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You’re Invited: Celebrate "Project Runway's" Nina Garcia & Help Women Rise Against Violence at Womankind’s Virtual Gal
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(Sponsored)
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... women to the alarming rates of Black women dying from pregnancy complications, among other injustices. For the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, we continue to see the push for sex-selective ...
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Created on 14 October 2021
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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... was the first solo Black cover girl for Playboy in 1971. In July 2020, Bad Bunny graced the cover as the first solo male model, other than Hefner himself, and discussed his role as a queer ally in the ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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Doctors Marian Croak and Patricia Bath Are the First Black Women Inducted into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame, And Yeah, It's About Time
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(Feminism)
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... Bath, Ph.D., will be amongst the Hall of Fame’s 29 inductees in 2022. Croak and Bath are the first Black women to receive this distinction.
Croak, who currently heads Google's Research Center for Responsible ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Michaela Coel Destroys R*pe Culture in Uplifting Emmy Acceptance Speech Dedicated to Survivors of Sexual Assault
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(TV)
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... wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 12-episode sexual assault drama, is the first Black woman to ever win in this category. She even received a congratulatory stamp of approval from the queen of TV ...
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Created on 20 September 2021
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Josephine Baker, First Black Superstar of the Silver Screen, Makes Her Criterion Channel Debut In Featured Collection
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(Movies)
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... the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. Tropics is included in the collection along with Baker’s first talkie, Zou Zou (1934), a backstage musical surrounding a Black woman (Baker’s) unrequited ...
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Created on 13 September 2021
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St. Vincent, Tarana Burke, Courtney Stodden, Hailie Sahar, Women Who Get "Happy Endings", and more, in BUST's New Fall 2021 Issue, Out toda
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(Entertainment)
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... woman Neko Case!
Movies: Birds of Paradise took Language Lessons for Dating & New York.
Books Reviews; plus lit chat with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
SEX FILES ...
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Created on 31 August 2021
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How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
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(Feminism)
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In “BLACK EFFECT,” a track from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 2018 collaborative album “EVERYTHING IS LOVE,” Beyoncé describes a quintessential Black female form:
Stunt with your curls, your lips, Sarah Baartman ...
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Created on 20 August 2021
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We've Got a Long Way to Go: The Gossip Girl Reboot Promised Diversity, but Served Up More of the Same Old, Same Old Instea
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(TV)
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... Via HBO Max
Other diversity points aside, the reboot really missed an opportunity to cast either a brown skinned or dark skinned actress in a leading role. The show explicitly makes Zoya fully Black ...
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Created on 17 August 2021
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Wiki Cool: Art+Feminism Is Making The Internet More Equitable, One Article At A Time
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(Feminism)
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... articles. “When cis and trans women, non-binary people, Black and Indigenous people, and people of color are not represented in the writing and editing on the tenth-most-visited site in the world,” says ...
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Created on 11 August 2021
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She's a Winner Baby! Karrueche Tran Snags a Daytime Emmy, Makes History as the First AAPI Winner in the Leading Actress Category ...
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(TV)
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... of those wins for her work producing the show in 2016 and 2017.
Tran, who is Black-American and Vietnamese, spoke about her win on her Instagram Tran expressing, “to be a representation of a community ...
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Created on 21 July 2021
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Black Monuments Matter: Journalist and Civil-Rights Activist Ida B. Wells Gets Statue in Downtown Memphis
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(Feminism)
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Nearly 130 years ago famed journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells was driven out of Memphis for reporting on the lynching of three Black men; a statue of the former resident will be unveiled ...
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Created on 14 July 2021
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You Betta Werk! Mj Rodriguez Makes Emmy History, Becomes First Trans-woman Nominated in Leading Actress Category
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(TV)
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... its aesthetic appeal—glimmering costumes, gorgeous set designs—and compelling look into Black and Latinx ballroom culture of yesterday.
The show—which finished its third and final season last month—is ...
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Created on 13 July 2021
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The Founders of GirlTrek Are Making Major Moves For The Health of Black Women
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(Living)
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While teaching history at South Atlanta High School in the early 2000s, T. Morgan Dixon came across a startling statistic: 50 percent of Black girls in the U.S. will develop type 2 diabetes unless diet ...
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Created on 01 July 2021
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New Documentary by Beth B on Lydia Lunch, The War Is Never Over
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(Movies)
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... 2 Downing Film Center, Newburgh, NY — July 2 VIFF, Vancouver — July 16 - August 31
Live Appearances TV Eye, New York, NY (with Retrovirus) — July 2 Moroccan Room, Los Angeles, CA (with Sylvia Black ...
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Created on 01 July 2021
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Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
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(Living)
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June 22 is Octavia E. Butler’s birthday! Butler was a renowned Black author who wrote groundbreaking science fiction, Afro-futurist, and feminist books. She received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN ...
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Created on 22 June 2021
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UPDATE: This Jingle Dress Museum Exhibit Explores The History Of The Native Garment While Bringing Attention To The Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Movement
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(Arts)
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Historic art forms and stories are on full display at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park. A new addition to the museum is an exhibit on the Jingle Dress, a traditional Native garment typically worn during ...
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Created on 10 June 2021
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Don't Forget Your Story: Why Kink Will Always Belong in Prid
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(Living)
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The thunder vibrated up through the soles of my feet, and the exhaust pipes blasted through my ear drums, rattling my skull. Like a swarm of black hornets in the distance, I watched them rolling in. ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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Paperboy Prince is Changing the Face of New York Politics
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(Feminism)
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... and really appreciating the best in everyone.”
Growing up in Washington, D.C., their pastor parents took them to protests, they watched the work of Black filmmakers from the civil-rights era, and ...
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Created on 28 May 2021
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Happy Masturbation Month! Here Are 6 Books For Your Reading Pleasure
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(Books)
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... of the pleasure production industry.
Top photo via Deon Black on Unsplash More from BUST "How I F*ck" Host Natalie Rivera Discusses How She Started Her Own Podcast, The Importance of Sexual Pleasure, ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Kara Walker Helped Define An Entire Generation Of Black Creators—Now, Her Artwork Is On Full Display For The First Time
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(Arts)
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As controversial as she is celebrated, Kara Walker is a prolific artist who helped define an entire generation of Black creators. Now, her collected works on paper from 1992 through 2020 have been gathered ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
