- 21. Join The "Resistance Witches" In Hexing The Trump Administration This Halloween Season (And Beyond
- (Living)
- ... (1988) Erica Jong, author or Witches and What Do Women Want?, writes, “Adolescence is a time when witchcraft exercises a great fascination. Disempowered by society and overwhelmed with physical changes, ...
- Created on 03 October 2018
- 22. "Intermittent Fasting" Diets Glamorize Disordered Eatin
- (Feminism)
- ... or guilt-inducing. At 13, I memorized the caloric information and serving size for every item in my pantry, from soup to nuts. I spent my adolescence and the majority of my twenties on some semblance of ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 23. 5 Judy Blume Books We Want To See On The Big Screen
- (Books)
- ... guide to puberty, Are Your There God? It’s Me, Margaret, follows Margaret, a 12-year-old girl, as she navigates the shaky ground of adolescence. Raised agnostic, Margaret talks to God about everything, ...
- Created on 09 August 2018
- 24. The Link Between Endrometriosis And Childhood Abuse
- (Feminism)
- ... adolescence is highly prevalent. In our study population of U.S. women, over a third of all women reported some type of abuse. If anything, this study highlights both abuse and endometriosis as prevalent ...
- Created on 23 July 2018
- 25. 5 Women Graphic Novelists You Should Be Reading
- (Books)
- ... as a single mother, but leaps in and out of the author’s adolescence in Russia to weave an engaging and sympathetic portrait of how it feels to chase love in a chaotic world, whether that involves flying ...
- Created on 26 June 2018
- 26. A Look At LGBTQ Gods In Greek Mythology
- (Living)
- ... a Hellenistic mode, Louvre, via Wikimedia Commons Born male, Dionysus—the Greek god of grapes, wine, fertility, and revelry (as well as theater)—played with his gender presentation in adolescence, dressing ...
- Created on 12 June 2018
- 27. The New Play "A.I.M. To Please" Will Validate The Heck Out Of Your Internet-Infused Adolescenc
- (Arts)
- ... adolescence. I saw the debut performance of the play at a tiny venue in Manhattan, sitting on a piano bench next to a friend I’ve had since my mediocre Harry Potter fanblog days. The show started out with ...
- Created on 15 May 2018
- 28. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Spring
- (Books)
- ... she discovers a deep-seated feeling of worthlessness and unworthiness stemming from her adolescence that has been triggering this self-sabotaging cycle. Bravely laying herself bare on the page, Garza supplements ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 29. Frances McDormand On Aging In Hollywood: From The BUST Archives
- (Movies)
- ... But because of the way I was brought up, I also knew, even when I was in the scariest parts of what people in college get into, I knew that there were limits. I knew what was too far. Speaking of adolescence ...
- Created on 24 April 2018
- 30. Tina Fey, Just Before "Mean Girls": From The BUST Archive
- (TV)
- ... Rosalind Wiseman called Queen Bees and Wannabes [Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence]. Rosalind’s work attempts to explain to parents what their ...
- Created on 20 April 2018
- 31. Myriam Gurba's "Mean" Explores Growing Up A Queer "Molack" In California: BUST Interv
- (Books)
- ... adolescence, and early adult life. By analyzing her own memory, Gurba forces the reader to do the same. She describes the book as a "novel that is memoiristic," meaning not exactly a memoir, but not exactly ...
- Created on 01 November 2017
- 32. "Girl Flu" Is An Awkward, Relatable Movie About Getting Your First Perio
- (Movies)
- ... edge. Girl Flu is a coming-of-age tale with a twist, zeroing in on the awkward, messy parts of adolescence like bullies, mood swings and crushes. In parallel, the plot also follows Jenny's growing pains ...
- Created on 20 October 2017
- 33. How Women Directors Show The Nuanced Reality Of Female Friendship
- (Movies)
- ... ever hurt her, I’ll kill you” — is, since adolescence, stored in my why-do-I-remember-this drawer. Fortunately, a sidekick in a rom com who is only there to provide relationship advice to the protagonist ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
- 34. "The Burning Girl" Shows The Complex Intricacies Of Growing Up: BUST Revie
- (Books)
- Adolescence is hard on everyone, but particularly for young girls transitioning into the role of a woman. Everything changes for them, expectations of who they should be, how they should act, who they ...
- Created on 28 August 2017
- 35. 3 Brief Books By Big-Time Writers To Read In One Afternoon
- (Books)
- A book doesn't need 1,000 pages to be revelatory — sometimes short, concise works can be the most powerful. For our book review sidebar in our June/July 2017 issue, we're spotlighting three recentlyp ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
- 36. How Sewing Helped Me Find A Home In My Body
- (Style)
- ... boil the history of my body down to its flesh and bones, it starts with being a teenage athlete. I rode horses religiously for my entire adolescence, and I stopped suddenly when I was 17. At my smallest ...
- Created on 09 June 2017
- 37. Women Write About Drugs In These 3 Powerful New Books
- (Books)
- ... She experienced adolescence in the spotlight, weathering both reality TV and substance abuse, but don't ask Kelly Osbourne what her survival secret is. In this collection of letters (about Joan Rivers, ...
- Created on 27 April 2017
- 38. Anti-Bullying Book ‘Jacob’s New Dress’ Banned To Protect ‘Traditional Family Values'
- (Books)
- In what could have been an effective lesson on empathy and accepting differences, first-grade classrooms in North Carolina have instead been barred from reading Jacob’s New Dress, a book about a little ...
- Created on 27 March 2017
- 39. 4 New Graphic Memoirs By Women You Need To Read Right Now
- (Books)
- ... teenage revolution, Cristy C. Road delivers boldly illustrated pages about her adolescence in West Miami. Definitely not a typical memoir, this collection dives deep into Road’s manic and caffeinated explorations ...
- Created on 23 March 2017
- 40. Reflecting On Lauren Bacall And Feminist Film Noir For Women’s History Month
- (Magazine)
- ... Month, I’d like to reflect on Lauren Bacall, a feminist icon and power heroine that comforted me during my childhood and adolescence. At 20-years-old, I still watch Bacall on screen and am reminded of ...
- Created on 15 March 2017
