- 1. "ACNE: A Memoir" explores the awkward teenage years and 2 other books about finding yoursel
- (Books)
- ACNE: A Memoir By Laura Chinn (Hachette Books) Let’s say you were to pick up a copy of a book that had a very straightforward title, something that made you think of your own goofy teen years. ...
- Created on 17 October 2022
- 2. Read Behind-the-Scenes Accounts Of Several Female Musicians' Lives In the Industry in This Woman's Work: Essays on Music ...
- (Music)
- ... and more. The unifying theme encompasses a broad range of the female experience of music, including Jenn Pelly on Lucinda Williams (“The Highway”), Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson (“Fan Girl”), Fatima ...
- Created on 23 August 2022
- 3. Darlene Love and Joan Osborne to perform at “We Got the Beat – A Women in Music Summit”: an Empowering Celebration of Women Artists, and a Call to Arms to Challenge the Rampant Misogyny in the Music I
- (Music)
- ... at the legendary (and female-owned) Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY at the end of the month (March 25th-27th). This immersive weekend will unite creatives and music lovers alike to commemorate the ...
- Created on 02 March 2022
- 4. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- While everyone else was slowed down by COVID, comedian, bestselling author, producer, and actor Phoebe Robinson was busy taking over the world. Between her HBO Max special, her production company, and ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 5. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... to be the first female Asian-American bookstore owner in New York City. The shop is filled with books that are carefully curated for "you and me", with mainly immigrant stories and stories with people of ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 6. Feeling Spiritual? Get Self-Reflective With These 13 Tarot and Oracle Decks Designed By Women
- (Living)
- ... more modern spin on traditional tarot, the Modern Witch Tarot Deck gives a youthful, fresh take on spiritual guidance. While featuring an all-female deck, these tarot cards offer fashion-forward, vibrantly ...
- Created on 15 October 2021
- 7. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
- (Living)
- ... Many of the science fiction books Butler read were predominantly written by white male authors, with very few non-white, female characters. Even now, the genre still lacks diversity and representation. ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 8. Don't Forget Your Story: Why Kink Will Always Belong in Prid
- (Living)
- ... motorcycles barreled towards us, I shoved myself forward, pressing my body onto the edge of the parade gate to get a better look. At first, I was simply taken aback by seeing solely female and non-binary ...
- Created on 03 June 2021
- 9. Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Kicks Off Writers' Fellowship for Underrepresented, Unpublished Women
- (Books)
- ... towards female authors and women at the center of novels, so I started optioning some of them and turning them into movies. Then, I just started sharing all the books that I read, ’cause I read a lot.” ...
- Created on 03 May 2021
- 10. Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
- (Living)
- ... female characters are weed smokers, it’s causal, part of the “I’m wild and crazy and I don’t want to settle down!” narrative. It’s portrayed as a quirky piece of their personality, but not central to their ...
- Created on 18 December 2020
- 11. Cults Going Corporate: Why The NXIVM Story Feels So Familiar
- (TV)
- ... was an “executive success program” that enslaved its members and inflicted sexual abuse, including branding, on its female devotees. It was rampantly sexist, underhanded, and cruel. And still, intelligent, ...
- Created on 10 December 2020
- 12. How Women And YA Are Changing The World Of Comics
- (Books)
- ... schedule to grow all DC imprints. One imprint that has been incredibly successful in attracting female readership and providing more writing jobs to women in graphic novels is DC’s imprint geared towards ...
- Created on 12 November 2020
- 13. The Women's Prize Excludes Akwaeke Emezi With Transphobic Requirement
- (Books)
- ... Twitter regarding their eligibility requirements, saying “In our terms and conditions, the word ‘woman’ equates to a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex.” ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 14. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- ... accused of sexually assaulting a female student to sue for alleged violations of the 14th Amendment and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972." A definition of what the 14th Amendment protects ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 15. The Feminist Guide to Sex Education You Didn’t Get in School
- (Sex)
- ... assigned female at birth. It also reminded me that people still have a lot to learn when it comes to vulvas and their fluids. People forget that lube exists and you don’t have to be 'old' to use it, ...
- Created on 24 September 2020
- 16. Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg On "Unpregnant" And Abortion Access In America: BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- HBO Max’s Unpregnant isn’t a typical buddy comedy; it’s not your average film about an abortion, either. When college-bound Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) discovers she’s pregnant, it’s a no brainer: ...
- Created on 15 September 2020
- 17. Florence Howe, "Mother of Women Studies" and Founder of The Feminist Press Dies at 9
- (Feminism)
- ... “A decade ago, it had no name,” Howe wrote in The New York Times. “A few academics around the country labeled a segment of their freshman composition courses ‘growing up female’ or taught part of a sociology ...
- Created on 14 September 2020
- 18. The “Reclaim Her Name” Project is Republishing 25 Books You Didn’t Know Were Written by Women
- (Books)
- ... up with @BaileysOfficial on something very special. Introducing the #ReclaimHerName collection, 25 books previously published under male pen names, with the real, female authors' names finally printed ...
- Created on 13 August 2020
- 19. Roxane Gay Opens Up About Her Writing Routine: BUST Interview
- (Books)
- In our Writing Life series, we talk to your favorite writers about their routines and careers. Here, we caught up with Roxane Gay, who wrote An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, World of Wakanda, Difficult ...
- Created on 13 August 2020
- 20. Russia Moves To Officially Ban Gay Marriage
- (Feminism)
- Russian lawmakers have submitted legislation to ban same-sex marriage. The ban comes two weeks after voters approved a set of constitutional amendments that would define marriage strictly as a “union ...
- Created on 17 July 2020
