- 1. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... I also wish for something else: to elevate biography as an untapped tool for helping readers navigate grief. Below are 10 biographies that explore grief in deeply felt and impactful ways. Walk With ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 2. "Legends of Drag" Pays Homage To Drag Icons "Of A Certain Age" Who Paved The Way For The Queens of Today ...
- (Books)
- ... in striking portraits complete with Antheus’ custom floral arrangements. The accompanying biographies offer a window into these drag legends’ groundbreaking journeys; the hardships, the joy, the bliss ...
- Created on 21 June 2022
- 3. Standup Comedy Star Ms. Pat Gets Real About Poverty, Resiliency, And Lane Bryant Fashion Travesties On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast!
- (Poptarts)
- ... was named one of Amazon’s best biographies of the year, and now she’s gearing up for season two of her BET+ sitcom The Ms. Pat Show! In this episode of BUST's Poptarts Podcast, she reveals how she found ...
- Created on 06 May 2022
- 4. “Lucy and Desi," Amy Poehler's New Documentary About TV Pioneers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Is An Intimate Look Into An Early Power Couple's Private Life ...
- (Movies)
- ... Arnaz recorded in preparation for their individual autobiographies. Thanks to Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill (the couple's first born), the audiotapes along with never-before-seen retro home videos were made available ...
- Created on 07 March 2022
- 5. Dr. Carol Queen Commemorates Activist Margo St. James With a Guided Tour of the Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
- (Feminism)
- ... Educate yourself. There’s plenty to read about sex work, sex workers’ rights, and/or health care. Great books, articles, autobiographies, and websites await you! To start, try Revolting Prostitutes by ...
- Created on 19 July 2021
- 6. Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... into history, and you're trying to find the lesbian photographers, because their biographies at that time especially didn't talk about their sexuality, you had to read between the lines. And so not only ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 7. Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
- (Music)
- When Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes, died suddenly on Monday, February 9, 2021, we lost a true legend. Her longtime friend and publicist Jay Schwartz released a statement deeming Wilson ...
- Created on 10 February 2021
- 8. Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project's" Genesis, Backlash And What's N
- (Feminism)
- ... even when sometimes I’m on Twitter showing my ass,” she says, chuckling. “[Having read] the autobiographies of heroines of journalism and civil rights activists, I know that people trying to take down ...
- Created on 14 January 2021
- 9. “Ammonite” Overlooks the Real Life Story of Paleontologist Mary Anning
- (Movies)
- ... herself. The creative liberties Lee has taken with the real life biographies of his characters extend beyond Charlotte’s career choices. Mary and Charlotte were friends, but whether or not they were ...
- Created on 13 November 2020
- 10. Lucille Bridges, Mother Of Civil Rights Movement Icon, Passes Away at 86
- (General)
- Lucille Bridges, the mother of one of the most recognizable and influential civil rights leaders, passed away yesterday. Because human life is fleeting, we tend to think of great injustices in this ...
- Created on 12 November 2020
- 11. Ida B. Wells To Be Honored In Art Installation At D.C. Union Station Next Week
- (Feminism)
- Investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and suffragette Ida B. Wells is being honored in a temporary art installation at Union Station in Washington D.C. next week. The ode to Wells comes in ...
- Created on 21 August 2020
- 12. 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
- (Feminism)
- 100 years ago, the 19th amendment, allowing women the right to vote, was passed. But although the amendment was written to give women of all races the right to vote, in practice, it was mostly white ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 13. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
- (Movies)
- ... founding fathers to mini-biographies on the three Schuyler sisters. Although refreshing to see a renewed focus on the historical women of a male-dominated musical, we couldn’t help but note that there ...
- Created on 10 July 2020
- 14. Meet Julie d'Aubigny: The French Gender-bending Opera Diva Your History Teacher Didn't Want You To Know Abo
- (Feminism)
- ... her, at least one ballet, one corny movie (Madamigella di Maupin, 1966), and a French television mini-series (Julie, Chevalier de Maupin, 2004). She’s also been the subject of numerous biographies and ...
- Created on 29 April 2020
- 15. Meet The Real-Life Women Of Hulu’s New “Mrs. America,” A Series About The ERA
- (TV)
- The United States, 1972. The Equal Rights Amendment has now been ratified by both the House and the Senate and will move on to state legislatures for ratification after dozens of feminists fought for ...
- Created on 03 April 2020
- 16. This Mother-Daughter Suffragist Duo Almost Got Left Out The Movement's Memor
- (Feminism)
- ... accounts. So I worked to make sure “Votes for Women” included portraits of women whose biographies are less well known. And in my search for objects that would represent their lives, I came across ...
- Created on 11 September 2019
- 17. More Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- ... in 1935. But what do we really know about him? Few wrote about Thomas More while he lived. It was only in death that his life became truly important and only through subsequent biographies that the enduring ...
- Created on 17 July 2019
- 18. The Power of Popular Fiction For Thomas Cromwell And Wolf Hall
- (Living)
- ... by masterminding Henry VIII’s split with Rome but rather by dint of exceptional skills as an administrator.” There are more post-Wolf Hall Cromwell biographies, all in the same vein. One purports to ...
- Created on 26 June 2019
- 19. "The Future Is Female!" Celebrates Women Sci-Fi Writers Of The 1920s-1960
- (Books)
- ... Yaszek provides lengthy biographies of each contributor at the end of the Future Is Female!, which is cool for so many reasons. As an aspiring fiction writer, it’s motivating to learn how these women ...
- Created on 08 January 2019
- 20. What The World Needs Now Is L7
- (Music)
- ... consists of reading memoirs, biographies, and scouring archives and the internet for interviews, album, and live reviews. I always check Wikipedia, too. And yes, Wikipedia is an open source platform, meaning ...
- Created on 24 April 2018
