- 1. "Legends of Drag" Pays Homage To Drag Icons "Of A Certain Age" Who Paved The Way For The Queens of Today ...
- (Books)
- ... and service. “Fundraising is really why I started performing,” New Orleans queen Moanalot Fontaine said. “I reached a point in my twenties when I had to get all new friends because all of mine died.” ...
- Created on 21 June 2022
- 2. Mental Health Awareness Month: 14 Celebrities That Are Vocal About Their Mental Health Struggles
- (Living)
- ... people died by committing suicide in the United States, making it the leading causes of mortality in the nation. This indicates that one person takes their own life every 11 minutes on average. Mental ...
- Created on 24 May 2022
- 3. "Petite Maman": A Little Girl, a Witchy House, and Why Grief Needs a Container—BUST Revie
- (Movies)
- ... good fortune of inheriting my mother’s house when she died, but it was in Texas, a place I do not want to live. It was a house for a family, which I did not have. The scant emotional connection to it that ...
- Created on 22 April 2022
- 4. Fiber Artist and Animator Andrea Love Combines Her Passions For Fibers and Stop-Animation, And The Results Will Blow Your Mind
- (Arts)
- ... set for the "Cooking with Wool" series Although she studied film in college, Love is a self-taught animator. As a result, she was willing to do whatever it took to get the experience she needed. “I got ...
- Created on 21 April 2022
- 5. Legendary Comic Book Artist Nina Bunjevac Flexes Her Feminism And Takes A Stand Against Predatory Porn On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
- (Poptarts)
- ... 1990s, she returned to her native Canada where she studied graphic design, drawing, and painting and eventually branched out into making sculptural installations and writing and illustrating absolutely ...
- Created on 17 April 2022
- 6. Annie Murphy On The Importance of Imperfect Female Characters, Life After Alexis, And Her Top-Secret Role On Season 2 of Russian Doll
- (Entertainment)
- ... her thespian aspirations. “They were so encouraging. They weren’t like, ‘I’m sorry, what? Let’s choose a real career.’” With her parents’ blessing she studied theater at Concordia University in Montreal. ...
- Created on 14 April 2022
- 7. Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
- (Movies)
- ... could have embodied the innocence and strength she brought to the title character. We do get to see Alice not only get angry, but get revenge. Once she’s armed with information on who she really is ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 8. Remembering The Late, Great, bell hooks. How Well Do You Know The Feminist Author and Activist?
- (Feminism)
- A literary and academic legend whose work helped influence an entire generation of feminists, bell hooks died on December 15, 2021, at age 69. Think you know what made bell so swell? Then take the quiz! ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 9. Covered In Wrinkles and Unapologetically Old, Baba Yaga Is The Bad-Ass Slavic Witch You Need To Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... might be the Waters of Life and Death, of which Baba Yaga was the guardian. If someone died, a sprinkle of the Water of Life could bring them back to the world of the living. However, if their body had ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 10. Diane di Prima Blesses Us One Last Time With "Spring and Autumn Annals," A Previously Unpublished Memoir and Elegy To A Frien
- (Books)
- ... part of Andy Warhol’s scene in the ’60s, and who died tragically at age 29. Herko’s untimely death opened a door to grief unlike anything di Prima had experienced before. These letters and poems are an ...
- Created on 31 March 2022
- 11. HBO's "Minx" Is a Light-Hearted Comedy About a '70s Erotic Magazine For Wom
- (TV)
- ... Joyce has studied “the greats”: Beauvoir, Wolf, Friedan, Nin—but she doesn’t seem to know how to connect or translate these academic thoughts and ideas to a more accessible tone or viewpoint that women ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 12. 6 Things You Might Not Know About Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... in acting class. Jackson studied government at Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude in 1992 with an A.B. Harvard is also where she met her future husband, and sixth generation Harvard ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 13. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
- (Books)
- ... Abigail the Whale, by Davide Cali & Sonja Bougaeva). The importance of these books cannot be understated, considering that larger-bodied children are more likely to be bullied than their thin peers[1], ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 14. "The Worst Person In The World" Subverts the Classic Rom-Com Genre, Instead, Explores Loss Through a New Len
- (Movies)
- ... asides, Trier was never trying to tell a love story. The Worst Person in the World is a poignant film about grief and loss. It was the first movie I’ve seen since my mom died two years ago that I felt ...
- Created on 22 February 2022
- 15. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... health and begin her recovery journey. Brown, a woman who almost died during her quest for a curvier posterior, lost her limbs. “Ever since I got the injections I don’t party as much. I don’t go out ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 16. Girls Who Love Girls Who Love Music: 11 Songs Celebrating Queer Love to Listen To on Valentine’s Day
- (Music)
- ... who you are]?” but is also a full-bodied reminder for all audiences that women have always been loving other women just as deeply and enthusiastically as men have – as Kiyoko says, it’s “nothing new.” ...
- Created on 11 February 2022
- 17. Galentine's Day Was Ours: Remembering How The Fake Holiday Became Something Special For Me and My Mo
- (Living)
- ... female friendship. Before my mom died in 2019, we celebrated it together every year. The first time we celebrated was after my parents divorced, when I was in eighth grade. My mom and I got in the car ...
- Created on 10 February 2022
- 18. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- ... Ohio. After high school, she studied screenwriting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, which kicked off her long-time residency in New York City. One of her first professional jobs out of college was writing ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 19. 10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
- (TV)
- ... After their friend Daniel died a year prior, the rebellious teens steal, scavenge and save in hopes of leaving their reservation and moving to the “exotic land” of California, a dream Daniel once had. ...
- Created on 19 January 2022
- 20. Farewell to Ronnie Spector, One Of The Original Bad Girls Of Rock & Roll Who Brought Edge and Flavor to 1960s Girl Groups
- (Music)
- The smash pop hit “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes was released in August of 1963, the same year and month as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The streets of America were electric with strife ...
- Created on 18 January 2022
