- 1. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... and dehumanized. Beyond anti-sex laws, powerful censorship policies silenced queer media and publication houses and erased queer characters from films. Television stations aired jaw-dropping public service ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 2. Hulu Rolls Back Censoring Policy After Facing Blowback From Democrats
- (TV)
- ... young voters as evidenced by the user statistics, which reveal that 37% of the subscribers are Millenials, and 17% are Gen Z. Democrats were furious about this censorship, and #BoycottHulu quickly started ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 3. Mass School Shootings and "Stranger Things": A Look at America's Obsession With Violence in Tv and Film and It's Effect On All Of ...
- (Entertainment)
- ... are the cultural values that we are metabolizing? Are we being desensitized to gun violence on screen so that we will not speak up when real violence ensues? I’m not advocating for harsh censorship laws. ...
- Created on 14 June 2022
- 4. 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
- 5. Elon Musk, Grimes' Baby Daddy, Just Bought Twitter And The Internet Has A Lot To Say
- (Feminism)
- ... vision for Twitter includes releasing it from censorship restrictions to foster freedom of speech and democracy. This may lead to a surge in disinformation and welcome more trolls and bullies to a space ...
- Created on 27 April 2022
- 6. HBO's "Minx" Is a Light-Hearted Comedy About a '70s Erotic Magazine For Wom
- (TV)
- ... of the early 1970’s. For better or worse, the series also gave me some serious flashbacks to all of the issues of censorship I had to deal with when I was working as a magazine editor in China. I love ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 7. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- The tragic and senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery coupled with the rise in Asian American hate crimes amidst a literary censorship of voices of color; not only sparked ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 8. 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
- 9. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Life Threatened in Anime-Themed Parody Video Shared Online by Far-Right Politician Paul Gosar
- (Feminism)
- ... his anime video of AOC minutes after the results of the House censure vote. It’s increasingly evident that any feelings of regret were a facade. In a closing statement following Gosar’s censorship, Democrats ...
- Created on 19 November 2021
- 10. China to "Put an End to Sissy Men" With Ban on Effeminate Men on T
- (Feminism)
- ... the world, but efforts to protest in China were met with censorship. The women were released, but are still under government surveillance. President Xi Jinping calls these new censorships a “national ...
- Created on 10 September 2021
- 11. The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
- (Movies)
- ... Now 90 and as daring as ever, Van Doren opens up about sexism, censorship, and that time she almost hooked up with Marlene Dietrich. “Mamie Van Doren is a Hollywood icon. Tough as diamonds, she is the ...
- Created on 08 September 2021
- 12. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... and hairless vaginas, according to historian Andrea Tone, the earliest roots of this phrase can be found in censorship laws. In the 1920s, advertisers coined the term to evade Comstock Laws while selling ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 13. 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
- 14. Feminist Comedian Lizz Winstead, Co-Creator Of "The Daily Show," Wants You To Laugh To Keep From Crying: Bust Intervie
- (Entertainment)
- In the year of the pivot, comedians have had to get creative with their venues. At least for now, the days of packed, basement-dark comedy clubs and soaring, Liberace-esque amphitheaters are gone. Instead, ...
- Created on 17 December 2020
- 15. This UK Tampax Ad Was Pulled From Ireland Airwaves For Being Too “Vulgar”
- (Feminism)
- ... ban this ad is simply unacceptable. Censorship of information on sexuality and reproduction belongs in the past.” Charlotte Amrouche, who hosts menstruation workshops in Ireland added, “To ban the ad on ...
- Created on 02 September 2020
- 16. Drawing Vaginas Can Get You Jailed in Russia
- (Arts)
- ... center, and have actively spoken out on social media, so I went against their censorship. The persecution of activists, LGBTQ people, and feminists is a state policy, it’s happening all over Russia.” When ...
- Created on 13 July 2020
- 17. Margaret Atwood Is Here To Save Us (Again), But This Time With Self-Quarantine Recommendations
- (Books)
- ... in breaking the taboo of talking about sexuality and other social issues in a repressive Ireland after WWII. All three of the novels were even banned by the Irish Censorship Board and faced harsh criticism ...
- Created on 20 March 2020
- 18. Pussy Riot Video Shoot Shut Down by Russian Police for Promoting “Gay Propaganda”
- (Music)
- ... $15K that they spent on production and will never be able to get back, all due to these “gay propaganda” laws and censorship at the hand of the Russian government. With lyrics like, “A police baton on ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 19. This Russian Artist is Facing Six Years in Prison for LGBTQ+ Rights Instagram Posts
- (Arts)
- ... expression. Header Screenshot Courtesy of Current Time via RadioFreeEurope More from BUST LGBTQ Creators Are Suing YouTube For Homophobic Censorship At Least 12 Trans People Have Been Murdered ...
- Created on 17 January 2020
- 20. The Trump Administration Is Erasing LGBTQ-Related Data From Government Websites
- (Feminism)
- The Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project released its latest trend report on how LGBTQ-related language and content has changed under the Trump administration. According to Fast Company, the ...
- Created on 24 November 2019
