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Chelsea Handler Slayed at the Critic's Choice Awards; Announces Upcoming tou
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(TV)
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... of fresh air to have another woman chipping away at that white-men-named-Jimmy-ceiling.
Another win for the comedian: Handler’s latest Netflix special Revolution just came out this past December and ...
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Created on 20 January 2023
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Kehlani Sounds Off On Latest Album "Blue Water Road," Coming Out As A Lesbian, And The Role Motherhood Plays In Their Life ...
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(Music)
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In 2019, Kehlani welcomed daughter Adeya, who they co-parent with friend and former partner, musician Javie Young-White (yup—he’s previous BUST “Boy du Jour” Jaboukie Young-White’s brother). Kehlani ...
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Created on 31 August 2022
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Before Nirvana And Soundgarden, A Young Black Performer Named Tina Bell Was Making Grunge Rock But You Have Probably Never Heard Of Her.
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(Music)
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... to define the scene, white men dominated, and women were few. And Black women? If the most common version of history is to be believed, there were none. But that version is wrong.
Bam Bam, formed in ...
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Created on 10 August 2022
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3 New Feminist Titles That Examine Women's Place In Civilization And Society: BUST Review
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(Books)
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... toward greater gender equality. Among the club’s members were the writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan Glaspell. While the group initially consisted solely of privileged white women, it eventually ...
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Created on 11 July 2022
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Bitch, The Legendary Queer Music Icon Is Back With New Album “Bitchcraft” After a 9 Year Hiatus
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(Music)
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... put me in classical music, which I am very lucky that I have that training. I did that all the way through high school, but then, it's also very restrictive and you are playing the music of dead white men, ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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6.
13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... to Filipino Americans in search of their roots, which is an important endeavor considering the wide-scale and systemic whitewashing of Phillipine culture that is frequently found in American literature. ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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Everybody Skate: Photographer Lanna Apisukh Highlights Female and Queer Skateboarders in New Photo Project
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(Arts)
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... Seattle is very white, there are some Asians out there, too, and it's becoming more of a diverse city. But, I think New York City is just like a melting pot of people. And they're all gathering togethe ...
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Created on 10 August 2021
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Shannen Doherty Calls Out Hollywood’s Beauty Standards And The Lack of Representation for "Women Who Embraced their Face" In A Makeup-Free Selfi
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(Feminism)
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Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned to social media to speak out about Hollywood’s strict beauty standards, and to share her thoughts on embracing her natural beauty.
She posted ...
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Created on 09 June 2021
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9.
Rollerskating is Back! And Skate Queen Lola Star is Here to Share All Her Tips to Get You Started
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(Living)
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... founded in 2001, in action
But rolling along right beside this white history of skating has been a vibrant Black legacy that never faded. During the civil rights uprisings of the 1960s, segregated rinks ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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10.
Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... to get off your chest this morning?
I didn't really get to tell you what I think is wrong with representation. In our media today, we're still disproportionately representing straight, white, affluent ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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11.
5 great female-focused French films to watch tout suite!
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(Movies)
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When picturing French women, many of our brains conjure up images colored by stereotypes of chic, young, white women smoking cigarettes at sidewalk cafes with airs of cool detachment. The French stereotypes ...
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Created on 08 February 2021
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12.
You Know The Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Meet Her Antithesis.
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(Entertainment)
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... the complications that come hand-in-hand with being a woman.
Top photo: Sam Taylor/Netflix
More from BUST
TV Writer Priscila Garcia-Jacquier Calls For White Latinx to Unpack Their Privilege: BUST ...
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Created on 29 January 2021
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13.
Jane Fonda: A Rebel With a Cause. Exclusive BUST Interview
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(Feminism)
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... in a fashion nothing short of iconic: sporting a blazing red trench coat and black-and-white checked cap, her hands zip-tied behind her back with her head held high. Fonda was hauled off the Capitol steps ...
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Created on 07 January 2021
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14.
Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
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(Living)
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... common condition, and there is very little peer-reviewed research published on the topic. In larger part, though, I think it’s because I don’t present as a “typical” drug user. Firstly, I’m white—I could ...
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Created on 18 December 2020
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15.
Ijeoma Oluo Puts Patriarchy on Blast in Her New Book, "Mediocre
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(Books)
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... having about the career struggles they faced. Oluo realized that their experiences all had one common denominator: they had all been manipulated, dominated, and harassed by privileged white men. And in ...
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Created on 02 December 2020
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16.
Merle Dandridge On Having The Necessary Conversations In Kaley Cuoco's New Series, “The Flight Attendant:” A BUST Intervie
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(TV)
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... her FBI partner Van White off the hook. When the opportunity to audition for this series came along Dandridge tried out for a different role, but the show’s creators, Steve Yockey and Cuoco among others, ...
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Created on 25 November 2020
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17.
How Black And Indigenous Women Got Trump Out Of Office
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(Feminism)
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... in favor of Democratic candidates, and Indigenous women continue to fight for Native voters despite immense voter suppression, white women have continued to uphold white supremacy and ignore sisterhood. ...
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Created on 09 November 2020
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18.
“Brag Better” Author Meredith Fineman Wants You To Advocate For Yourself: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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... trickled to down to what we deem as professional dress, hair, and speech patterns are formed from straight white men. I agree with your work and think we do need to be bragging better, but where do we ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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19.
The Lesbians Are Alright
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(Living)
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... the beginning of March, a white male relative went down an anxiety spiral. He was inconsolable about his world changing. He said he knew this was a huge privilege, but he had never felt so vulnerable. ...
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Created on 08 October 2020
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Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
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(Feminism)
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... to enter the workforce and gain economic independence for the first time, and, for white women in particular, to remain in the workforce in jobs they had been hired for while working-age men were fighting ...
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Created on 29 September 2020