- 21. Live Music and Queer Poetry: "Queers of Noise" is the Dyke March NYC Afterparty You Don't Want to Mi
- (Music)
- ... “with tough, honest lyrics, sung with soulful grit.” Then there’s THEMME, a new shoegaze band that is, of course, unapologetically queer. Alongside bands, del Mar invites queer poetry into her afterparty. ...
- Created on 07 June 2022
- 22. Afrofuturist musical "Neptune Frost" tells a story of love, loss, and anti-capitalism: Movie Revie
- (Movies)
- Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost is a gorgeous, Afrofuturist musical that tells a story of love, loss, and anti-capitalism. With a script by Williams, an actor/poet/playwright whose ...
- Created on 03 June 2022
- 23. Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
- (Music)
- ... to release a book of poetry or to immerse themselves in visual art as they are to make an album. Both have taken extended breathers from the grind that is the music business to raise children — and they ...
- Created on 02 May 2022
- 24. The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
- (Eat Me)
- ... as “the rituals are not a game for me.” Sabina’s medicine work was accompanied by poetry and verse that, she explained, were channeled from the mushrooms themselves. “I am known in heaven, because I am ...
- Created on 28 April 2022
- 25. Diane di Prima Blesses Us One Last Time With "Spring and Autumn Annals," A Previously Unpublished Memoir and Elegy To A Frien
- (Books)
- ... female voice in the iconic Beat poetry movement of the ’60s, di Prima blazed a path for more women who wanted to become unabashed feminists, thinkers, and change makers through art. She was one of the ...
- Created on 31 March 2022
- 26. How TikTok Helped Me Learn to Accept My Vulva
- (Sex)
- ... university. I heard the poetic lines about a vulva’s beauty and its flower-like shape over and over again. I watched fellow actors perform comedic tales of overcoming aversion to the “mink-lined muffler” ...
- Created on 29 March 2022
- 27. Madison Butler Disrupts Gender Pay Inequity For Black Women, With Her Black Speaker Collection, a Database Full of Voices That Need To Be Heard
- (Feminism)
- ... wanted to prove that excuse wrong. There are Black speakers on every topic you can think of- and they’re not free to book,” Butler told BUST. As a Black woman who is also a poet and performer, I can ...
- Created on 25 March 2022
- 28. The Persian New Year, or Nowruz, is the Perfect Way to Refresh and Reset—And Also a Great Excuse to Stuff Your Face with Amazing Food (Family Recipe Included!)
- (Living)
- ... (eggs, painted or dyed in different colors), for fertility Ayeeneh (mirror), for reflection Sham (candle), for enlightenment Text, like a beloved volume of poetry, stories, or a holy book that ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 29. Janelle Monae's "The Memory Librarian" Tackles Afrofuturism, Plus a Deep Dive Into Witchcraft, and a Memoir From an Indigenous Pu
- (Books)
- ... together memoir and poetry to create something that feels raw and unfiltered. “Some houses are haunted by ghosts,” she explains. “Our house hangs on to words and stories.” Along the way, she laments how ...
- Created on 10 March 2022
- 30. Director Celeste Bell Speaks About Her New Documentary On Her Mother Poly Styrene, One Of The Original Women Of Punk Music
- (Music)
- ... reveals itself in her writing. “Somali people have a long history of oral poetry,” Bell explains. “My mother had that ability. Most of her lyrics were poems that became songs.” Songs that, some 40 years ...
- Created on 28 February 2022
- 31. Bitch, The Legendary Queer Music Icon Is Back With New Album “Bitchcraft” After a 9 Year Hiatus
- (Music)
- ... to be the biggest version of myself. I have been referring to it as poet-pop because I am a poet as well, and I feel like I was able to embrace a pop structure, and then still have my obtuse-arty poetry ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 32. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... now: Duende District: New Mexico and Washington DC Angela María Spring is a poet, author, editor, journalist, and the owner of Duende District. Spring, a Latinx woman of Puerto Rican and Central ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 33. Louise Erdrich, Poet and Children’s Book Author, Discusses Her New Novel "The Sentence," a Modern-Day Ghost Story, and Gives BUST a Peek Inside Her Practice ...
- (Books)
- A Minnesota-based member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), Louise Erdrich is a master of multiple genres who won a Pulitzer in Fiction this year for The Night Watchman. On November ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 34. Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
- (Arts)
- ... a copy of Princess Mary’s Gift Book (1915), an illustrated volume of stories and poetry. One poem appeared on a page surrounded by drawings of dancing fairies. Both Elsie’s talent and Frances’ book would ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 35. "This is how I Disappear" a New Graphic Novel by Mirion Malle Showcases the Mental Stress and Trauma Sexual Assault Can Have On Women, And The Healing Journey It takes To Overcome I
- (Books)
- ... who expects full-time hours for part-time pay, and a book of poetry inspired by her breakup that she is under contract to finish writing. While her sadness is initially credited to her heartbreak, it expands ...
- Created on 15 November 2021
- 36. The Princess of Pop-Punk Avril Lavigne is Back With a New Single, "Bite Me" ...
- (Music)
- ... invested her songs with poetic introspection, reflecting on everything from divorce to misogyny to feeling “stuck” in mid-adulthood. Rather than continuing to use pop-punk staples like high-tempo hooks ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 37. Chessy Normile’s Debut Poetry Collection, "Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party," Will Make You Laugh, Cry, and Screa
- (Books)
- In each issue of BUST, Amber Tamblyn reviews a book of poetry. From our Fall 2021 issue, here's her review of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party. Chessy Normile’s Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great ...
- Created on 28 October 2021
- 38. Solange's Saint Heron Opens Free Library of Rare Books and Art By Black Authors and Creators Throughout History ...
- (Books)
- ... have been returned they become part of the “permanent collection” at Saint Heron. Titles include Shakespeare in Harlem by poet Langston Hughes, Clay’s Ark, Octavia Butler’s 1984 novel, as well as poetry ...
- Created on 20 October 2021
- 39. “With her eyes still open, she touched herself for a minute and a half, came noiselessly”: Sally Rooney Depicts Female Sexuality, Bi-sexuality, Intellectual Women, and Mental Illness in New Book “Beautiful ...
- (Books)
- ... to BDS, not because of the Hebrew language. — Dalya Masri (@dalya_masri) October 11, 2021 If you’ve read either of Rooney’s first two novels then you know what to expect from her poetically melancholic ...
- Created on 20 October 2021
- 40. Doctors Marian Croak and Patricia Bath Are the First Black Women Inducted into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame, And Yeah, It's About Time
- (Feminism)
- The National Inventors Hall of Fame in Alexandria, VA honors over 600 of America’s greatest inventors and engineers, living and deceased, who have patented an influential technology. Since its founding ...
- Created on 30 September 2021
