- 1. Badass Nebraska Senator Vows to Block Anti-Trans Legislation "I Will Burn the Session to the Ground Over This Bill.
- (Feminism)
- ... of congress have utilized filibusters to simply get out of doing their jobs, or have used the filibuster to stop the progress of social justice legislation, (especially during the civil rights era) so, ...
- Created on 17 March 2023
- 2. Taylor Swift Just Released Four New Songs, and the Hunger Games Vibes are Strong
- (Music)
- ... to reunite Joy Williams and John Paul White, who once performed under the name The Civil Wars, for “Safe & Sound” (and who were featured on the original version of the song.) This was no small feat, as ...
- Created on 17 March 2023
- 3. The B-52s & Cyndi Lauper Speak Out Against Anti-LGBTQIA+ Legislation
- (Feminism)
- ... waning civil liberties. On March 8th, the B-52’s tweeted a black background with a caption that read “Dear fellow citizens, We, The B-52’s, are deeply concerned about the numerous new bills that promote ...
- Created on 10 March 2023
- 4. 'Abbott Elementary''s Sheryl Lee Ralph Makes History with Super Bowl Performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ...
- (TV)
- ... Voice and Sing” as an unofficial Black anthem in 1917. The song was used “as a rallying cry during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.” The NFL has included “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before ...
- Created on 13 February 2023
- 5. 8 Best Horror Movies of 2022 Featuring Women to Watch (or Rewatch) at Your Next Movie Night
- (Movies)
- The horror genre has, historically, not been very kind to women. Misogynistic tropes seem to thrive in the world of horror–from the hypersexualized teenage girl to the “morally superior” virgin to the ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 6. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... at the helm. Thousands of LGBTQ civil servants were branded as national security risks and forced out of government careers. The FBI infiltrated and monitored the early gay rights organizations of the ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 7. From The BUST Archives: Buffy Sainte-Marie Discusses Her 2009 Album "Running For The Drum," Feminism, The 1960's, and Breastfeeding On "Sesame Street?" ...
- (Music)
- Throughout her 47 years in show business, Sainte-Marie has always done things on her own terms, and she has piles of awards to show for it, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her most widely ...
- Created on 10 October 2022
- 8. Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
- (Books)
- ... one of the most power voices in the civil rights era. She helped organize Freedom Summer in 1964, a voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in the segregated ...
- Created on 29 September 2022
- 9. 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
- 10. Meet The Badass Flight Attendants of the 1960s Who Stood Up To Corporate Giants and Won
- (Books)
- ... endeavors. Gibbs meets more and more enraged women as she rises to union leadership. We also meet Sonia Pressman, a lawyer who played a role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which had a ...
- Created on 21 July 2022
- 11. 3 New Feminist Titles That Examine Women's Place In Civilization And Society: BUST Review
- (Books)
- Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism By Joanna Scutts (Seal Press) Among the stories left untold from the women’s rights movement is the history ...
- Created on 11 July 2022
- 12. 6 Strategies We Can Take From Latin American Abortion Rights Activists During Our Fight for Reproductive Justice
- (Feminism)
- ... brown people who have minimal access to abortions. We can learn from the Colombian civil rights movement Causa Justa's (Just Cause) example of aligning abortion rights and human rights. In the Colombian ...
- Created on 06 July 2022
- 13. Mental Health Awareness Month: 14 Celebrities That Are Vocal About Their Mental Health Struggles
- (Living)
- ... that a tough, robust and muscular guy like him could not get sexually abused. Subsequently, the actor filed a civil case against Venit and his company WME, which resulted in him resigning from the company ...
- Created on 24 May 2022
- 14. Carnations, Meat Hash, and ”Watching Your Mother’s Face”: 9 Mother’s Day Celebrations From Around the World
- (Feminism)
- ... of their love, sacrifice and influence in our lives. Mother’s Day in the United States began with a woman named Anna Jarvis, who admired her mother for attending to the wounded in the American Civil ...
- Created on 06 May 2022
- 15. Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
- (Movies)
- ... were flung wide open. We can also draw parallels to the world's present-day civil unrest during the pandemic when the film was shot and where people defied all warnings and threats to their lives to come ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 16. Covered In Wrinkles and Unapologetically Old, Baba Yaga Is The Bad-Ass Slavic Witch You Need To Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... far away from civilization. If you hike toward this light, you’ll see that it emanates from a little cabin, but not an ordinary one. This little one-room wooden hut is perched high atop a pair of giant ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 17. What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
- (Feminism)
- ... the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed voting discrimination by race, and allowed black people (including black women) to vote. I would read about Amelia Earhart and wonder who the first black woman ...
- Created on 30 March 2022
- 18. HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
- (Feminism)
- ... women or not. Some see it as a definite positive. Equal Means Equal writes, “In the nearly 50 years since women won hard-fought abortion rights in Roe [v. Wade], and educational Civil Rights in Title IX, ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
- 19. Watch Now: Big Freedia & Jonathan Lykes's 'ELLA BAKER SHAKER' Is Exactly The Inspiring Energy We Need This Black History Mon
- (Entertainment)
- ... The song, a tribute to 1960’s civil rights activist Ella Baker, is not only a catchy, upbeat tune— it also raises awareness and prompts the listener to learn more about the song's focus. The video goes ...
- Created on 23 February 2022
- 20. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... to help over seventy more people escape slavery. The movie follows her through her life, from when she first escapes to the Civil War when Tubman joined the Union army. Harriet tells the full story of ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
