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Women’s Pain Matters: The Implicit Gender Bias in Healthcare
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(Living)
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... challenge and change its deep-rooted patriarchal perception and understanding of women and women’s tolerance of pain; doing so could literally save lives.
Top picture by Imani Bahati via Unsplash
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Created on 15 April 2021
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The Impossible Task of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty and Body Standard
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(Living)
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... Challenge; to buy her “lip kits” and make her the youngest “self-made” billionaire ever; and, in some cases, to get silicone injected into their own lips. More recently, Kim Kardashian’s wasp-like hourglass ...
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Created on 13 April 2021
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Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
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(TV)
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... mid-century Upper West Side Jewish culture, downtown underground comedy (even the grime has a pleasant glow), and the challenges facing a woman actively shunning the main roles she’s expected to play—namely ...
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Created on 07 April 2021
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Two Women Were Charged With Murder After Delivering Stillborn Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Group
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(Feminism)
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Two cases in which women were charged with murder after delivering stillborn babies in Kings County, California, have recently resurfaced and sparked outrage. Chelsea Becker and Adora Perez were each ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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8 AAPI Organizations To Support Right Now
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(Feminism)
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... collective meant to uplift AAPI women both in leadership positions and those that have been marginalized. According to their website, their goal is to “challenge and help end the intersections of violence” ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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Social Justice Illustrator Shirien Damra Re-envisions A Better Future Through Art: BUST Interview
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(Arts)
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... of justification for their murders,” Damra says. “I wanted to challenge that demonization by creating something soft and loving for Ahmaud, Breonna, and George.”
Shirien Damra
After posting those ...
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Created on 13 March 2021
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Explore The "Streets" of Doja Cat's Dark and Seductive World in Her Newest Video ...
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(Music)
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It’s only fitting that Doja Cat’s video for “Streets” opens up with her doing the famous #SilhouetteChallenge that has spawned almost 400 million views on TikTok. The challenge consists of a person ...
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Created on 10 March 2021
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Roe v. Wade Doesn't Actually Make Abortion Accessible For Everyone. This Short Film Explains Why
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(Movies)
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... the helpline and found them riveting. We realized the impact these calls had firsthand, and how they helped create an understanding of the overlapping challenges of living as a person struggling financially. ...
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Created on 03 March 2021
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Andra Day Reveals Why She Required Months of Forced Rest After Making The US vs. Billie Holiday: BUST Interview
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(Movies)
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A powerful R&B singer and songwriter, Andra Day was challenged like never before when she was cast to play the lead in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a role which won her a Golden Globe award ...
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Created on 01 March 2021
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Get In Loser, We're Going Foragin
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(Living)
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... season is rather short. Many other birds and mammals favor berries as well, so you’ll have stiff competition.
Nuts: You’ll be presented with the challenge of getting the nut meat out, but many wild ...
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Created on 25 February 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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This past year has been especially challenging for everyone. These challenges grow ever more prevalent when it comes to those combatting medical issues, even those separate from COVID-19. As the current ...
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Created on 23 February 2021
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How She Shreds Is Helping Women Of Color Heal (And Learn Guitar) During A Pandemic
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(Music)
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... and bassists, started an online challenge that encourages women and non-binary musicians to commit to playing and posting one riff (a 5-minute jam session) a day for an entire month.
This January was ...
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Created on 19 February 2021
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Female-Led Indie Movies Dominated Releases This Past Year: Here Are Ten You Should Watch (Without Going To The Theater)
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(Movies)
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... spotlight the complex relationships of adolescent girls, but it is also revelatory of the current challenges that arise in pursuing an abortion (i.e. the issue of American crisis pregnancy centers). You ...
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Created on 16 February 2021
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Entrepreneur Tennille Teague Gives Us A Lesson On Carving Your Own Path (While Saving The Animals)
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(Living)
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... challenges “from a short-term business perspective.” However, Teague has noticed that during this time, the number of people adopting or fostering dogs has grown exponentially. “Long-term, we are seeing ...
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Created on 05 February 2021
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You Know The Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Meet Her Antithesis.
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(Entertainment)
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... “find himself.”
But many shows, movies, and books have challenged this idea by introducing characters who are similarly irrevent, but the stars of their own stories. I call these the Anti-Manic Pixie ...
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Created on 29 January 2021
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Jane Fonda: A Rebel With a Cause. Exclusive BUST Interview
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(Feminism)
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... played a crucial role. “Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice kind of blew the top of my head off,” she says. The 1982 gender studies classic takes on the male-oriented field of psychology and challenges ...
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Created on 07 January 2021
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What We All Can Learn From Lizzo’s 10-Day Cleanse: Leave Her (And Everyone Else's) Body TF Alon
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(Entertainment)
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... and vegetables. What was supposed to be a well-needed challenge for Lizzo, turned into a gaslighting and body-policing nightmare from both fat shamers and anti-diet activists which prompted Lizzo to turn ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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For Women With ADHD, LadyHD Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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(Entertainment)
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... writer Jenn Welch.
After being diagnosed at 28, Welch found the challenges of being a woman with ADHD to be especially difficult because of traditional expectations of women regarding domestic and emotional ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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14 Leaders And Officers Dismissed From The Army After Vanessa Guillén Investigation
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(General)
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... mother she would handle it.
"The tragic death of Vanessa Guillén and a rash of other challenges at Fort Hood forced us to take a critical look at our systems, our policies and ourselves," said Army Secretary, ...
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Created on 09 December 2020
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Director Ekwa Msangi and Actor Jayme Lawson Tell An Intimate Immigration Story With "Farewell Amor": BUST Intervie
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(Movies)
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... parts of the continent for sure, but Black women are also resilient. Black women everywhere. So yeah, we might have challenges but that doesn't mean we don't cry, make love, have children, have families, ...
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Created on 08 December 2020