Is the Kit, Kate Stables intuitively navigates 2020’s ups (recording and touring with the National) and downs (creative processes slowed by COVID-19). “It’s hard ...
- Created on 26 January 2021
- 6. Divide and Dissovle's "Gas Lit" Seeks To Pulverize White Supremacy ...
- (Music)
- ... two-piece Divide and Dissolve. Members Takiaya Reed and Sylvie Nehill embody this vision through heavy doom and dronescapes, often offsetting eerie neoclassical riffs with crushing drums, radiating saxophone, ...
- Created on 22 January 2021
- 7. 30 Years Later, Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Kiss Them for Me” Still Holds Up
- (Music)
- What Stevie Nicks is to rock fans, Siouxsie Sioux is to lovers of goth-rock.The lead singer-songwriter-sorceress Siouxsie Sioux has disclosed in interviews that she is not one for nostalgia, but I just ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 8. Brooklyn-Based Puck's First Solo Project Is A Dance-Worthy Crush Song: BUST Premier
- (Music)
- ... drums. It's kind of part piano trio, part grunge trio. I have to know, what ended up happening with the friend you were crushing on? Haha, well, actually, he wound up being one of my greatest friends. ...
- Created on 15 January 2021
- 9. Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
- (Living)
- ... it’s been 10 days since I last smoked, a mile marker I haven’t seen since 2015. Instead of crushing weed in my 3-chambered grinder, packing the bowl piece of my pink bong, and inhaling every single spec ...
- Created on 18 December 2020
- 10. When Mother is an Astronaut, in Alice Winocour's "Proxima:" BUST Interview ...
- (Movies)
- ... Just like the volatility of many mother/daughter relationships, the film is tender and crushing at the same time. This tone is carried by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s music, often sounding like calming binaural ...
- Created on 06 November 2020
- 11. Sara Schaefer's Contemplative Memoir Invites Us To Laugh Along With Her ...
- (Books)
- ... This talent for wit in the face of hardship serves her well in her chosen profession of comedy; she carves out dizzying career success while experiencing crushing grief at the loss of both a parent and ...
- Created on 23 October 2020
- 12. Venues Are Looking Outside The Box While Saving Their Stages And Here's How You Can Hel
- (Entertainment)
- ... that’s the scariest part for venues right now.” The crushing uncertainty lead by Covid has resulted in many creative alternatives but no data to prove their effectiveness. “We have no information. No market ...
- Created on 17 August 2020
- 13. Aja Volkman Of TWO Teaches Us How to "Pull The Knife Out": BUST Premier
- (Music)
- ... I was able to sort of reconnect with myself, I felt that it was this massive blessing that was bestowed upon me to be released from this chapter that had been crushing my soul in a way. And again, like ...
- Created on 10 August 2020
- 14. It's Time to Stop “Stanning” Politician
- (Feminism)
- ... your dreams; she’s an elected official. She owes it to us to do her job! Anyone who tried to make Sanders out to be a mean old man singlehandedly crushing the dreams of hardworking women desperate to see ...
- Created on 27 June 2020
- 15. This Beauty Company Wants To Help You Pay Off Your Student Loans
- (Living)
- ... the futures of deserving college graduates and give them the freedom to pursue their dreams free from the crushing impact of loans." Student loan debt is truly on the minds of millions of people every ...
- Created on 25 March 2020
- 16. Now That I’ve Experienced My First Music Cruise, I Never Want To See Bands On Land Again
- (Living)
- ... immediately tempered by the crushing despair of trying to exit a venue en masse. Lining up to clear the grounds, hours of traffic to leave parking areas, or risking life and limb to jam myself into late-night ...
- Created on 25 February 2020
- 17. Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
- (Arts)
- ... Dye then began her career as a cam girl where she first learned of Wet and Messy Play (WAM) and Squashing (crushing) fetishes from viewers which ultimately lead her to what many know and love her for: ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 18. The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- ... a curiously misplaced anxiety. Stowe herself found it to be one of the most compelling factors in young women’s ill health, driving them as it did to tightly lace their waists, crushing their ribs and ...
- Created on 10 October 2019
- 19. Vagabon Flexes New Muscles On Sophomore Album "All The Women In Me" ...
- (Music)
- VAGABON All the Women in Me (Nonesuch Records) Vagabon (the project of songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Lætitia Tamko) flexes new muscles with All the Women in Me, the follow-up to her ...
- Created on 26 September 2019
- 20. In Her Final Show, Mitski Confronted The Spectacle of Performance
- (Music)
- ... emotional depth and their cultural criticism. Take this show as a slice of Mitski’s discography and you’ve got: a snarky, crushing rebuke of Americana’s attachment to whiteness and masculinity (“Your Best ...
- Created on 10 September 2019
