- 1. Sundance 2023: Women Directors Tackle Themes of Frankenstein, Introverts and Little Richard
- (Movies)
- ... Beginning with his difficult trial blazing path as a queer black artist in the 50’s, to his days of drug fueled orgies, his struggles with his demons, eventually joining the church and renouncing his homosexuality, ...
- Created on 21 January 2023
- 2. Regina Hall Shares Her Thoughts On That Infamous Oscar's Night, The Meaning of Feminism, and What She Learned From Her Beloved Bulldog : BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... a huge Southern Baptist megachurch rocked by scandal. And then, on December 22, she’ll be returning to Peacock with The Best Man: The Final Chapters, a limited series that reunites both the cast of the ...
- Created on 27 October 2022
- 3. Women Have Been Aiding And Abetting Abortion For Centuries. So How And When Did The Witchcraft Narrative Begin?
- (Feminism)
- ... the Civil War (and wasn’t officially forbidden by the Catholic Church until Pope Pius IX issued an edict against them in 1869), in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South America, abortion had been ...
- Created on 19 September 2022
- 4. LA-Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's Latest, "Lapvona" is Out Now. Plus, A Peek At Her Fiction Practice ...
- (Books)
- ... really easy. My home is built out of stones collected from a church after an earthquake. I even have a mission bell. So, there's this sacred chill that runs through the place and the nature surrounding ...
- Created on 23 June 2022
- 5. "Thank You For Supporting The Arts," A Documentary on Portland Oregon Stripper Viva Las Vegas, Asks The Question, "Is Stripping an Art Form?" ...
- (Feminism)
- ... couch in her childhood home in St. Paul, Minnesota, going to church with her father who’s a minister, and strumming her guitar in her backyard. Throughout the hour-long documentary, Viva is depicted as ...
- Created on 19 January 2022
- 6. Yola Takes a Stand: The UK Soul-Singer Discusses Her New Album, "Stand for Myself," and How She Melds Pop and Soul Together to Make Music That Expresses Both the Joy and Harshness of Life ...
- (Music)
- ... down the aisle of the church, I realized how much of her life was filled with so much drama and all of that was boiled down to this box. It felt like some sick punch line or like the final scene of a South ...
- Created on 08 November 2021
- 7. For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
- (General)
- ... off evil spirits, and telling fortunes. About a thousand years later, when Christianity overtook the Celtic nations, the church declared November 1 as All Saints Day (aka All Hallows’ Day), a holiday ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 8. Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
- (Feminism)
- ... the first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest, subsequently, this was also the first year women were ordained in that church, period. The idea to do a documentary came about when ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 9. The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
- (Movies)
- ... So, I was bad, and Marilyn was good.” The Catholic church would come for her, too. The “Legion of Decency” was a rating system created by the Church to censor films they deemed indecent and immoral. ...
- Created on 08 September 2021
- 10. Monique DeBose Celebrates "Brown Beauty" In Her Newest Music Video: BUST Intervie
- (Music)
- ... going great. When I first recorded it and heard it back in the studio, it was an emotional experience. The song is so simple but the message is so full. It was like a church moment or a spiritual moment, ...
- Created on 25 June 2021
- 11. Meet Crystal Cheatham, The Queer Christian Activist Who's New Bible App Delivers Inspiration Without Persecutio
- (Living)
- ... Cheatham planned on pursuing a career in the church, but when she came out at 23, her mentors made it clear that her queerness limited her leadership potential. “I saw that as a Black, lesbian, activist, ...
- Created on 01 April 2021
- 12. The Nouveau Gospel: Wild Belle's Natalie Bergman On Her Solo Debut Album and Finding Heaven Beyond Grie
- (Music)
- ... family’s church back in Chicago. Bergman describes the creation of Mercy as her “journey to find [some] sort of heaven while we’re here.” Many of Bergman’s musical “favorites,” from Aretha Franklin to ...
- Created on 23 February 2021
- 13. Director Ekwa Msangi and Actor Jayme Lawson Tell An Intimate Immigration Story With "Farewell Amor": BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- Writer/director Ekwa Msangi’s feature film debut, Farewell Amor, follows an Angolan family as they attempt to reconnect after almost two decades living on different continents. Walter (Ntare Mwine) and ...
- Created on 08 December 2020
- 14. Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
- (Feminism)
- ... up knowing those were my three jobs: go to church, go to school, and take care of each other. They didn’t simply tell us that this is what we were supposed to do; they showed us. They would take us to ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 15. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- ... concluded: 'Judges cannot-nor should they try to-align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge". However, also reported by Ms. Magazine, as a 7th Circuit Court Judge, ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 16. Saints and Sinners: The Madonna-Whore Complex in "Yes, God, Yes
- (Movies)
- While in middle school, I found myself in the beam of a youth group chaperone’s flashlight while dancing “too close” to a boy in a Michigan church. “Leave room for Jesus!” the chaperone shouted at us ...
- Created on 04 September 2020
- 17. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... to a woman from Colorado speak at her church on the subject of suffrage. It inspired Gordon to found a club called the “ERA” club--“Equal Rights for All.” Unfortunately, however, Gordon turned out to be ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 18. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
- (Movies)
- ... recorded history behind why Ross was chosen to create the nation’s first flag, some suppose that it was largely in part due to her being a nice lady who sat next to George Washington at church who sewed ...
- Created on 10 July 2020
- 19. Musician Ashley McBryde On Loss, Her Influences, And New Album “Never Will”: BUST Interview
- (Music)
- ... and country megastar Eric Church invited her onstage at one of his concerts. People were starting to take notice of McBryde in a big way. And with the release of Girl Going Nowhere the following year, ...
- Created on 07 May 2020
- 20. Taylor Tomlinson Talks Her New Netflix Special—And The Journey Leading Up To It: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... church basements to having her own featured special on one of the world's largest streaming services. How did you get started in comedy in general? What was your first gig? When I was sixteen, my dad ...
- Created on 12 March 2020
