- 21. How New Orleans' "Baby Dolls" Created A Feminist Legac
- (Feminism)
- ... school in third grade to earn money. Occupations open to Black women were limited to sewing, laundering, domestic servitude, factory work, teaching—and prostitution. The Baby Dolls were proud of their ...
- Created on 30 May 2019
- 22. 4 Women Folk Singers You Should Know About
- (Music)
- ... despite her retreat from the industry and limelight. Elizabeth Cotten Born in 1893 in North Carolina, Elizabeth Cotten made a living in domestic work for most of her life. She started playing guitar ...
- Created on 04 March 2019
- 23. Stacey Abrams Offered Us The Hope We Needed Last Night
- (Feminism)
- ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That is who we are, and when we do so, never wavering, the state of our union will always be strong." We just finished watching the #AbramsAddress here in ...
- Created on 06 February 2019
- 24. 4 Black Women Who Changed The World
- (Feminism)
- ... heard at the political table and fighting for the rights of immigrants, access to education, extending the food stamps program, and ensuring benefits extended to domestic workers. Shirley’s background ...
- Created on 04 February 2019
- 25. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
- (Feminism)
- ... Jones’ behavior rubbed up against the era’s rigidly defined gender roles, which decreed women belonged in the domestic sphere, taking care of children, while their husbands went out into the world of business. ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 26. "Grace and Frankie" Star June Diane Raphael Is Done Playing "Nice" Wom
- (TV)
- ... her forthcoming book. “But I’m also lifted and supported by this incredible woman. I have a full-time nanny, and she’s incredibly important to me. I really value domestic workers and their rights, and ...
- Created on 17 January 2019
- 27. 16 Days NYC Is Shifting The Narrative Around Gender-Based Violence
- (Living)
- ... else’s healing should look like. Are there organizations or groups in the NYC community that survivors can turn to for support? To start with, here’s our orgs! Safe Horizon: Domestic violence hotline: ...
- Created on 07 December 2018
- 28. It's Not Laziness, It's Toxic Masculinity: On "Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, And The Way Forwa
- (Books)
- ... 126-year-old short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for example. "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells the story of a woman descending into madness because of the domestic role she was forced into. In the late ...
- Created on 30 November 2018
- 29. She The People Summit Propels Women of Color Into Politics
- (Feminism)
- ... Domestic Workers Alliance. That alliance propelled the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which passed into seven states’ laws, winning the right to overtime for 2 million people—many of whom are women. There' ...
- Created on 16 September 2018
- 30. Celebrate Labor Day With This Brief History of Women In The Labor Movement
- (Feminism)
- ... women of color the most. According to National Women’s Law Center, two-thirds of low wage workers are women, and nearly half of low wage workers are women of color. Domestic work, such as nannying, housekeeping, ...
- Created on 31 August 2018
- 31. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... cut pictuers out of it and make posters that said “Girls can do anything,” and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. And then she ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 32. Remembering the Origins of the Self-Care Movement
- (Feminism)
- ... of just which bath bomb should I use today. Yashna Padamsee of the National Domestic Workers Alliance told the New York Times, “There is a distinction between self-care and treating yourself.” According ...
- Created on 24 July 2018
- 33. The Anxious Women
- (Living)
- ... workplace harassment, sexism, the expectation of a perfect body and domestic responsibilities on a daily basis, what can you do? What can we do to help future generations of women who will most certainly ...
- Created on 12 July 2018
- 34. Here's How To Support The #FamiliesBelongTogether Rally In Tornillo, Texas—The Site Of The First Tent City For Migrant Childre
- (Feminism)
- ... Texas where the first tent city to house migrant children will be erected. Signup at https://www.stopseparation.org/ For additional questions on how to participate, contact kristina@domesticworkers.org. ...
- Created on 21 June 2018
- 35. Why Amy Adams Isn't Focusing On The Gender Pay Gap In Hollywoo
- (Feminism)
- ... with a mission statement pledging to work towards workplace equality for women working in agriculture, housekeepers, janitors, waitresses, factory workers, domestic workers and home health aids, as well ...
- Created on 12 June 2018
- 36. Lynda Carter Says She Was Sexually Harassed While Filming "Wonder Woman": Link Roundu
- (Living)
- ... In The Senate, Because Of Throwing Stars A Kansas bill that would keeps guns out of the hands of people recently convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence — which unanimously passed the House last month ...
- Created on 12 March 2018
- 37. Mass Shootings Are Not A Symptom Of Mental Illness
- (Feminism)
- ... 2018 More from BUST The Parkland School Shooter Had A History Of Domestic Violence, Like Most Mass Shooters Do The Parkland School Shooting Survivors Are Speaking Up And Walking Out Amy Poehler ...
- Created on 26 February 2018
- 38. 9 Moments To Pay Attention To From The 2018 Golden Globes
- (TV)
- ... attended as celebrity women’s plus-ones: #MeToo creator and Girls For Gender Equity founder Tarana Burke, National Domestic Workers Alliance director Ai-jen Poo, workplace justice advocate for restaurant ...
- Created on 08 January 2018
- 39. Hundreds Of Hollywood Women Unite To Fight Sexual Harassment In ALL Industries
- (Feminism)
- ... a building with a predatory supervisor, every waitress grabbed by a customer and expected to take it with a smile, every garment and factory worker forced to trade sexual acts for more shifts, every domestic ...
- Created on 02 January 2018
- 40. "Grandma Sleuth" Made Dollhouses Showing Crime Scenes — And Shaped The Field Of Forensic Investigatio
- (Living)
- ... dollhouses. Frances synthesized real murder cases and her own imagination to create murder scenes in exacting detail. Usually set in a domestic setting, she treated every detail as equally important, putting ...
- Created on 24 October 2017
