- 1. This Black, UK-Based Model And Award-Winning Asexual Activist Is Changing The Face of Asexuality
- (Sex)
- ... because that’s how I dress,” she says of the origins of her modeling career at age 16. “Lots of alternative fashion skews toward that lingerie-ish area.” Once she started booking gigs, she noticed that ...
- Created on 10 October 2022
- 2. In this Security Job, Sexism and The Patriarchy Are Actually Helping Women Excel
- (Feminism)
- ... and computer science at the University of Cape Town. Upon returning to the U.S., she worked various gigs including one at a title property company that taught her the hacker-friendly skill of detailed ...
- Created on 30 June 2022
- 3. From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
- (Entertainment)
- ... in Hill’s mind, one didn’t exist without the other. He started headlining his own shows and hosting parties, and finally, the grind paid off. By the mid-aughts, he was landing gigs at Joe’s Pub and touring ...
- Created on 16 June 2022
- 4. Annie Murphy On The Importance of Imperfect Female Characters, Life After Alexis, And Her Top-Secret Role On Season 2 of Russian Doll
- (Entertainment)
- ... worked at a physiotherapist’s office for a while. I did a hodgepodge of things.” After two years without booking any gigs, the aspiring actor was down to her last few hundred bucks when the apartment building ...
- Created on 14 April 2022
- 5. Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
- (Entertainment)
- ... out in September. Concurrent with those literary successes—which landed her on The New York Times Bestsellers List—Robinson also got her foot in Hollywood’s door with acting gigs in the films Ibiza (2018) ...
- Created on 08 February 2022
- 6. Three Slow Burn Novels For the Fall: A Fictional Account of 12 Century Poet Marie de France, a murder-mystery, and Happy Hour, a Debut Novel about 2 Young Women Navigating a Hot NYC Summer
- (Books)
- ... and cobble together gigs, hustling to earn enough for rent and cab fare. Granados manages to capture an airy and effortless tone and her prose sparkles with dry wit on every page. However, the story ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 7. Comedian Skye Townsend Discusses Her Big Break Starring In Season 2 Of "A Black Lady Sketch Show" And More: BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... events, and booking smaller acting gigs, have clearly prepared her to become the emerging star that she is today. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Skye about her experience filming the show, ...
- Created on 27 May 2021
- 8. In "Hysterical," Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho, and Others Discuss the Contradictions of Being a Woman in Comed
- (Movies)
- ... male comics have to think too much about while traveling for work, performing late-night gigs in dingy basement clubs, or staying in seedy motels in close quarters with men who are, in some cases, unhealthily ...
- Created on 17 March 2021
- 9. Mexican-American Sister Trio Tiarra Girls Talk New Cover Single "Can't Stop The World," Heritage, The Pandemic, and Proudest Moments: BUST Intervi
- (Music)
- ... have created their own brand of music, taking inspiration from Latin, pop, rock, blues, dance, mariachi — you name it. With gigs including the sought-out SXSW musical festival and Trans-Peco Festival, ...
- Created on 22 September 2020
- 10. Health Is Wealth: Black Plant Based Chefs Bring Community Healing Through Afro-Vegan Food
- (Eat Me)
- ... My name is Keiera LaVon, my business is KeiToHealth. I am originally from south central LA. I run a plant based vegan food business which consists of meal prepping, pop ups, events, private chef gigs, ...
- Created on 28 August 2020
- 11. Twitter Phenom Jaboukie Young-White Talks DMs, Comedy, and Millennials: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... Jimmy Fallon, nabbed writing gigs on Netflix’s American Vandal and Big Mouth, was a voice actor in Ralph Breaks the Internet, had his own special on Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, and most notably, ...
- Created on 21 July 2020
- 12. Big Freedia Opens Up About Beyoncé, Bounce, Being Black in New Orleans, and Her Boo: BUST Interview
- (Music)
- ... queen of New Orleans, making ends meet was still an issue. “I was booking my own gigs, giving these people prices, and I wasn’t making no money,” she says. “I’d get two, three, four hundred dollars, maybe ...
- Created on 23 June 2020
- 13. 20 Years Later: Reflections From A Photographer Who Shot The Strokes, Sonic Youth, And More
- (Music)
- ... of gigs). I also arranged for a location at Cafe Noir where we could move and keep shooting into the night. It was really the right decision but when I went to the sound check that Wednesday to meet the ...
- Created on 21 May 2020
- 14. This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard O
- (Arts)
- ... gigs, began appearing all over Europe. They showed up as architectural carvings, posed over doors and entryways. They were meant to be ugly—as ugly as the gargoyles and other so-called grotesques that ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 15. Manny Jacinto On Feminism, Representation, And The End Of "The Good Place": BUST Intervie
- (TV)
- ... he move back to the Philippines to book gigs. “He didn’t see any Asian actors on TV or in movies in North America,” says Jacinto. “I told him to give me five years.” Suit: Paisley and Gray; T-shirt: ...
- Created on 03 October 2019
- 16. Project Runway's Elaine Welteroth Spills On Trailblazing Past, Being "More Than Enough," And Leaving The Door Open Behind H
- (Feminism)
- ... at PR firm Ogilvy & Mather and at Ebony magazine after college before working her way into paid gigs as a beauty editor at Ebony, Glamour, and Teen Vogue. And once she had control at Teen Vogue, her influence ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 17. DJ Collectives That Center Women, Queer, and Nonbinary Folk Are Scratching Out Gatekeepers
- (Music)
- ... a palpable atmosphere at their gigs. It’s a refreshing departure from seeing smug overhyped white dudes behind the decks. And, of course, it’s more than that. Working Women confronts deep-seated misogyny ...
- Created on 29 July 2019
- 18. Lunachicks Recall Fighting Sexism with Sisterhood
- (Music)
- ... things. That was the extent of our agenda. We had no idea what we were in for. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth caught one of our earliest gigs and wanted to produce us. We didn’t know who ...
- Created on 25 April 2019
- 19. Recording Artist Steph Durwin Combines Music and Activism To Foster A New Generation Of Trans/Non-Binary Musicians
- (Music)
- ... many gigs you have or how many people listened to your song. This will give you longevity. The music industry is not for the faint-hearted. Find a community, if not in person, then online, and support ...
- Created on 04 April 2019
- 20. Death Doulas Guide People Through The End Of Life
- (Living)
- I pause at my client’s door to take a deep breath and center myself. This threshold represents more than just personal space in a nursing facility—it is also a threshold between the living and the dying. ...
- Created on 05 February 2019
