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Sex And The City's Spinoff Raises the Question: "Where Are All The Other Shows About Middle-Aged Women
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(TV)
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... their 30s and 40s (55%).
If you’re a woman aged 50 or up, you can really kiss screen time goodbye. The Ageless Test study, released last year by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, analyzed ...
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Created on 18 November 2021
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Country Singer Allison Moorer is Back With "I Dream He Talks to Me," A Memoir on Mothering a Child with Non-Verbal Autism ...
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(Books)
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... you are not the only parent in this situation. There are so many gendered parenting roles at play here and it’s something I see a lot of in my own work with families.
AM: Every day that I'm away from ...
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Created on 12 October 2021
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China to "Put an End to Sissy Men" With Ban on Effeminate Men on T
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(Feminism)
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... goes against gender equality.
Unsurprisingly, at the same time that China is forcing a return to traditional gender roles, the Chinese feminist movement is being silenced. In April 2020, Chinese social ...
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Created on 10 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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... over the telephone from her home in Newport Beach, CA. She says exactly what she means and isn’t waiting for a permission slip. After decades of rebelling against ageism and gender norms, today she still ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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The recent Taliban takeover is terrifying for Afghan women and girls—here's wh
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(Feminism)
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... of girls were in school and tens of thousands of young women entered universities. Although gender inequality in education amongst Afghani children has remained an issue with literacy rates amongst adolescent ...
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Created on 18 August 2021
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You Betta Werk! Mj Rodriguez Makes Emmy History, Becomes First Trans-woman Nominated in Leading Actress Category
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(TV)
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... Primetime Emmy Awards. The show also broke records for the number of openly transgender cast members in TV history: five in series regular roles.
Speaking to Variety about the historicness of her nomination, ...
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Created on 13 July 2021
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“My Life is Not Your Porn,” South Korean Women Say, as Digital Sex Crimes Rise
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(Feminism)
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... just a seedy side-effect of technological advancement. Symptoms of deeply engrained gender inequity can be found in many aspects of life in South Korea, including its most successful and public export: ...
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Created on 07 July 2021
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Cultures That Embraced LGBTQIA+ Identity Before Colonization Messed Everything Up
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(Living)
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... via Wikimedia Commons
Hinduism is the posterchild for queer representation when it comes to deities. Hindu literature is full of fluid gender expression, gay sex, and polyamorous relationships. Basically, ...
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Created on 10 June 2021
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6 Iconic LGBTQ+ Comedians To Laugh With This Pride Month
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(Entertainment)
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... to tear into Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people from the military. Harrison, herself a transgender woman, is most well-known for her role in Shrill (2019-21), her Emmy-nominated writing on Big Mouth, ...
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Created on 10 June 2021
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If you like hand lettering, chevron prints, or you're a #girlboss—You just might be "Cheug
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(Style)
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...
A post shared by cheug life (@cheuglife)
Cheugy isn't gendered either. "Guy things" can be cheugy, too. An obsession ...
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Created on 08 June 2021
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Boob Tube: Celebrating Five TV Moms We Love For Mother's Da
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(TV)
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... in The Brady Bunch
Once one is able to see past the smoke and mirrors of sexism and outdated gender roles, any viewer can see the strength in Carol Brady. After her husband left her, she did what was ...
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Created on 07 May 2021
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Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
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(TV)
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... wrestling team (it’s worth a Google image search). “It was technically a co-ed team, they didn’t have any gender restrictions. There was one other girl on the team my freshman year, and then my sophomore ...
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Created on 07 April 2021
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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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(Living)
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... feminist artists used hair from their own heads or those of fellow women to make statements about gender roles, per National Geographic. While Victorian hair art was unambiguously white, hair has long ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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Women, Wheels, and the Sexist Stereotype of the "Backseat Driver
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(Living)
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... the wheel. The term wasn’t strictly gendered at first. A widely printed syndicated newspaper editorial from 1922 described “The Backseat Driver” as a “man or a woman” who “issues a lot of instructions, ...
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Created on 11 March 2021
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Kyra Sedgwick Explains How Her Career In Hollywood Has Always Been Informed By Feminism on BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
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(Poptarts)
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... gender equity in her household with Kevin Bacon, and makes us all want to take a turn in the director’s chair.
Listen to the Kyra Sedgwick episode of BUST's Poptarts Podcast Here:
More About BUST's Poptarts Podcast: ...
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Created on 19 February 2021
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Week Of Women: Rebecca, The Witches, Equal
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(Entertainment)
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... Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
Bestselling author Sarah Smarsh uses Dolly Parton’s music (and life) to explore issues of gender roles, class, and feminism in her thoughtful new book. Out now.
In a Holidaze by ...
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Created on 15 October 2020
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Controversial Medusa Statue Reimagines Her Myth and Reignites Conversations Around #MeToo
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(Arts)
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... I have investigated flipping the script of power and gender roles, and in that moment, Garbati’s unapologetically revisionist Medusa spoke to my interests by reimagining the outcome of the myth of Medusa.” ...
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Created on 14 October 2020
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Aya Cash On Horror, Humor, And Feminism In "Scare Me
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(Movies)
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... comedy and horror to tell stories rich with social and political commentary. Fanny tells inventive spooky stories that comment on gendered oppression like that of a creepy grandpa all while Fred continues ...
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Created on 01 October 2020
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Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
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(Feminism)
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... in the workforce began to wane, and “this decline in labor participation,” say Jialu L. Streeter and Martha Deevy in their Stanford Center on Longevity article “Financial Security and the Gender Gap,” ...
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Created on 29 September 2020
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California To Allow Trans Inmates to Serve Time in Prisons Based on Gender Identity
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(Feminism)
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Saturday allowing transgender inmates to be placed in prisons based on their gender identity. Advocates say prisons are particularly dangerous for anyone ...
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Created on 28 September 2020
