- 1. Lizzo Plays a 200-Year-Old Flute...And Racists Freak Out
- (Music)
- ... i.e. the twerking, holds more importance than just a talented flautist playing a few notes. Lizzo is also the first person to ever play the instrument. James Madison was the fourth President of the United ...
- Created on 30 September 2022
- 2. Listen to Beyonce's New Single, "Break My Soul" Featuring Queen of Bounce Music Big Freedia, Off Upcoming Album "Renaissan
- (Music)
- ... her first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Bey has certainly been musically active in the past 6 years but has kept us guessing about when her next solo album will drop. In 2021, the ...
- Created on 16 June 2022
- 3. Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
- (Music)
- At first glance, it might seem like a stretch to compare Jewel to Patti Smith. Jewel Kilcher, after all, is a blonde-haired Alaskan in her 40s, best known by many people for ballads like “Who Will ...
- Created on 02 May 2022
- 4. 10 Great Plus-Size Clothing Brands To Check Out—Including Lizzo's New Shapewear Line, YITTY
- (Style)
- ... Lizzo states on her brand's Instagram post, and she is not backing down from creating a brand that "celebrates, hugs, and loves every single body.” Named “Yitty,” the brand’s first release features three ...
- Created on 29 April 2022
- 5. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... complications from botched plastic surgery. The singer is one of the first celebrities to come forward with her plastic surgery troubles and has publicly chronicled her life-threatening experiences on social ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 6. Zendaya Honored as Youngest Recipient of CFDA Fashion Icon Award
- (Style)
- ... of the Year, and Harlem-born trendsetter Dapper Dan, who made history as the first Black designer to win the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. Let’s take a look at some of the most iconic red ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 7. 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)
- ... Bath, Ph.D., will be amongst the Hall of Fame’s 29 inductees in 2022. Croak and Bath are the first Black women to receive this distinction. Croak, who currently heads Google's Research Center for Responsible ...
- Created on 30 September 2021
- 8. Josephine Baker, First Black Superstar of the Silver Screen, Makes Her Criterion Channel Debut In Featured Collection
- (Movies)
- ... the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. Tropics is included in the collection along with Baker’s first talkie, Zou Zou (1934), a backstage musical surrounding a Black woman (Baker’s) unrequited ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 9. St. Vincent, Tarana Burke, Courtney Stodden, Hailie Sahar, Women Who Get "Happy Endings", and more, in BUST's New Fall 2021 Issue, Out toda
- (Entertainment)
- ... world responded. Now she’s finally sharing the details. By Sabrina Ford Behind the Veil Why is it legal for American men to have sex with underage girls if they marry them first? By Kelly Kathleen ...
- Created on 31 August 2021
- 10. UPDATE: These Lady Motorcyclists Rule New Orleans, and Are Now the Faces of Rihanna's Latest Savage X Fenty Collection ...
- (Feminism)
- ... It’s not the only time the Caramel Curves—New Orleans’ first all-women’s motorcycle club—have been interrupted today, and it won’t be the last. When I met up with the gang a few blocks over, at a Central ...
- Created on 05 August 2021
- 11. “My Life is Not Your Porn,” South Korean Women Say, as Digital Sex Crimes Rise
- (Feminism)
- ... undetectable nature of these offences, Ye-Rin first described how her married boss, whose advances she had previously rebuffed, gave her a small clock as a gift. She put this clock in her bedroom, but ...
- Created on 07 July 2021
- 12. Rollerskating is Back! And Skate Queen Lola Star is Here to Share All Her Tips to Get You Started
- (Living)
- ... but skating didn’t really catch on in the U.S. until 1863 when American inventor James Plimpton patented four wheeled quad skates (two wheels in front and two in back), opened the first roller rink in ...
- Created on 05 May 2021
- 13. Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
- (Feminism)
- ... with Megan’s signature Houston hot-girl style, and made a record-breaking $1.3 million worth of first-day sales. But, it wasn’t long before several accusations of theft were made. ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 14. Social Justice Illustrator Shirien Damra Re-envisions A Better Future Through Art: BUST Interview
- (Arts)
- When 33-year-old artist Shirien Damra first learned about the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was gunned down while jogging in Georgia last year, she, like many of us, was angry and heartbroken. ...
- Created on 13 March 2021
- 15. Michelle Obama Announced As An Inductee Into The National Women's Hall Of Fam
- (Feminism)
- In greater Women’s History Month news, the National Women’s Hall of Fame has recently named former First Lady Michelle Obama as a 2021 inductee. “Advocate, author, lawyer, and 44th First Lady of the ...
- Created on 11 March 2021
- 16. On International Women's Day, Women in Mexico Marched To Protest The Country's Ongoing Crisis of Gender-Based Violen
- (Feminism)
- ... projected messages such as “a rapist will not be governor” across the palace’s front exterior. According to CNN, Mexican governmental data reveals that 987 women and girls were murdered within the first ...
- Created on 10 March 2021
- 17. Meet the Next Generation of Superstar Activists: Exclusive BUST Interviews
- (Feminism)
- ... on the Global Climate Crisis.” This year, the NYU freshman released her first book, Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It. “I was getting so many questions online, like, ‘How do I organize?’ And, ...
- Created on 15 February 2021
- 18. Five Women Who Shaped Motown Soul: Not Just Pretty Faces, but the Heart of Hitsville U.S.A.
- (Music)
- ... the divorce, Wonder made his breakthrough as an artist and Wright recorded her first solo album. Beyond Motown, Wright taught Transcendental Meditation — which is said to have inspired Wonder’s more mystical ...
- Created on 10 February 2021
- 19. Comedian Catherine Cohen Wants You To Feel Less Alone: BUST Interview
- (Arts)
- ... I’m also very kind and fragile. Kindness is all that matters to me, fuck the rest. Do you find that you weren’t taken seriously when you first started in comedy? Is this still an issue that comes up? ...
- Created on 30 November 2020
- 20. Week Of Women: Lady Gaga, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Dakota Johnson
- (Entertainment)
- ... Liberia to the United States during the First Liberian Civil War. Out June 2. Top photo via YouTube / Lady Gaga More from BUST Week Of Women: Carly Rae Jepsen, Issa Rae, and Gia Woods Week Of Women: ...
- Created on 28 May 2020
