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Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
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(Music)
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... out with Train and Blues Traveler this summer.
And — oh my God! How did I forget Mary Oliver or Alice Walker! (laughs) There’s so many great female poets that are suddenly [coming to mind].
B: Go ...
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Created on 02 May 2022
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Assuage Any Leftover Mother's Day Feels With Shantrelle P. Lewis' New Documentary "In Our Mother's Garde
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(Movies)
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... to Alice Walker’s book In Search Of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), a collection of essays in which the iconic author and poet articulates womanist philosophy and meditates on movements for ...
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Created on 07 May 2021
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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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... and poet Alice Dunbar-Nelson wrote in 1918. “Colored girls and colored women drove motor trucks, unloaded freight cars, dug ditches, packed boxes. The colored woman running the elevator or speeding a railroad ...
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Created on 29 September 2020
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Florence Howe, "Mother of Women Studies" and Founder of The Feminist Press Dies at 9
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(Feminism)
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... Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and the members of the Russian feminist performance group Pussy Riot have been published or republished by the Feminist Press.
The Feminist ...
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Created on 14 September 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion Reveals She Was Shot By Tory Lanez And The Response Reveals Rampant Misogynoir
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(Music)
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... face. It’s a term that harkens back to Alice Walker’s “womanism” and Frances Beale’s “double jeopardy” which capture the unique subject position of Black women.
Misogynoir reduces Black women to sexualized ...
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Created on 21 August 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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... She was recruited by Mable Vernon and Alice Paul to work for the NWP. She served a total of eight jail terms for suffrage protesting and a total of 103 days. While picketing once, she held up the famous ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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5 Feminist Collectives for Women of Color Mobilizing on the ’Gram
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(Feminism)
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... or communities.?
Mujeristas Collective
Inspired by Cuban activist/theologian Ada Maria Isasi-Díaz’s “Mujerista Theology,” which itself was inspired by Alice Walker’s explicitly anti-racist “womanism,” ...
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Created on 04 May 2020
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Issa Rae Talks Fame, Feminism, And “Insecure” Season Four: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... white. I didn’t take the time to really explore it. In college, I discovered Alice Walker’s version of feminism—womanism. The word feminism still has a tinge of whiteness to it, but I understand the definition ...
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Created on 10 April 2020
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3 New Must-Read Books On Feminism, Gender, And Current Issues
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(Books)
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... today can identify themselves as the much rowdier and less apologetic granddaughters of Alice Walker’s “womanists.”
This can be a tough read, even for the most woke and intersectional feminist, and ...
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Created on 26 March 2020
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8 Black Feminist Principles That Taught Me About Dismantling The System
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(Feminism)
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... sexist, racist, and homophobic views of the Mormon church because I read Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Zora Neale Hurston; because I heard Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, and ultimately the Queen Bey herself, ...
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Created on 27 April 2019
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19 New Books By Women And Nonbinary Authors To Read In October 2018
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(Books)
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... Rebecca Traister explores the power of female rage in this nonfiction book. Out October 2.
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker
The Color Purple author Alice Walker's latest releases ...
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Created on 02 October 2018
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12.
Week Of Women: May 4-10, 2018
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(Entertainment)
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... it’s finally being published with a foreword by Alice Walker. Out Tuesday, May 8.
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea’s latest book is a collection ...
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Created on 03 May 2018
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13.
Get Your Gaia On With The New We'Moon Calendar
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(Sponsored)
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... world is inspiring in so many of us."
—Alice Walker, author and activist
“This is so much more than a calendar. It is a resource—a way of focusing the direction of your days on positive living. The ...
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Created on 30 October 2017
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22 Feminist Books To Educate And Empower You
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(Books)
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... You’re not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.”
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight ...
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Created on 08 August 2017
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Solange On Intersectional Feminism And "A Seat At The Table": BUST Cover Stor
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(Feminism)
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... she identifies as a feminist. “Yes. I am a proud black feminist and womanist and I’m extremely proud of the work that’s being done,” she says, referring to the school of thought put forth by writer Alice ...
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Created on 22 May 2017
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16.
What Makes Art Feminist? Janet Mock And The Brooklyn Museum Weigh In
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(Arts)
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... her. “Black feminist writers — Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou and activist like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson.” For her courage and candor as a writer, Janet Mock is definitely on my list ...
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Created on 04 November 2016
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17.
Gladys Bentley Was The Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar Of The Harlem Renaissance
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(Feminism)
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... parody of “My Alice Blue Gown.” As sung in the Broadway musical Irene (1919), the original lyrics went like this:
“And the world seemed to smile all around ‘Til it wilted, I wore it, I’ll always adore ...
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Created on 02 November 2016
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18.
These Self-Portraits Will Make You See Your Selfies As Works Of Art
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(Arts)
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... about themselves, particularly through art.
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self-portrait, c.1896.
Berthe Morisot, Self-portrait with her Daughter Julie, 1885.
Alice Austen, Julia Martin, Julia Bredt, ...
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Created on 10 May 2016
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Alice Walker, Author Of 'The Color Purple,' Answers Your Questions During Live Strea
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(Books)
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Alice Walker, poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the literary classic The Color Purple, will be answering fan questions on Facebook during a live stream video broadcast tonight at 5:30pm EST. ...
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Created on 06 May 2016
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9 Women You Didn't Learn About In History Class But Should Hav
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(Feminism)
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... we here at BUST decided to gather some badass ladies that our history books left out. Happy Herstory month!
Image via BlackPast.org
Alice Coachman (1923-2014) Coachman was the first African-American ...
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Created on 08 March 2016