- 1. 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
- 2. Soleil Moon Frye Talks "The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder" and How Her Documentary, "Kid90" Forced Her To Face Some Hard Truths About Her Past and Prese
- (Entertainment)
- ... relief organization that started after the earthquake in Haiti, is some of the work I’m most proud of. We have our incredible co-founders Sean Penn and Ann Lee, and we've done work across the globe, we ...
- Created on 01 March 2022
- 3. Tori Amos Talks Fairies, Feminism, And Fighting For Her Musical Future On BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
- (Poptarts)
- ... release of her iconic solo debut, Little Earthquakes—a record named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest albums of all time. And she’s spent the almost 30 years since then perpetually experimenting, ...
- Created on 25 December 2021
- 4. Doctors Marian Croak and Patricia Bath Are the First Black Women Inducted into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame, And Yeah, It's About Time
- (Feminism)
- ... by many charities today, first employing it to raise over $130,000 following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and $43 million after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Throughout her career, Croak has registered over ...
- Created on 30 September 2021
- 5. Glennon Doyle Taught Me Not To Listen To Glennon Doyle—Or Anyone
- (Books)
- “You’re a cheetah, did you know that?” someone said to me. “You have to read Untamed by Glennon Doyle.” Released almost a year ago in March 2020, I had seen the vibrant book cover toted around by ...
- Created on 05 March 2021
- 6. How To Make Your Own Go Bag, In Case of Emergency
- (Living)
- ... we became trapped by fire? This situation has become all too real for folks in wildfire zones, not to mention hurricane, earthquake, tornado, and other natural disaster zones. And then, of course, there ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 7. Nadia Owusu's 'Aftershocks' Captures The Earthquake Of A Life Rattled By Loss And Displaceme
- (Books)
- In Nadia Owusu’s memoir Aftershocks, life experiences are like earthquakes. Fault lines break open around the loss of her beloved father, her mother’s abandonment, all the places around the globe she’s ...
- Created on 14 January 2021
- 8. Week Of Women: April 10-16, 2020
- (Entertainment)
- ... tells the story of David Starr Jordan, a man who was determined to discover as many species of fish as he could when an earthquake shook San Francisco, destroying his entire collection—then, he tried to ...
- Created on 09 April 2020
- 9. Murder of Mexican Feminist Sparks Outrage, Reflects Deeper Issue in the Nation
- (Feminism)
- ... calling a feminist earthquake, thousands of women have joined the fight for justice from the hundreds of women who gathered on The Day of The Dead carrying purple crosses with the names of missing a murdered ...
- Created on 03 February 2020
- 10. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon Goes Solo On "No Home Recor
- (Music)
- ... “Paprika Pony” that even brings a trap vibe, or the poetic “Cookie Butter,” in which she sings, “You seek/I hide/I hide.” Other songs like “Earthquake” are incredibly heartfelt, and album closer “Get Yr ...
- Created on 11 October 2019
- 11. Make An Emergency Plan for Your Four-Legged Family Members
- (Living)
- Natural disasters—fires, hurricanes, earthquakes—seem to be coming fast and furious these days. I was living in the British Virgin Islands in 2017, when Hurricanes Irma and Maria steamrolled us, destroying ...
- Created on 17 March 2019
- 12. These Kung Fu-Trained Buddhist Nuns Teach Nepalese Girls Self-Defense
- (Living)
- ... the 2016 bicycle yatra in Kashmir So when a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015, the nuns were ready. Refusing evacuation from the main nunnery outside Kathmandu (several others are scattered throughout ...
- Created on 23 August 2018
- 13. Uranus Is Entering Taurus. Here's What To Expec
- (Living)
- ... years will likely produce several earthquakes in the world, which may cause destruction as the tectonic plates shift beneath us. Recently, cities in China, California, and Pakistan have felt tremors in ...
- Created on 15 May 2018
- 14. In "This Is The Place," Women Write About Home: BUST Revie
- (Books)
- ... a terror target post-9/11 and has the potential to wreak havoc on millions of people if an earthquake were ever to hit the area. That essay precedes Terry Tempest Williams’ “Keeping My Fossil Fuel in the ...
- Created on 11 January 2018
- 15. Week(s) Of Women: December 22, 2017-January 4, 2018
- (Entertainment)
- ... Ulysse Haitian writer Katia Ulysse’s new novel follows a woman who, after her parents are killed in the 2010 earthquake, returns to Haiti for the first time in 25 years, seeking closure. Out now. ...
- Created on 20 December 2017
- 16. How Sex Workers Built America
- (Living)
- ... the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Diamond Jessie Hayman opened her brothel doors to feed, clothe and shelter anyone that needed help. And Diamond Jessie was far from alone! For example, Lou Graham donated ...
- Created on 17 November 2017
- 17. What You Didn't Know About Dias de los Muerto
- (Entertainment)
- ... The Smithsonian describes them as “a whimsical reminder of the cyclicality of life” — and those who are welcoming a child bring toys. Given the horrendous disaster that was the 7.1 earthquake that ...
- Created on 02 November 2017
- 18. Women Are Disproportionately Affected By Natural Disasters, And Here’s Why
- (Feminism)
- A woman removes debris in the aftermath of the 1985 Mexican earthquake The number of women killed by the earthquake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017 is almost double that of men. Of the 198 deaths ...
- Created on 29 September 2017
- 19. How To Help Puerto Rico And Mexico
- (General)
- ... no electricity and really the sanitary conditions were deplorable.” While those in Puerto Rico are in need of aid, Mexico needs relief help too. There have been three major earthquakes in Central Mexico ...
- Created on 27 September 2017
- 20. 3 Brief Books By Big-Time Writers To Read In One Afternoon
- (Books)
- ... lost in Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake – Danticat also seeks comfort in literature by Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Alice Sebold, and more. If you’ve lost someone close to ...
- Created on 12 July 2017
