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Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
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(Living)
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... talking about. Here there are echoes of the capitalistic values of out-and-out cults like NXIVM, where an all-consuming push toward a particular brand of personal success becomes a system for abuse and ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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Killing The Look: YouTuber Bailey Sarian Blends True Crime And Makeup Tutorials
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(Style)
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... Employees Demand Reform Opposed To Boycott In Response To Racist Workplace Culture
Cults Going Corporate: Why The NXIVM Story Feels So Familiar
You Had Us At Sarah Paulson: Ryan Murphy's 'Ratched' Is ...
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Created on 17 February 2021
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Cults Going Corporate: Why The NXIVM Story Feels So Familiar
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(TV)
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...
Seduced, meanwhile, is a much more cut-and-dry, look-at-this-scary-cult narrative that gawks at NXIVM: look at the hypnosis-like, manipulative methodology that looks so obviously like other cults like ...
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Created on 10 December 2020
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Matty Healy of 1975 Announces New Pledge to Only Perform At Gender-Balanced Festivals
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(Music)
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1975’s frontman, Matty Healy, has announced on Twitter that the band will only be playing festivals with a gender-balanced lineup. After another approaching festival season with largely male-based acts, ...
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Created on 12 February 2020
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This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard O
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(Arts)
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... of Greek rituals in detail, and, as a result, his writing has also been relied on as a source of information about ancient pagan cults and Greek mythology. While his telling of the story of Baubo is invaluable, ...
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Created on 30 January 2020
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Why Everyone’s Obsessed With That Lauren Duca Profile
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(Living)
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Who is Lauren Duca?
This is the question that Scaachi Koul raises in her viral piece on the journalist published on Buzzfeed Tuesday. Koul explores Duca’s authenticity or lack thereof, juxtaposing ...
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Created on 18 September 2019
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"Mars: Stories" By Asja Bakićć Is A Skillfully Disortienting Collection That's Out Of This Wor
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(Books)
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... robot love, clone love, high school love, and cults. Sometimes the writing feels uneven—readers will frequently have no idea what’s happening until the end of a story, when everything comes together. The ...
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Created on 27 August 2019
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Lizzo's Audio Went Out Again This Weekend At Coachella — But She Still Killed I
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(Entertainment)
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Lizzo is having a triumphant weekend: she released her album Cuz I Love You last Friday, which went to number one on iTunes (and surpassed Beyonce’s Homecoming album), but when Coachella’s audio went ...
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Created on 22 April 2019
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The C-Words Of Coachella: Capitalism, Consumerism, And Cults
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(Living)
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... in the US in 2011 and integrated with Facebook that year) and the growing collective obsession with celebrities contributed to Coachella’s growth.
C IS FOR CULTS Given the level of hype surrounding Coachella, ...
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Created on 10 April 2019
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"Marharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment With The Beatles' Guru" Shows A Journey Through "Heavenly Hell" ...
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(Books)
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... life she describes includes a little of what all cults seem to involve: rejection, money, sex, and just a touch of the supernatural. Shumsky rubbed elbows with the Beatles, Donovan, and Mia Farrow until ...
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Created on 26 October 2018
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Week Of Women: August 17-23, 2018
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(Entertainment)
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... she loves that also brings her despair.” Out Friday, August 17. See BUST’s August/September print issue for review.
Motels by Cults
As part of Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious Series, in which ...
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Created on 16 August 2018
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"Weetzie Bat" Is Going To Be A Movi
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(Movies)
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... and find happiness in a city known as much for the glamour of fame and fortune as the darkness of cults and crime.
Top photo: Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (HarperCollins: 1989)
More from BUST ...
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Created on 12 July 2018
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How Donia Jessop Became The First Woman Mayor In Hildale, Utah—Former Home To A Polygamist Cult
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(Feminism)
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There’s some serious shit going down in the red rock desert of Southern Utah. Six years ago, polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ...
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Created on 06 June 2018
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7 New Albums To Get In Your Earholes Today: Playlist
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(Music)
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... either party won’t be disappointed. 3/5 — Kathryn Hensch
CULTS Offering (Sinderlyn)
Cults sticks to its signature mix of Beach Boys-style harmonies and retro-pop ballads on their latest release, Offering. ...
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Created on 18 October 2017
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Week of Women: October 6-October 12, 2017
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(Entertainment)
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... 11.
MUSIC
Offering by Cults
Cults’ third album is more danceable and less moody than their earlier work, and it’s “a well-crafted album and the perfect soundtrack for summer nostalgia,” writes ...
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Created on 05 October 2017
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Week Of Women: September 1-7, 2017
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(Entertainment)
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... and all your other AHS faves return in the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s horror series, this one focusing on the theme of “cults” - we don’t know much, but we know it includes creepy clowns, the ...
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Created on 31 August 2017
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WTF Are "Patriarchy Tees" And Why Do They Exist
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(Feminism)
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... are victimhood cultures, or should I say cults?"
"Women are not steady sources of rationality. They can be steady sources of love, and intelligence. Women can be compliments to a man and vice versa." ...
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Created on 06 May 2017
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Photographer Jackie Dives Tells Stories That Need To Be Told: Lady Shooters
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(Arts)
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... photographer living in Vancouver, B.C. She is drawn to photographing emotionally intense situations. Her work has tackled such diverse topics as abortion, menstruation, drug addiction, and polygamist cults. ...
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Created on 28 March 2017
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9 Women You Didn't Learn About In History Class But Should Hav
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(Feminism)
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... She became known as a brainwashing expert, although she also studied schizophrenia and coercive persuasion. Her book Cults in Our Midst exposed the psychology behind the nature of cults. She gave expert ...
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Created on 08 March 2016
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Aug/Sept 2018
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(Magazine)
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... online, bound by their shared desire to steal as much as possible. By Rosie Albrecht
Cult Following
Sure, cults are hella scary. But their clothes are pretty cool. Photographed by Kristyna Archer, ...
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Created on 27 July 2015
