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Sundance 2023: Women Directors Tackle Themes of Frankenstein, Introverts and Little Richard
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(Movies)
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... sets the tone for the year on independent cinema, they are the gatekeepers, star-makers and our guiding light. This is important because Independent Cinema provides valuable representation of women and ...
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Created on 21 January 2023
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Forget "Camping Trips"—Here's How to Actually Help Women Get the Abortion Care They Desperately Ne
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(Feminism)
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... frustrating,” says Max Carwile, programs director for Abortion Access Front, an activist group that uses performance and humor to destigmatize abortion and provide aid to independent clinics. “I think ...
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Created on 17 January 2023
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Now That Barack Obama Listens to "Sad Girl Pop," It's Time to Talk About this Music Subgen
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(Music)
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Ethel Cain’s 2022 hit “American Teenager,” from her album Preacher’s Daughter, has been rapidly gaining attention lately after being included on former President Barack Obama’s “end of year roundup” ...
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Created on 11 January 2023
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The 9-Day Wonder Diet Scarf Was The ’50's Accessory Designed To Keep Women From Scarfing Too Much Dow
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(Style)
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... scarf, printed with all nine days’ worth of menus. “DIETING IS FUN when you wear this sensational new scarf with its design theme of the famous Harper’s Bazaar 9-Day Wonder Diet,” read a 1953 ad inIndependent ...
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Created on 31 October 2022
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Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
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(TV)
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... us friends, roommates, or faith communities, but these threats don’t seem to be largely sanctioned by the government. But that might not actually be the case. Victor Madrigal-Borloz, a UN Independent Expert ...
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Created on 13 October 2022
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Wet Leg, Cat Power Included on Good Music To Ensure Safe Abortion Access To All Compilation: Today Only
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(Music)
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... the U.S. Noise For Now, who are working with Abortion Care Network, support many independent abortion clinics. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to non-profit organizations to provide access to abortion ...
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Created on 07 October 2022
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Why Audio Erotica Is Giving Women An Aural Fixation. Plus, 3 Places You Can Listen To It
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(Sex)
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Rooted in the intention of pleasing only oneself, masturbation is the ultimate self-care, and for many of us, watching porn and masturbating go, well, hand in hand. But despite the fact that according ...
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Created on 24 August 2022
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W. Kamau Bell Urges Men To Stand Up For The Right To Bodily Autonomy In PSA, "Dads For Choice" ...
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(Feminism)
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... rhetoric and media, build community among pro-abortion activists, and provide direct support to independent abortion clinics”, will be hosting an exciting virtual training on abortion activism on July ...
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Created on 28 June 2022
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Mental Health Awareness Month: 14 Celebrities That Are Vocal About Their Mental Health Struggles
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(Living)
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The sphere of mental health has witnessed monumental advancements over the past many years. What spearheaded this change was the replacement of asylums with community-based mental health services in ...
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Created on 24 May 2022
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This Virtual Film Series Featuring 9 Films On The History of Reproductive Rights In The US, Is Free All Month
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(Feminism)
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... to make abortion inaccessible to women.
Women Make Movies, a distributor of independent films produced and directed by women, is making a selection of nine films available for the public on the history ...
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Created on 12 May 2022
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Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
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(Music)
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... you saw as mentors either growing up or even later.
J: My aunts really influenced me. All the homestead women that shoed their own horses [in Alaska] and sawed their own trees. [They were] wildly independent, ...
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Created on 02 May 2022
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Remembering The Late, Great, bell hooks. How Well Do You Know The Feminist Author and Activist?
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(Feminism)
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... independent d.) free
via GIPHY
Answer Key:
1. c 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. a
Photo: Jesse Fox
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2022 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! ...
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Created on 07 April 2022
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What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
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(Feminism)
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... all of these big milestones have a certain type of woman at the forefront: a wealthy white woman. I don’t think this is some awful thing— we are all women, independent of our race, class, ability — but ...
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Created on 30 March 2022
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Amanda Bynes is Free From Her Nearly 9 Year Conservatorship and We Couldn’t Be Happier For Her—Here Are The Facts
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(Entertainment)
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... and also medical issues.” Her attorney, David Esquibias told Variety that Bynes “has done very well in a very short period of time that she’s been there,” and is now “able to live on her own independently ...
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Created on 23 March 2022
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Devery Jacobs of "Reservation Dogs" Talks The Power of Indigenous Stories and Stepping Into Her Own As a Queer Woma
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(TV)
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... scene, it can’t be in buckskin.’”
In 2013, she landed her first leading role, in the independent film Rhymes for Young Ghouls, written and directed by Mi’kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby. That experience, ...
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Created on 01 March 2022
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Mackenzi Lee Breaks the Rules When It Comes to Personal Style
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(Style)
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... with Salt Lake City-based author Mackenzi Lee (@themackenzilee).
Alright, tell me about this outfit because I love it.
The main piece is from Maria Queen Maria on Etsy, the shop of independent Bulgarian ...
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Created on 22 February 2022
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13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... for over six years. In an interview with the Southern Independent Alliance of Books, Miller shared the fond memories of how she fell in love with books:
"The love generated by my grandmother (she had ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
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(Books)
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“To be clear, I was a bitch to work with,” bookseller Nadia Wassef confesses in this unapologetically feminist collection of essays about co-founding and managing independent Egyptian bookstore Diwan ...
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Created on 31 January 2022
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"Harlem," The New Sitcom by "Girls Trip" Writer Tracy Oliver, Just Might Be the Fluffy-Lighthearted TV Fare Black Women Need in these “Post-Pandemic” Tim
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(TV)
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... their romantic relationships.) An adjunct at Columbia University, Camille’s lectures set the tone for each episode.
Camille admires the independent and take-charge attitude of the Mosuo women, yet ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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A Tale of Two Murders: How the Deaths of 2 Women Lead to a Racial Reckoning in the UK
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(Feminism)
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Sarah Everard was a 33-year-old white woman who went missing after leaving a friend’s house in the evening and walking to her home in Clapham on March 3, 2021. She was missing for a week until her body ...
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Created on 29 November 2021