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"Thank You For Supporting The Arts" A Documentary on Portland Oregon Stripper Viva Las Vegas, Asks The Question, "Is Stripping an Art Form?" ...
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(Feminism)
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... period of time, the documentary takes audiences to unexpected places. At age 33 Viva was diagnosed with breast cancer, went through many rounds of chemotherapy, and had a double mastectomy. Nine months ...
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Created on 19 January 2022
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The Silly, Kitschy Holiday Ornaments That Deserve To Be Adorned All Over Your Christmas Tree
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(Living)
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... The Season, Amazon
This is a great gift for a breast cancer survivor, or white elephant gift. Celebrating all boobie shapes and sizes, you can show your support (pun intended) for a friend, or even ...
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Created on 20 December 2021
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10 Female-Driven Holiday Films To Cozy Up With This Winter
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(Movies)
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... at her and her boyfriend, Bobby’s (Derek Luke), apartment after discovering that her mother (Patricia Clarkson) is dying from breast cancer. As April’s family makes the trek from suburbia into the city, ...
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Created on 02 December 2021
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English TV Presenter Davina McCall Combats the Taboo Topic of Menopause in 2 Channel 4 Documentaries, Helping to Persuade the British Government to Reduce the Cost of Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs ...
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(Feminism)
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... dryness, weight gain, depression, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, memory problems, dry skin, mouth, and eyes, increased urination, sore or tender breasts, racing heart, urinary tract infections (UTIs, ...
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Created on 24 November 2021
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Shannen Doherty Calls Out Hollywood’s Beauty Standards And The Lack of Representation for "Women Who Embraced their Face" In A Makeup-Free Selfi
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(Feminism)
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... with breast cancer back in 2015. Despite the cancer being in remission in 2017, last year, the actress revealed the cancer returned and had progressed to stage 4. Due to her illness, Doherty has struggled ...
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Created on 09 June 2021
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Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
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(Music)
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... music — and starred as Mary Magdalene in the Broadway rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in the mid-1990s. She died in 2004 after a battle with breast cancer.
3. Brenda Holloway
Brenda Holloway ...
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Created on 10 February 2021
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12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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(Books)
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... is diagnosed with breast cancer, and Thandi becomes her caretaker. After her mother dies, we see how grief follows Thandi as she has her own child, struggles with marriage, and grapples with watching her ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
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In Bad Cop/Bad Cop's “Pursuit of Liberty,” Aggression And Compassion Collide: BUST Premier
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(Music)
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... for different ailments, then discovered she had stage one breast cancer at the end of the year. Fortunately, it was highly treatable, but the experience was life-altering. Dee captures it with brutal frankness ...
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Created on 15 May 2020
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What New Generations Can Learn From Elizabeth Wurtzel's Legac
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(Books)
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... and dangerous sublandlord, the truth about her real father, her marriage in 2015, and finally, her second round of cancer.
On January 7, at the age of 52, Wurtzel died of breast cancer. Yes, we have ...
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Created on 07 January 2020
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This Professor Created A Lifesaving Drug — And She's Donating All Her Profit
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(Living)
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... Health Service) across the country, Rubraca targets cancerous cells of individuals that carry the BRCA gene, which is linked to ovarian and breast cancer. Leaving other cells mostly unharmed, Rubraca attacks ...
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Created on 04 December 2019
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NASA Will Finally Make Their Space Suits More Size-Inclusive
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(Feminism)
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... use men as their "neutral," those results will not be a wholly accurate understanding of the myriad ways someone could experience a drug or disease. One infamous 1986 study about breast and uterine cancer ...
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Created on 17 October 2019
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“The Plastic Age We’re Living In”: Artist Portia Munson on Her Environmentalist Art & the Power of the Color Pink
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(Arts)
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A bubblegum pink Barbie hairbrush. Gummy rubber bracelets inscribed with breast cancer ribbons and the word “hope.” A cake topper proclaiming, “It’s a Girl!” A bouquet of fake roses. These are just ...
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Created on 12 July 2019
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13.
How To Spot A Fake Abortion Clinic
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(Living)
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... types of abortion they describe, or if they emphasize the risks or a bunch of (fully debunked, btw) dangers of abortion (like that it causes breast cancer—it. does. not), they’re fake AF. Another red flag ...
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Created on 26 June 2019
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14.
Why Sterilization At 31 Was This Woman's Plan
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(Living)
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... appeared in the May/June 2019 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
More from BUST
Why I Had A Breast Reduction At 18
These Activists Are Fighting To End Female Genital Mutilation ...
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Created on 12 June 2019
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Polly Rosenwaike Explores Motherhood In "Look How Happy I'm Making You": BUST Intervi
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(Books)
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Polly Rosenwaike’s debut story collection, Look How Happy I’m Making You, examines the period of early motherhood. Her characters are women in the throes of all aspects of reproduction—from breastfeeding ...
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Created on 12 April 2019
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16.
Kathleen Collins' Posthumous Collection Is A Necessary Read
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(Books)
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... the narrative of Black female experience at a time of racial tension. Readers will marvel at Collins’ complexity and mourn her premature death at 46 from breast cancer. That loss will always feel like ...
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Created on 12 April 2019
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17.
Legendary Filmmaker Agnès Varda Has Died At 90
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(Entertainment)
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... company, Ciné-Tamaris, confirmed her death from a short battle with breast cancer, The New York Times reports.
Born Arlette Varda on May 30th, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium to a Greek father and a French ...
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Created on 29 March 2019
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18.
Feeling Myself: 7 Feminist-Friendly Sex Shops Across America
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(Sex)
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... lubricant after breast cancer treatment. “We’re a conservative state,” Thompson explains. “There are a lot of people who never bought anything for their own intimacy until they were in pain. Pain finally ...
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Created on 25 March 2019
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10 Women Who Are Changing The Comedy Game In 2018
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(Entertainment)
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... a stand-up comic, writer, and actor who has mastered deadpan comedy. Tig’s humor is self-effacing and she frequently processes grief in her comedy. Tig was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and based ...
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Created on 20 December 2018
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#NastyWomen: A Night Of Female Resistance Comedy, AKA Stand-Up That's Actually Funn
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(Entertainment)
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... 20th. The January 28th show will partner with inKind Space, an app that supports women with breast cancer, and the April 15th show will feature a line-up of exclusively transgender women comedians–an important ...
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Created on 14 November 2018
