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Gina Prince-Bythewood On Directing Viola Davis In Her New Film "The Woman King," The Tale Of An All-Female Army In West Afric
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(Movies)
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... had to make it her next project.
Viola Davis was already attached to star as General Nanisca, the leader of an all-female army known as the Agojie, whose members dedicated their lives to protecting the ...
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Created on 07 September 2022
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From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
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(Entertainment)
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... most of Schumer’s previous work, and that sensibility also extends to Hill’s character, who is named Murray but is a smarmy middle manager who gets excited about sales charts. “Amy had seen me at Joe’s ...
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Created on 16 June 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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... Army women.
Photo: Kilmainham Gaol, Ireland
1960s
British designer Mary Quant helps popularize the liberating miniskirt.
Photo: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo
1965
Middle ...
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Created on 12 April 2022
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"The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
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(Books)
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Before I started reading Ghanian author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s The Sex Lives of African Women, I was prepared to read titillating stories of women having clandestine meetings with random sexual partners ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
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(Entertainment)
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... to help over seventy more people escape slavery. The movie follows her through her life, from when she first escapes to the Civil War when Tubman joined the Union army. Harriet tells the full story of ...
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Created on 16 February 2022
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The Sustainable Fashion Trends You Should Be Adding To Your Shopping Cart This Year
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(Style)
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... communities, finding our own local boutiques to partner and shop with as consumers, should—and always— remain on trend too.
3. Capsule Wardrobing
Unsplash/ Alexandra Gorn
From our army of lounge ...
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Created on 12 January 2022
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The Princess of Pop-Punk Avril Lavigne is Back With a New Single, "Bite Me" ...
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(Music)
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... an army jacket but also a veteran of heartache, who’s learned her lesson too many times to be fooled again.
“Bite Me”’s 2000s nostalgia couldn't have come at a better time, as the pop-punk genre has ...
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Created on 12 November 2021
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How Y'All Doing? Actor, Singer, And Writer Leslie Jordan Is Pure Southern Sunshin
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(TV)
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... army man, died in a plane crash when Jordan was just 11. He was also raised in the Southern Baptist church—a tough place to be as a young gay man. “I quit going to church when the whole gay thing came ...
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Created on 16 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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... grenades to her jeep. Shortly after visiting multiple army hospitals, she would find herself admitted to one, spending three months bedridden with dysentery. “I nearly died in Vietnam,” she recalls. “I ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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The Remarkable Story of Three Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Traitors During WW II
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(Feminism)
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... The Oversteegen sisters had joined the underground army at the ages of just 15 and 17. Eventually, they met and became close friends with another member, Hannie Schaft, and the trio often worked together ...
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Created on 09 July 2021
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If you like hand lettering, chevron prints, or you're a #girlboss—You just might be "Cheug
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(Style)
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... We are all inherently cheugs. I, an inactive member of the Gen-Z army, own skinny jeans. I am acquainted with cheugs who can quote every Friends episode with citations when I think it would be cooler if ...
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Created on 08 June 2021
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In The Wake Of The Vanessa Guillén and Asia Graham Cases, Here's What Is Being Done To Address Sex Crimes in the U.S. Militar
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(Feminism)
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... Floyd protests, and recent instances in which sexual harassment and assault have turned deadly, such as in the cases of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén and Private First Class Asia Graham.
Studies show ...
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Created on 14 April 2021
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Remembering Author Beverly Cleary, Who Captured Young Imaginations Through Books Like "Ramona Quimby
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(Books)
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... and eloped with him in 1940, despite her parents’ disapproval of the fact that he was a Roman Catholic. Cleary worked at a library in Yakima, Washington; an army base in Oakland, California; and Sather ...
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Created on 29 March 2021
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Get Ready for Battle With The Gilded Ones: A YA Fantasy Novel Reminiscent of Octavia Butler
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(Books)
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... woman makes her an offer: stay in her community, or join the Alaki, an army of supernatural girls just like her, to defend the capital against Deathshrieks—pale monsters that terrorize villages all over ...
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Created on 09 February 2021
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14 Leaders And Officers Dismissed From The Army After Vanessa Guillén Investigation
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(General)
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Months after Vanessa Guillén's remains were found on June 30, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced that 14 leaders at Fort Hood are to be dismissed from the Army for her murder, reported CBS News. ...
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Created on 09 December 2020
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Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... They are going to raise—using their language—an “army” of 50,000 poll observers, who will ask people in line, “Are you allowed to vote here?” We’re going to have millions of first-time voters in 2020, ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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New Exhibit "Womxn in Windows" Faces Off Against Female Objectificatio
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(Arts)
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... POC Front And Center
How Crystal Nelson’s Character In Netflix’s “Grand Army” Inspired Her To Be Her True Self: BUST Interview
Diane Guerrero's Seductive Voting PSA, "Safe Voting Feels So Good," Hits ...
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Created on 22 October 2020
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San Francisco's CAREN Act Will Make Citizens Think Twice Before Placing Racially-Charged 911 Call
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(Living)
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On Tuesday, San Francisco voted in favor of the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, otherwise known as the CAREN Act. This legislation will give targets of racially biased 911 ...
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Created on 22 October 2020
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Women of Netflix's ‘GLOW’ Share Letter Asking for Better Representation Prior to Cancellatio
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(TV)
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The principal women of colour on Netflix’s GLOW took to Instagram on Monday to share a letter they wrote to the show’s creators and executive producers expressing their concerns over the representation ...
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Created on 20 October 2020
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How Crystal Nelson’s Character in Netflix’s “Grand Army” Inspired Her to Be Her True Self: BUST Interview
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(TV)
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Netflix’s newest drama Grand Army is a scary but unfortunately realistic portrayal of being a teenager in America. One of the students at this Brooklyn high school where the show is set is Tor. Portrayed ...
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Created on 16 October 2020