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7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
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(Movies)
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... of notable icons’ lives. From the story of a deeply important abolitionist badass who saved many lives and reunited families, to the female rock 'n roll era legends who brought women into the grimy side ...
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Created on 30 November 2022
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'Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power' Picks Apart the Male Gaze in Film—Revie
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(Movies)
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... replace the current male-dominated paradigm, nor does she proselytize for the abolition of all on-screen eroticism. Rather, she calls for a radical reinvention of how shots and film grammar are formulated. ...
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Created on 24 October 2022
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"Dressing The Resistance" Features The Fashions of Women Activists, And Shows How People Have Historically Used Clothing To Activate Chang
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(Style)
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...
1864
Sojourner Truth dresses in Quaker garb to communicate her role as an abolitionist.
Photo: Library of Congress
1916
Irish rebel hero Constance Markievicz designs a uniform for Citizen’s ...
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Created on 12 April 2022
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What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
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(Feminism)
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... as if it’s impossible to be both.
Black people didn’t get the right to vote until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 15th Amendment caused a huge divide between suffragists and abolitionists. The ...
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Created on 30 March 2022
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors
Reveals The Writing Practices That Helps
Her Create Her Literary Legacy, and Why She's Obsessed With Writing While Amongst People ...
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(Books)
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... book, An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, is poised to once again inspire readers to fight for a better future. Here, she shares how she gets her revolutionary words ...
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Created on 18 November 2021
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Olympian Activist Gwendolyn Berry Turns Her Back During National Anthem: "The Anthem Doesn't Speak For Me. It Never Has
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(Living)
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... on Saturday, it played at 5:25 p.m., according to ESPN.
The “Star Spangled Banner” was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a man who used his political power to enforce strict slave laws, punish abolitionists, ...
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Created on 28 June 2021
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Poet Maya Angelou, Astronaut Sally Ride, And Other Iconic Women Will Be Honored On A New U.S. Mint Coin Series
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(Feminism)
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... designs for the coins, The Chicago Tribune wrote.
The U.S. Mint will feature as many as 20 women from a wide spectrum of fields, including but not limited to: suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, ...
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Created on 12 May 2021
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This Mother's Day, Honor Mamas Everywhere By Supporting The National Bail Ou
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(Feminism)
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... and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists,” National Bail Out works to counteract the devastating impact incarceration has on Black families and communities by coordinating ...
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Created on 07 May 2021
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The Parole Preparation Project helps incarcerated people envision a better tomorrow
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(Living)
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... Gabreilla Shery This article originally appeared in the Winter 2021 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
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Created on 13 January 2021
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Canadian Judge Challenges Justice System in Case of Indigenous Women Charged with Drunk Driving
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(Feminism)
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In the case of six Indigenous women from the Pikangikum First Nation in Canada who pleaded guilty to impaired driving offences, Ontario Court Justice David Gibson is calling to challenge the minimum ...
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Created on 06 October 2020
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Former Glossier Employees Demand Reform Opposed To Boycott In Response to Racist Workplace Culture
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(Style)
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... that and cancelling Glossier,” said AM.
“A lot of us operate from a non-carceral mindset and go so far as to say an abolitionist mindset. We very intentionally do not use that language of cancelling ...
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Created on 20 September 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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... of women’s suffrage--and not just wealthy white women’s suffrage. The state held the first National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850, hosting abolitionist and suffragist speakers such as Sojourner Truth ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
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(General)
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... of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
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How China's First Female Emperor Schemed Her Way To The Top
Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Abolition
We Know The ...
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Created on 30 July 2020
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TV Writer Priscila Garcia-Jacquier Calls For White Latinx to Unpack Their Privilege: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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After George Floyd’s death sparked masses of Black Lives Matter protests, Latinx TV writer and QUIERO host Priscila Garcia-Jacquier’s DMs were flooded with people asking for her help. “I started receiving ...
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Created on 28 July 2020
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Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
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(Feminism)
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... complex and prison abolition has seen a resurgence. While the United States prison system has many faults, perhaps the main point addressed within the Black Lives Matter movement today is the fact that ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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You Should Know These 5 Queer Womxn Fighting for LGBTQ+ Rights Today
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(Feminism)
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... May is a Black queer womxn living as an organizer, educator, and abolitionist in Chicago. Page began her activist work around agriculture and food in Chicago and then focused her activism around prisons ...
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Created on 30 June 2020
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It's Time to Stop “Stanning” Politician
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(Feminism)
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... It’s also important to note that full abolition of police departments and calling for them to be defunded are two slightly different proposals, but they generally come from the same ideological place. ...
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Created on 27 June 2020
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8 Incredible People to Replace Racist Statues With
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(Living)
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... noted Schuyler was reportedly the largest slave owner in Albany. We recommend a statue of Sojourner Truth, famous abolitionist and women’s rights activist who penned the famous piece, Ain’t I A Woman, ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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Don’t Understand #DefundThePolice? Here Are 8 Online Activists and Resources That Might Help
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(Feminism)
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... brutality and racial injustice. Here are eight activists and resources to help you begin or further your education on police abolition:
1. MDP 150
MDP 150 is a community founded organization made up ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
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“This Is A Moment of Possibility:” Angela Davis Appears On UK News Channel to Speak on Black Lives Matter Movement
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(Feminism)
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... only be described as “immense,” as one Twitter user put it. Perhaps best known for her 1981 book Women, Race, and Class, Davis has been a force in civil rights, feminism, and prison abolition from the ...
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Created on 10 June 2020