- 1. I Molested My Childhood Friend At A Young Age, Here's How I Apologized As An Adul
- (Feminism)
- ... I didn’t want to lead with, “Hey, remember when I forced you to touch me?” Before I wrote to Donovan, I asked myself if I was being irresponsible by writing this confession. I didn’t know what kind of ...
- Created on 02 January 2023
- 2. 5 Steps to Organizing A DIY Creative Retreat of Your Very Own
- (Living)
- ... passions. But it’s so important, whatever your craft may be—writing, visual art, design, filmmaking. Many folks turn to organized retreats and residencies for dedicated bouts of creativity, but even if ...
- Created on 22 December 2022
- 3. Revolutionary Rapper Mykki Blanco on New Album, Vulnerability, and Creative Evolution: BUST Interview
- (Music)
- ... in a bottle. “People kind of glaze over this, but I became ‘viral’ after seven months of writing songs,” they say. Starting songwriting at the age of 25, their first single, “Wavvy,” set fire to 2012. ...
- Created on 13 December 2022
- 4. BUST's Perfect Fall Playlist is Here: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Big Joanie, and Other New Music to Listen To Right Now ...
- (Music)
- ... mental hospital and to vocalist/guitarist Sam Quartin’s state of mind at the time of writing). Melodically uncontainable, Bellevue is stark, sinuous, and delightfully discombobulating throughout. – Rachel ...
- Created on 11 November 2022
- 5. New Bold Music From Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Plus 2 More Albums You Need To Listen To This Fall
- (Music)
- ... Elizabeth Stokes shares the impact of an array of relationships, picking them apart and underlining the maddening symptoms that stress and anxiety unleash. Stokes’ vulnerably relatable writing never seems ...
- Created on 01 November 2022
- 6. October is ADHD Awareness Month. Meet 3 Inspiring Women Who Are Speaking Out And Combating Stigma Attached With The Disorder
- (Living)
- ... of early Avril Lavigne vibes, writing songs about recovering from addiction and toxic ex-boyfriends. The inspiration for these songs stems from her experience of losing her mother at 22, becoming estranged ...
- Created on 05 October 2022
- 7. Celebrated Author Celeste Ng Discusses Her Writing Process For Her New Book, "Our Missing Hearts" ...
- (Books)
- ... novel, Our Missing Hearts, is a suspense story revolving around a young man and his estranged mom that comes out October 4. Here, Ng shares the routines that keep her writing her way into the future. Your ...
- Created on 03 October 2022
- 8. Taylor Swift Releases Song Titles for Highly Anticipated Album "Midnights" and Based on the Easter Eggs, We Have A Theory ...
- (Music)
- The queen of songwriting is back at it again with a new album, Midnights, and fans are counting down the days until its release. For the first time in two years, Taylor Swift is releasing new music ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 9. Courtney Barnett Documentary "Anonymous Club" Explores The Artist's Vulnerability, Self-Doubt, and Inspirati
- (Movies)
- ... experiences while listening in on her perspectives. Several moments of the film let us see just how much of herself Barnett gives when performing and writing. In a moment of unadulterated vulnerability, ...
- Created on 23 September 2022
- 10. Women Have Been Aiding And Abetting Abortion For Centuries. So How And When Did The Witchcraft Narrative Begin?
- (Feminism)
- Illustration by Nina Bunjevac AT THE END of June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to legal abortion in America. Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel ...
- Created on 19 September 2022
- 11. MILCK Releases Music Video For "We Won't Go Back", Anthem of the Pro-Choice Movement ...
- (Music)
- ... “we won’t go back,” MILCK took to social media that night to call on her fans to contribute to the lyric writing process. When asked about the writing process, she told BUST via email, "It was very healing ...
- Created on 18 August 2022
- 12. LA-Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's Latest, "Lapvona" is Out Now. Plus, A Peek At Her Fiction Practice ...
- (Books)
- ... What methods did you employ while writing to shut out everyday life and fully immerse yourself in a totally different world? Honestly, it wasn't hard to shut out everyday life because I began this project ...
- Created on 23 June 2022
- 13. "It's Time For The Bro To Stand On His Own" Ibeyi On Their Single "Lavender And Red Roses" ...
- (Music)
- ... learned to play his signature instrument the cajon, with Lisa taking up songwriting a few years later. Taken from a poem in The Egyptian Book of the Dead, their 3rd album Spell 31 was released on May ...
- Created on 02 June 2022
- 14. Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
- (Music)
- ... it ever has — which, she says, is a result of writing for her register for the first time. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Jewel for BUST. We covered everything from her new album to her ...
- Created on 02 May 2022
- 15. EXCLUSIVE: Mayim Bialik Talks Imposter Syndrome As A First-Time Director, and Her Latest Film, "As They Made Us" ...
- (Movies)
- ... The Big Bang Theory. With a lifetime in “the biz” the Jeopardy host is charting new territory, writing and directing her first feature film, As They Made Us. Inspired by her own family, the film centers ...
- Created on 15 April 2022
- 16. Annie Murphy On The Importance of Imperfect Female Characters, Life After Alexis, And Her Top-Secret Role On Season 2 of Russian Doll
- (Entertainment)
- ... writing and directing and acting. Her brain is firing on all cylinders all the time.” Lyonne isn’t the only one wearing multiple hats. In addition to her acting work, Murphy is a spokesperson for Phexxi, ...
- Created on 14 April 2022
- 17. Legendary Comedian and Voice Over Artist Debra Wilson Gets Serious In Latest Role of Death Doula, in New Film, "Moon Manor" ...
- (Movies)
- As a child of the 1990’s, must I even tell you how many Saturday nights in suburbia I spent watching episodes of MADtv? Though only eight when the show premiered, it became one of my favorite ...
- Created on 24 March 2022
- 18. Design Guru Debbie Millman On Her Writing Process and New Book, "Why Design Matters: Conversations With The World's Most Creative People" ...
- (Books)
- ... (my now wife) Roxane Gay in October of 2018 and fell madly in love. Nothing else mattered. I was, like, “Book schnook! I am in love! I can’t do anything but be in love!” I put off writing for so long I ...
- Created on 22 March 2022
- 19. Bitch, The Legendary Queer Music Icon Is Back With New Album “Bitchcraft” After a 9 Year Hiatus
- (Music)
- ... saying. This song started as a very esoteric poem. I don't normally write like that., but I do also respond well to assignments. I love a writing assignment! She had this vision for the song, and I was ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 20. Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath Speaks With BUST About Their Latest Record "Free Love," Ahead of the 2022 Gramm
- (Music)
- ... the podcast Rumble Strip Vermont. She is my favorite interviewer and I realized we could work together to create something that was about the process of actually writing music, which is so rarely talked ...
- Created on 03 February 2022
