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Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
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(Feminism)
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... in America.
“I never wanted to get married but I don’t think I had a choice, he was going to get charged with statutory rape,” former child bride Brittany Koerselman tells me from her home in Pocahontas, ...
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Created on 12 November 2021
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Of Blood And Money: On Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test
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(Feminism)
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... referring to Warren as “Pocahontas,” a reference to a young Pamunkey girl who was barely a teenager when she was kidnapped by Captain Samuel Argall, her husband murdered by colonists, and her baby given ...
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Created on 17 October 2018
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"Herstory 101" Tells Us What Really Went Down In Histor
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(TV)
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... Herstory 101. The first episode went public on October 8th and was appropriately titled “John Smith Was A F*ckboy." It delves into the famous "love" story of John Smith and Pocahontas, which Disney got ...
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Created on 15 October 2018
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4.
Ashley Eckstein of “Star Wars” Makes Fashion For Fangirls: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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... I am an amalgamation of multiple princesses and their heroic deeds”?
I am definitely an amalgamation of multiple Princesses. Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Mulan and Pocahontas each taught me something valuable ...
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Created on 01 May 2018
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5.
Feminist documentarians with their own production company
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(Movies)
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...
More from BUST
Photographer Jackie Dives Tells Stories That Need To Be Told: Lady Shooters
A New Myth Shattering Documentary On Pocahontas Airs Tonight
Pussy Riot's Nadya On How To Resist Trump: ...
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Created on 26 April 2017
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A New Myth Shattering Documentary on Pocahontas Airs Tonight
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(TV)
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"Hers is a story we tell ourselves about America—a founding mother who still defines us."
Most American children grow up watching Disney's Pocahontas and associate Pocahontas with the love story depicted ...
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Created on 27 March 2017
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7.
A History Of Women On American Money
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(Feminism)
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1865: Pocahontas is the first woman to grace American money, appearing on the $20 bill in an outdoor scene where she is surrounded by men. This ensures the bill’s compliance with local laws prohibiting ...
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Created on 05 July 2016
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8.
Melissa McCarthy's Lip Sync Version Of 'Colors Of The Wind' Will Blow You Away ...
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(TV)
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... over when Melissa went for the win with Colors of the Wind off the Pocahontas soundtrack, complete with wind and colors and wolves and newspapers.
Watch the video below and tell us if you agree. ...
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Created on 05 April 2016
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Moana Is Making Waves As The Newest Disney Heroine Of Color
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(Movies)
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She is voiced by 14-year-old Native Hawaiian Auli'i Cravalho (person of color who is age-appropriate! Double win!). Moana will join Mulan, Tiana, Lilo, Jasmine, Tiger Lily and Pocahontas in the canon ...
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Created on 06 January 2016
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Plus-sized Disney Princesses? Teen Spurs Body Image Debate Online
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(Feminism)
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... bullied by the media.”
While in most recent years, Disney has introduced a few female characters who have challenged the traditional white feminine model (i.e. Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, Merida), we have ...
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Created on 05 February 2014
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Disney Princesses Grow Beards Fit For A Princess
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(Movies)
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In what I like to view as an unconventional approach to subverting gender norms and challenging the plethora of “masculine” or “feminine” images of our childhood, Tumblr recently hoped on a Wolverine ...
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Created on 07 November 2013
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12.
Happily Ever After? A Feminist Reading of Disney's Princesse
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(Feminism)
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... still sacrifices her own desires for the man she loves.
2. Pocahontas, Pocahontas – Though this film is incredibly controversial in its portrayal of history, Pocahontas’ character isn’t the typical ...
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Created on 11 April 2013
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13.
BUST Staffers in Childhood Halloween Costumes
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(General)
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... incorrect) picture of me as Pocahontas. Loved that chick."
Intern Erika Smith
"Here's 2-year-old me in a rabbit costume, complete with a carrot!"
Intern Genevieve Bleidner
"Me as a 9-month-old ...
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Created on 31 October 2012
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14.
Artist Rodolfo Loaiza Paints Same-Sex Disney Couples
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(Arts)
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In 1995 they gave us Pocahontas, in 1998 we got Mulan, and in 2009--for the first time in Walt Disney animation history--they finally created a black princess with The Princess and the Frog. While there ...
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Created on 02 August 2012
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15.
Disney Princesses Meet Their Doom in Thomas Czarnecki's New Photoserie
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(Arts)
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... is beached on the shore, Sleeping Beauty lies abandoned on the floor of what appears to be a drug den, and Pocahontas is slung over a hunter's shoulder in his room of taxidermic trophies. I hope Czarnecki ...
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Created on 06 February 2012
