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In the Early 1900's Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Lives and Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
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(General)
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... the dead to commune with the living, and also giving priests a special opportunity to foretell the future. Thus, the very earliest Halloween celebrations involved bonfires, dressing in costumes to frighten ...
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Created on 21 October 2021
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“With her eyes still open, she touched herself for a minute and a half, came noiselessly”: Sally Rooney Depicts Female Sexuality, Bi-sexuality, Intellectual Women, and Mental Illness in New Book “Beautiful ...
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(Books)
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... she makes herself angry. Meanwhile, Rooney also makes a return to the topic of depression in men through the character of Simon who’s told that living with him “is like living with depression.”
Thus, ...
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Created on 20 October 2021
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In Her Memoir "The Big Hurt," Erika Schickel Looks At Her Self-Imposed Bad Girl Image Through A New Len
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(Books)
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... decades later when she is living in Los Angeles, unhappily married and a mother of two girls. Schickel offers an honest look at herself during this time, trying and failing and trying again to justify ...
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Created on 18 October 2021
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Feeling Spiritual? Get Self-Reflective With These 13 Tarot and Oracle Decks Designed By Women
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(Living)
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Whether you're new to tarot, or simply want to add to your deck collection, it's always great to tap into that divine feminine energy by using a deck created by women. We gathered together 13 of our ...
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Created on 15 October 2021
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Lego Says Buh-Bye to Gendered Playtime With New Gender-Neutral Toys and "Ready For Girls" Campaign ...
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(Feminism)
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Lego announced earlier this week that it will remove gender bias from its toys, paving the way for more equal play.
This decision comes in light of new research commissioned by the LEGO Group which ...
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Created on 14 October 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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I had been living in New York City for six months and working at school for students with Autism and related disorders when I heard about Allison Moorer. More accurately, I heard her twangy Alabama ...
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Created on 12 October 2021
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The New "Karen" Halloween Costume Has Many Questioning The Meme-ifying Of Everyday Racis
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(General)
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There’s a new Halloween character in town, and yes, she would like to speak to the manager. Spirit Halloween’s recently released “Karen” wig is a bobbed blonde updo reminiscent of helicopter moms everywhere. ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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National Women's Soccer League Fires Coach After Sexual Abuse Allegations, Prompting Questions of Power Structures and Safety in Women's Spor
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(Feminism)
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The National Women’s Soccer League team North Carolina Courage fired its head coach, Paul Riley, on Thursday in light of sexual abuse allegations made by several of Riley’s former players. Riley is ...
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Created on 04 October 2021
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Sowing the Seeds of Love: Sprouting Seeds at Home is as Easy as 1-2-3
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(DIY)
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Turn your kitchen into a living room by growing your own sprouts
What you need:
Seeds for sprouting (try sproutpeople.org, where a pound can run $6 to $30, depending on the type, or get smaller ...
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Created on 04 October 2021
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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
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(Feminism)
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The National Inventors Hall of Fame in Alexandria, VA honors over 600 of America’s greatest inventors and engineers, living and deceased, who have patented an influential technology. Since its founding ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Karen Dalton Documentary—Behind the Scenes With "In My Own Time" Co-Directors: BUST Intervie
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(Movies)
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RP: If Karen was a musician now and had access to the internet and could just record in her living room, [she would have had] the ability to get herself out there, without physically putting herself ...
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Created on 29 September 2021
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Amy Schumer Shares Her Battle With Endometriosis, And Has Us Wondering Why The F*ck There Isn't More Research About This Disorde
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(Feminism)
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Amy Schumer is a survivor. The 40-year-old comedian and Trainwreck star shared in an Instagram post on Sunday that she had her uterus and appendix removed earlier this month to combat endometriosis. ...
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Created on 27 September 2021
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Growing Up MLM: LuLaRich, The Sticky Ideology Of MLMs, and Reflections on Being the Child of a Mary Kay Recruit
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(Living)
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... up. I have a distinct memory of sitting in an apartment living room with a recruit’s daughter—we were both about ten—and drumming beats on VHS boxes to pass the time as my mom used her Rosetta Stone Portuguese ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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Research shows COVID-19 Vaccinations may affect periods in the short-term, but do not impact fertility
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(Sex)
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Earlier this year, BUST investigated claims that the COVID-19 vaccine may be having an impact on people’s menstrual cycles. Today, more research has been carried out regarding COVID vaccines and menstruation. ...
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Created on 17 September 2021
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Instagram Is Destroying Teen Girls' Mental Health, and Facebook's Been Real Quiet About I
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(General)
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A Wall Street Journal article published on Tuesday revealed that for the past three years Facebook has conducted research on the ways in which Instagram (owned by Facebook since 2012) impacts the mental ...
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Created on 16 September 2021
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Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
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(Feminism)
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... more in her diary entries than she ever did with a living, breathing person. “I have all of my journals going back to about 14 years old—I can’t throw away my feelings. I could not have gotten through ...
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Created on 14 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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their youths, further glorifying and commodifying them, Van Doren would not, outliving the combined ages of both Monroe and Mansfield decades ago. Her survival has spared her legacy the tacky adorations ...
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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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... a nest for a living and spends all the time building it, but then suddenly and helplessly watches others destroy it,” Kakar, the 26-year-old women’s rights activist, told the AP, “Today again, I feel that ...
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Created on 18 August 2021
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"It Does Revenge In A Small Way": Violet Kupersmith On Ghosts, Trauma, And Her New Novel, "Build Your House Around My Bod
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(Books)
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... so well.
Winnie is a young American woman, aimless and living abroad, when she suddenly disappears without a trace in Vietnam. As the reader uncovers what’s happened to Winnie, they’re taken on a whirlwind, ...
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Created on 09 August 2021
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"Concrete Utopia," the New Exhibition from Photographer Saneun Hwang, Captures the Fleeting Nature of NYC: BUST Interview ...
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(Arts)
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... for your work?
After living in New York for a few years, art naturally became a part of my daily life. I love seeing art in museums and galleries but I also find joy in going to local bookstores, too, ...
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Created on 22 July 2021
