- 1. Issa Rae Proves She’s No One-Trick Pony With New Show "Rap Sh!t," Loosely Inspired By City Girls ...
- (TV)
- Shawna and Mia Shawna (Aida Osman) and Mia (KaMillion) are former high school friends from Miami who have recently reconnected. Shawna has bars, evidenced by minor early success, but hasn’t quite found ...
- Created on 25 July 2022
- 2. The Risks Of Liking Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License": Are You Anti-Feminist for Listening to "Sou
- (Music)
- ... sings, "who always made me doubt/she's so much older than me/she's everything I'm insecure about." As many Disney or High School Musical fans may know, Rodrigo’s ex-boyfriend was Joshua Bassett, her co-star ...
- Created on 16 March 2022
- 3. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... up your world. Stream it on Netflix, or watch it for free here. Hidden Figures (2016) Inspired by a true story, Hidden Figures highlights Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson: ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 4. Josephine Baker, First Black Superstar of the Silver Screen, Makes Her Criterion Channel Debut In Featured Collection
- (Movies)
- In its latest curated collection, the Criterion Channel highlights the work of the “Queen of Paris” herself, Josephine Baker. The actress, dancer, activist, and French Resistance hero was born in St. ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 5. Musician Cassandra Violet Opens Up About The Social Pressures of the "Biological Clock," The Meaning Behind Her New Music Video And Album, And The Everyday Anxieties We All Face: BUST Intervie
- (Music)
- ... reveal the intricate anxieties of life, she is a high school English and theater teacher. Her most popular song “Beyond the Fray” was featured on Ozark and has over 500,000 streams on Spotify. Cassandra ...
- Created on 18 May 2021
- 6. Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... imposter syndrome. “It was tough, that first season in particular. I was surrounded by so many brilliant and experienced comedians and was highly intimidated and found myself wondering on many days, Who ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
- 7. Week of Women: Mulan, Throwing Muses, Sigrid Nunez
- (Entertainment)
- Happy September! It’s shaping up to be a great month for pop culture, and we’re starting strong with the highly anticipated live-action Mulan, a feminist buddy comedy, and a new book by Sigrid Nunez. ...
- Created on 03 September 2020
- 8. Meet Julie d'Aubigny: The French Gender-bending Opera Diva Your History Teacher Didn't Want You To Know Abo
- (Feminism)
- ... Throughout Julie’s many heroic and sometimes pathetic adventures, the crowds adored her—either in spite of or because of her high-profile affairs with women, her brawling and duelling, and her breeches ...
- Created on 29 April 2020
- 9. Issa Rae Talks Fame, Feminism, And “Insecure” Season Four: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 film, Love & Basketball—a romance set in Baldwin Hills—and began writing screenplays while still in high school. Rae says the movie, about two young people whose love ...
- Created on 10 April 2020
- 10. Broadway Star Laura Benanti's #SunshineSongs Deliver A Much-Needed Relief ...
- (Entertainment)
- ... room to breathe. Broadway veteran and Tony Award-winning Laura Benanti took to Twitter last Friday, calling on high school students to share videos of themselves performing songs from their upcoming ...
- Created on 19 March 2020
- 11. Thank You, Rebecca Bunch! 8 Radical Moments "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Got Righ
- (TV)
- ... important decision in season four when she receives job offers from different law firms. According to the conventions of TV, she would give up the higher paying jobs to stay at Darryl’s law firm where ...
- Created on 03 April 2019
- 12. Taraji P. Henson On Committing To Her Relationship, Ignoring Her Age, and "Seeing Her Money
- (Entertainment)
- ... than 14 months after her final appearance on Person of Interest as a regular cast member, Empire premiered, becoming Fox’s highest-rated debut in three years. Before heading to Hollywood, Henson trained ...
- Created on 24 March 2019
- 13. The Breeders, Kembra Pfahler, Neneh Cherry, And More Played The Netherlands' Le Guess Who? Festival 2018
- (Music)
- ... more erratic, climbing around her fret-flying fingerwork. The pace changes, with sinister strings spiralling to a high pitch like a firework being set off into the night’s sky. We are wooed with copious ...
- Created on 27 November 2018
- 14. Juliana Huxtable On Her Genre-Crossing Art, Her "Hibernation" Creative Process, And Instagram Vs. Tumbl
- (Arts)
- ... I think the difference with me is that all the things I do are highly visible." Culture Lab Detroit's "Seeing And Being Seen" panel: moderator Jazmine Hughes; Juliana Huxtable; Ghetto Gastro founder Jon ...
- Created on 06 November 2018
- 15. Amy Poehler Interviewed By Rachel Dratch: From The BUST Archives
- (TV)
- ... high-school football teams played each other every Thanksgiving. We both worked at the same ice-cream parlor, Chadwick’s, at different times. We both had a lead in our sixth-grade productions of Once Upon ...
- Created on 01 August 2018
- 16. Krysten Ritter On The Emotional Toll Of Playing Jessica Jones
- (TV)
- ... at her local mall. It’s an old-fashioned origin story for a star, like getting discovered in a soda shop or being spotted in the high school musical. But it’s a pretty uncommon tale these days. And while ...
- Created on 23 March 2018
- 17. "Dyke Central" Director Florencia Manovil Wants You To Watch More Queer T
- (TV)
- ... high voice turning sour. “That’s a very common thing — the big egos, that you have to serve and tiptoe around.” Her college years proved to Manovil that she wanted to work in film — but nowhere near ...
- Created on 05 March 2018
- 18. 11 Books By Women To Read In January 2018
- (Books)
- ... future where abortion is illegal, four women’s lives slowly collide. There’s Ro, a single high-school teacher in her early 40s trying to have a child. Ro’s student Mattie is a 15-year-old adoptee wondering ...
- Created on 16 January 2018
- 19. Why Are We So Obsessed With Lizzie Borden?
- (Feminism)
- ... the victims and the accused killer were all wealthy. The case showed that high society wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. And Lizzie’s arrest punctured a class-based façade while creating a subtle social ...
- Created on 04 January 2018
- 20. BUST's 10 Best Bets For Winter 201
- (Entertainment)
- ... yourself for big guns and high heels when it premieres January 12. 4. By the Book Podcast Fascinating, feminist-y, and infuriating, By the Book is a podcast in which the brave co-hosts, Jolenta ...
- Created on 04 December 2017
