- 1. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... Then, this past August, a teacher in my homestate of Oklahoma, faced termination, and was later forced to resign, because she provided her students access to books by writers like Zora Neal Hurston, poet Maya ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 2. Fight Back Against Book Censorship in The US With These 4 Actionable Steps
- (Books)
- Believe it or not, the American Library Association has recorded over 155 attempts at book censorship in the U.S. since June 2021. And this number is vastly underreported, since it doesn’t account for ...
- Created on 02 May 2022
- 3. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... a nationwide outrage, but subsequently unearthed global interest and conversations surrounding diverse books, narratives, and businesses. Due to a lack of representation both in publishing and in bookstore ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 4. Where is Peng Shuai? Chinese Tennis Player Disappears From Public Eye After Sharing Her #MeToo Story. She Reappears for Video Call with IOC President, But Why Are They Ignoring the Allegations?
- (Feminism)
- ... history of censorship by the government, targeting social media, journalists, and heavily restricting international media and influence. Sites like Facebook, Instagram, and some Google websites are restricted ...
- Created on 23 November 2021
- 5. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... into their genitourinary tracts. Douching with Lysol after sex as a way to deter pregnancy may sound ludicrous, but according to historian Andrea Tone in her book Devices and Desire: A History of Contraceptives ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 6. Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... I could do on my own. I think this book is going to feel really uplifting for a lot of people. When it first came out, there was a lot of homophobia and censorship, it did not reach a wide audience ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 7. Feminist Comedian Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator Of "The Daily Show," Wants You To Laugh To Keep From Crying: Bust Intervie
- (Entertainment)
- ... Facebook and Instagram had done the same thing. According to Winstead, the only part of her bio that could possibly be interpreted as profanity is the word "abortion." Abortion Access Front’s mission, ...
- Created on 17 December 2020
- 8. Margaret Atwood Is Here To Save Us (Again), But This Time With Self-Quarantine Recommendations
- (Books)
- ... just like the rest of us. And in our time of need, she is here to give us recommendations for the following: plague books, comforting books, and poetry books to read while in quarantine as well as stupid, ...
- Created on 20 March 2020
- 9. Pussy Riot Video Shoot Shut Down by Russian Police for Promoting “Gay Propaganda”
- (Music)
- ... be made. Photographed by Jeaneen Lund More From BUST "Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide To Activism" Is The Kind Of Guidebook We Need Right Now Pussy Riot Members Re-Arrested Immediately After Release ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 10. This Russian Artist is Facing Six Years in Prison for LGBTQ+ Rights Instagram Posts
- (Arts)
- A Russian artist is facing six years in jail for posting LGBTQ+ rights and feminist posts on social media. Yulia Tsvetkova was recently put on house arrest and has been fined 50,000 rubels (or about ...
- Created on 17 January 2020
- 11. Let Them Sit On Cake: Professional Cake Sitter Lindsay Dye On Art, Camming, And The Decriminalization of Sex Work
- (Arts)
- ... pleasure of catching one of Dye’s performances on September 25 at Bluestockings Bookstore. In a way, the effect and experience of watching cake-sitting begins in the anticipation, excitement, and confusion. ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 12. Shadow Banning: Why Women Are Pretending To Be Men On Instagram
- (Feminism)
- ... get it right! A post shared by EveryBODYVisible (@everybodyvisible) on Nov 4, 2019 at 7:14am PST In a statement to the HuffPost, a Facebook spokesperson denied Instagram’s alleged bias against ...
- Created on 20 November 2019
- 13. Why Are Airlines Censoring The Queer Storyline In "Booksmart"
- (Feminism)
- The film Booksmart shows graduating seniors Molly and Amy on a wild romp through their last 24 hours before high school graduation—a day packed with parties, plot twists, and romance. Despite the film’s ...
- Created on 29 October 2019
- 14. Man Murders Teenage Girl, Posts Pictures Of It Online
- (Feminism)
- ... they had by virtue of age, gender, and his outright inclination towards violence. While Devins had spent her spring finishing her senior year of highschool, Clark spent his days as an admin of the Facebook ...
- Created on 17 July 2019
- 15. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sued For Blocking Critics On Twitter
- (General)
- New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was served a lawsuit on Tuesday after blocking former New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind on Twitter. Suing on the grounds of First Amendment violations, ...
- Created on 10 July 2019
- 16. A Ugandan Feminist Wrote A Poem About A Vagina, Then She Was Arrested
- (Feminism)
- ... in academia and social justice, especially in her efforts to defend LGBTQ people and sex workers. In September of 2018, she posted a poem on Facebook that critiqued Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. ...
- Created on 09 July 2019
- 17. This Mother-Daughter Duo Challenged Expectations For Women In The Early 1900s
- (Entertainment)
- ... night, and I cannot bring myself to read a miserable book…Yes, as you guess, Ellen, I am having a bad attack of you just at present. I am restless; and a man’s restlessness always means a woman; and my ...
- Created on 08 March 2019
- 18. Gingerbread Cookies Are All Obviously Men, According to Fox News Contributor
- (Feminism)
- Well folks, Fox News has broadcasted yet another embarrassingly confusing approach to political sensitivity, this one so absurd, it is liable to make you laugh until your eggnog comes shooting out your ...
- Created on 20 December 2018
- 19. In Egypt, Women Are Being Jailed for Sharing their #metoo Stories
- (Feminism)
- Seven years ago, social media users spurred Egypt’s civil war. Now, one woman’s disparaging post on Facebook has landed her in a Cairo jail cell. A recent feature in WIRED details the plight of ...
- Created on 16 October 2018
- 20. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... have created a whole literature of consciousness-raising and politics and emotions that is as deep and important and probably more influential in a populist way than many of the books that came out at ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
