- 41. Director Aly Migliori's "After Her" Reshapes The "Lost Girl" St
- (Movies)
- ... him the “other." Historically, missing girls are positioned in both fiction and reality as innocent yet hypersexualized, from JonBenét Ramsey to the white-gowned girls of Picnic at Hanging Rock. But ...
- Created on 08 November 2018
- 42. "The Periodic Table of Feminism" Sheds Light On Feminism's Forgotten Trailblaze
- (Books)
- ... checking out Judy Chicago’s installation "The Dinner Party" (a triangular table with 39 place settings for prominent women—both historical and mythical) at the Brooklyn Museum ASAP. That said, it was difficult ...
- Created on 07 November 2018
- 43. Reconsidering Virginia Clemm Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's "Little Wif
- (Books)
- ... pieces and tweet it without any regard to its historical context. Maybe it’s from "The Pit and the Pendulum"? "The Raven"? This notorious line is actually from a letter he wrote to a fan—a Mr. George Washington ...
- Created on 30 October 2018
- 44. "Training School for Negro Girls" Is An Impressive Debu
- (Books)
- ... a range of class backgrounds. Each one is finding her individual identity in her own way amid the complex historical social and racial strata of the nation’s capital. Acker is a sensitive and skilled ...
- Created on 08 October 2018
- 45. 9 New Books By Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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- ... Hurston the folklorist knew that what makes a historical work salient through time is to stay faithful to the source; to revise or redact would be to lose the gravity of the story. Kossola spent his ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 46. Week Of Women: June 29-July 5, 2018
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- ... of historical fiction about LGBTQ teens. Read our review here. Out now. Top photo: GLOW/Erica Parise/Netflix More from BUST Week Of Women: June 22-28, 2018 Week Of Women: June 15-21, 2018 Week ...
- Created on 28 June 2018
- 47. "All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Throughout The Ages" Is A Must-Read Anthology That Spans Genre, Era, and Identit
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- ... Guide to Vice and Virtue, writing historical fiction was nothing new. “I feel like historical fiction gets pretty heavy, and I wanted my story to be pure comedy," she explained at Porter Square Books' ...
- Created on 26 June 2018
- 48. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Summer
- (Books)
- ... and on crucial historical events, such as the Cambodian killing fields, the AIDS epidemic, and the extended reign of terror that was Jim Crow. Exploring incomprehensible tragedies and incredible triumphs, ...
- Created on 25 June 2018
- 49. I Was Promised Queer “Star Wars” And I Got Queer “Star Wars”
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- ... Hollywood has historically sexualized and exploited black bodies in ways that they haven't with white bodies. He writes that the sexualities of white protagonists are not up for debate in the way that characters ...
- Created on 25 May 2018
- 50. "Dear White People's" Second Season Is Everything: Watch Closel
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- ... the end of the last season, we pick up with AP (Armstrong Parker, the historical Black dorm) being interrogated after a fire engulfed Davis House. If you recall, this is the exact thing that the black ...
- Created on 30 April 2018
