- 1. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... to Bergen-Belsen where she was held prisoner – always strategizing how to obtain extra rations of food – until the concentration camp was liberated by the British in 1945. Genuth went on to marry and now ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 2. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist to four years in prison. In 2016, a North Carolina man named Edgar Maddison Welch fired his AR-15 rifle into a Washington, DC pizzeria. At his sentencing, Judge Jackson ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 3. 10 Female-Driven Holiday Films To Cozy Up With This Winter
- (Movies)
- ... 2015 Tangerine follows a transgender sex worker, Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), as she treks through LA’s red-light district on Christmas Eve night. Fresh out of a month-long prison sentence, ...
- Created on 02 December 2021
- 4. St Vincent Speaks to Carrie Brownstein About Their New Film "The Nowhere Inn," Their Feelings About Feminism, and the Dangers of Believing Your Own Hyp
- (Music)
- ... girlfriend. Also referenced in the film is the story of Clark’s father, who was incarcerated in 2010 for his role in a multimillion-dollar stock manipulation scheme. (His 2019 release from prison also ...
- Created on 30 November 2021
- 5. A Tale of Two Murders: How the Deaths of 2 Women Lead to a Racial Reckoning in the UK
- (Feminism)
- 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 ...
- Created on 29 November 2021
- 6. Lil Nas X Turns Dolly Parton's "Jolene" Into Haunting and Soulful Tale of Queer Heartbreak, and We're Here For ...
- (Music)
- ... explored everything from homosexuality as a “sin” to sexual anxiety in prisons, redefining what it means to be queer in America today. “[People always say] go where you’re accepted and stuff like that, ...
- Created on 23 September 2021
- 7. Lil Nas X twerks to end cash bail in hot-as-hell video for "Industry Baby
- (Music)
- ... to 5 years in Montero State Prison (an allusion to his Satan shoe legal troubles with Nike), where his life as an inmate includes hot pink uniforms, impeccable naked shower choreography, a Shawshank Redemption-style ...
- Created on 23 July 2021
- 8. Uzo Aduba on Shirley Chisholm, Representation, and 'In Treatment' - BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... Prison inmate who was both incredibly loving and dangerously unpredictable won Aduba many accolades during the show’s seven seasons, including two Emmys and five SAG awards. In the years since, Aduba has ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 9. Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
- (Movies)
- ... with the release of Clemency, that the writer-director got the praise she deserves. Starring Alfre Woodard, the film follows a prison warden’s re-evaluation of the nature of her job in the days leading ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 10. Another Black Trans Woman Was Murdered. Here Are 10 Black Trans-Led Organizations To Support Right Now.
- (Feminism)
- ... and gender variant/non-conforming people in prisons, jails, and detention centers. They provide both legal service work and peer legal advocacy programs to work towards fighting against police violence, ...
- Created on 15 April 2021
- 11. Lil Nas X Ignites Satanic Panic with his Haunted, Celestial Music Video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
- (Music)
- ... Lil Nas X being pitted against himself is a constant theme in this video. As the song continues we’re transported to Heaven, where Lil Nas X is held prisoner and tried by blue-haired, bored versions ...
- Created on 02 April 2021
- 12. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... state lines, and violators could face up to five years in prison for each offense. Despite all his virtue signaling, however, Comstock was a chronic masturbator who likely received his erotica through ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 13. The Historic 2021 Oscars Nominations Could Mean Big Business For Future Women in Film
- (Movies)
- ... in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards. The first was Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties, a 1975 Italian film about a man imprisoned during World War II. Jane Campion was nominated in 1994 for The ...
- Created on 15 March 2021
- 14. Roe v. Wade Doesn't Actually Make Abortion Accessible For Everyone. This Short Film Explains Why
- (Movies)
- ... abortions. This staggering number includes individuals on Medicaid, in the military, in the Peace Corps, enrolled in Indian Health Services, and in federal prisons, among others. Illinois congressman Henry ...
- Created on 03 March 2021
- 15. Andra Day Reveals Why She Required Months of Forced Rest After Making The US vs. Billie Holiday: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... written—every hit, every minute in prison, every cigarette, every sip, every slam of heroin or cocaine, but also all of her triumphs—it’s all written on the scroll of her vocal cords.” “I look at her ...
- Created on 01 March 2021
- 16. Female-Led Indie Movies Dominated Releases This Past Year: Here Are Ten You Should Watch (Without Going To The Theater)
- (Movies)
- ... masterpiece is a stark examination of the American justice system. It follows the efforts of Sibil Fox Richardson as she fights the 60-year prison sentence of her husband, Rob. Produced and directed by ...
- Created on 16 February 2021
- 17. The Parole Preparation Project helps incarcerated people envision a better tomorrow
- (Living)
- ... who could be anyone—social workers, law students, activists—to partner with people in prison before their parole board interviews. Some people have been incarcerated for decades and are being asked to ...
- Created on 13 January 2021
- 18. Jane Fonda: A Rebel With a Cause. Exclusive BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- ... fragility” was a thing. In the early ’70s, she worked with the Black Panther Party, helping to raise bail money for their political prisoners. She had just returned to the U.S. from Paris, and was living ...
- Created on 07 January 2021
- 19. Miley Cyrus' 'Plastic Hearts' Is A Love Letter To The Women Of Rock 'N Ro
- (Music)
- ... ideals, and influences of the past. The song “Prisoner," which features Dua Lipa, is slightly more subdued than most of the other songs on the album. Still, it remains connected to the rest of Plastic ...
- Created on 07 December 2020
- 20. Could The War On Drugs Finally Be Coming To An End?
- (Living)
- ... truly right the injustices of over-policing and imprisonment of Black and brown people as a result of the war on drugs. Top Image via Unsplash/@lgnwvr More from BUST: 5 Ways To Take Care Of Yourself ...
- Created on 04 November 2020
