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Leading Member of BuzzFeed's "Cocoa Butter" Chantal Rochelle Talks Pushing The Culture Forward: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Entertainment)
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... sense of style as a full-figured Black woman, and how intentional are you about your self-presentation?
I'm very intentional about that. When it comes to representation, especially as a Black woman, people ...
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Created on 16 April 2021
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Meet the Women Bringing About Real Change in the World of Flowers
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(Living)
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... the traditional power structures of our industry by hiring exclusively POC, womxn, and LGBTQ+ staff.”
Alex Floro by Jessica Pomerantz
Photo: Carrianne Older
Lucero agrees that representation matters. ...
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Created on 23 March 2021
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"Wandavision" Is About Love, Family, And Grief. It's Also About Powerful Wome
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(TV)
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... Latest Event Showed The Necessity Of Diversity In Superhero Media
Nicole Kang of "Batwoman" talks Superheroes, Quarantine, Asian Representation, and BLM Solidarity: BUST Interview
From "Captain America" ...
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Created on 17 March 2021
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You Know The Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Meet Her Antithesis.
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(Entertainment)
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... when we see other women show any sign of imperfection, we internalize and attack them for their weaknesses. Representation matters, and as I get older, I am grateful for these realistic depictions of all ...
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Created on 29 January 2021
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“Brag Better” Author Meredith Fineman Wants You To Advocate For Yourself: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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Right, it comes down to representation. Women are policed from their voice to their ankles, and I’m a white woman. I have so many amazing women of color in this book speaking about their own experiences. ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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How Has Anna Wintour Reportedly "Sidelined and Tokenized" People of Color at Vogue? New Exposé Reveals a Toxic Workplac
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(Style)
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... representations of race and Wintour’s treatment of their employees of color caused?
Lee spoke with Black fashion journalists, including current and former Vogue staff, about their experiences working ...
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Created on 27 October 2020
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DC Comics’ Latest Event Showed The Necessity Of Diversity In Superhero Media
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(Movies)
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DC Comics has made it clear they are here to not only take film, television, and comics by storm, but they intend to do so consciously and with diverse representation in mind.
On Saturday, DC Comics ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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Black Bisexual Actress Javicia Leslie Is Playing The New "Batwoman" Lead And We're Here For
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(TV)
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... in January 2021.
Check out Javicia Leslie's latest Instagram post to see how much representation matters.
View this post on Instagram
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Created on 10 July 2020
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Jenny Slate Steps Away From Biracial "Big Mouth" Role: "Black Voices Must Be Hear
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(Entertainment)
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... the creative team behind Central Park supported Bell’s decision to leave. They released a statement vying for increased representation of Black and mixed race actors within their show.
This is a time ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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Nicole Kang of "Batwoman" talks Superheroes, Quarantine, Asian Representation, and BLM Solidarity: BUST Intervie
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(TV)
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... I know and that I have to learn about and that I can continue to bring stories that have not been told to light; to add my body and my identity to the landscape of American cinema. I believe in representation, ...
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Created on 15 June 2020
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Meet The Real-Life Women Of Hulu’s New “Mrs. America,” A Series About The ERA
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(TV)
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... equal rights and representation in the late 1960s. But nothing is this simple. The ERA, and the women fighting for and against it, still have a long way to go.
This is the backdrop of the new FX and ...
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Created on 03 April 2020
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Disney's Queer Representation Proble
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(Movies)
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... release of Disney films that promised genuine representation.
While Disney/Pixar has been progressive in its pursuit of inclusivity they’ve been missing the mark in the area of LGBTQ+ representation. ...
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Created on 25 February 2020
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9 YA Love Stories That Will Make You Swoon
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(Books)
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... is the very real possibility of a romance between her and her Tolkien-obsessed co-worker Reid. Upside manages to tie in all different forms of representation that are so important from body image to queer ...
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Created on 14 February 2020
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What We Can Learn From “Birds of Prey” and the Male Gaze
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(Movies)
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After Suicide Squad failed with DC fans, with its weird plot and “Hot Topic” aesthetic, many fans left the theaters with a new love for Harley Quinn, the zany, loveable anti-hero, while others were ...
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Created on 12 February 2020
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Natalie Portman’s Cape and 9 Other Feminist Moments We Loved From The 92nd Academy Awards
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(Entertainment)
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... animated film about embracing your natural hair won for Best Animated Short in one of our personal favorite moments of the night. Created by Karen Rupert Toliver due to “a firm belief that representation ...
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Created on 10 February 2020
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This is my 3-Year-Old Daughter's Fourth Women's March — Why This Matte
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(Feminism)
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We need signs of hope, and Skyler was June Jordan's saying epitomized: children are the way the world begins again and again. She was a tangible representation of change, of the potential for us to course-correct, ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
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Latina Activist Wins Boston City Council Seat By 1 Vote After Recount
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(Feminism)
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... gayness in a few circles, and I didn’t do that.” It’s quite important that both canidates are Latinas and St. Guillen is openly gay. Visibility and representation is especially vital in elections government ...
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Created on 10 December 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Told To “Smile More” To Get Men To Vote
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(Feminism)
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... a spokeswoman for the Barbara Lee Foundation that conducts nonpartisan research on women running for office, and seeking to advance women’s equality and representation in American politics, remarked how ...
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Created on 12 November 2019
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7 Teen Activists Of Color You Need to Know Who Are Leading The Fight Against Climate Change
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(Feminism)
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... bringing more diversity and representation into the ongoing fight against the climate crisis:
1. Isra Hirsi
Isra Hirsi is the executive director and co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, an ...
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Created on 01 October 2019
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Misogyny and Manacles: The Real Story Behind "Wonder Woman
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(Entertainment)
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... of fight left in her.
This article originally appeared on F Yeah History and has been reprinted here with permission.
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