- 1. 10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
- (Books)
- ... of a culture that hates fat people and uses institutions, including media, medicine, and marriage, to reinforce that repulsion,” she writes. In the following 13-essay collection, Dionne lays out a compelling ...
- Created on 24 January 2023
- 2. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... in this biopic of her life. Played by Salma Hayek, Frida (2002) brings the viewer on a dreamy journey through the artist’s scandalous love affairs with women and men outside of her marriage, controversial ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 3. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... Over the course of two decades, the Supreme Court overturned anti-gay sodomy laws, and in 2015, gay marriage was recognized as a Constitutional right across the US. For my generation, coming out may cost ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 4. 14 Inspiring Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life, On Their Own Terms
- (Sex)
- ... true self. Although we live in a very open, and mostly accepting society nowadays, for people in the LGBTQIA+ community, that wasn’t always the case. Same-sex marriage was only legalized in the United ...
- Created on 14 September 2022
- 5. Meet The Badass Flight Attendants of the 1960s Who Stood Up To Corporate Giants and Won
- (Books)
- Imagine finally securing your dream career, only to find out that, in this field, marriage, weight gain and aging are firable offenses. This was the reality of a flight attendant’s workplace in the ...
- Created on 21 July 2022
- 6. Your Abusive Boyfriend Just Lost His Right To Legally Buy A Gun. Or Did He?
- (Feminism)
- ... by intimate partners occur in the context of a dating relationship as opposed to a marriage or coparenting dynamic. As a result, states that took steps to restrict gun ownership for abusive dating partners ...
- Created on 15 July 2022
- 7. 3 New Feminist Titles That Examine Women's Place In Civilization And Society: BUST Review
- (Books)
- ... focused on labor issues. The women of Heterodoxy pursued freedom for women on many fronts, including birth control, maternity leave, and maintaining independence in marriage. Scutts has created a narrative ...
- Created on 11 July 2022
- 8. Here's What You Need to Know About the Mississippi Case That Overturned Roe v. Wad
- (Feminism)
- ... cases like Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized gay marriage as a right) and Griswold v. Connecticut (which recognized birth control as a right), for example, which are controversial but essential civil ...
- Created on 02 June 2022
- 9. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... couple, Richard and Mildred, two Virginia residents who get married over state lines in 1958. Interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia at the time, and the two were subsequently arrested late one night. ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 10. Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
- (Feminism)
- If the thought of child marriage conjures clichés of religious extremists in far-away lands, think again. Girls from every race, religion, and social class are being married off to adult men—right here ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 11. The recent Taliban takeover is terrifying for Afghan women and girls—here's wh
- (Feminism)
- ... Against Women (EVAW). The law made 22 abusive acts criminal including rape, battery, forced marriage, preventing women from acquiring property, prohibiting women and girls from going to work and school, ...
- Created on 18 August 2021
- 12. Cultures That Embraced LGBTQIA+ Identity Before Colonization Messed Everything Up
- (Living)
- ... Photo: screenshot via YouTube In Nigeria, the Igbo ethnic group has historically been known to practice and support female marriages where “female husbands'' would offer dowries and marry women. In ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 13. For Centuries, Some Asian Women Have Chosen to Live Communally, Preferring to Take Care Of Each Other Rather Than Rely On Men
- (Living)
- ... a vegetarian hall in Singapore “Men are bad. Why marry?” “Marriage is no good, men cannot be trusted.” “My husband is dead, and I cannot burden friends and relatives with the trouble and expense ...
- Created on 17 May 2021
- 14. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... talking about is the result of an unplanned pregnancy. This was a warning to women about the emotional toll a pregnancy would take on their marriage, and Lysol was sure to place the burden of birth control ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 15. Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... have the whole range of politics. When we started, we didn't want people in the military. We wanted to stop wars. We didn't want marriage equality, we wanted all relationships, to be recognized, and have ...
- Created on 12 March 2021
- 16. Jane Fonda: A Rebel With a Cause. Exclusive BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- ... The film is a feminist classic, but, Fonda tells me, it wasn’t until the ’90s, during her third (and final) marriage to media mogul Ted Turner, that she truly came to understand feminism. Again, a book ...
- Created on 07 January 2021
- 17. Petra De Sutter Is The Highest Ranking Transgender Government Official in Europe
- (Living)
- ... same-sex marriage has been legal since 2003. It was the second nation to extend full legal recognition to same-sex couples following the Netherlands.” De Sutter is not the first elected transgender official ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 18. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- ... her catholic belief that marriage is between a man and a woman, Barrett's beliefs endanger the entire LGBTQ community at large. She has claimed Title IV protections do not extend to Transgendered Americans, ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 19. UK Government Has Halted Progression For Trans Rights on Gender Recognition Act Reform
- (Feminism)
- ... it is used for things like marriage licenses and burial rights. But it goes further than that; it can be vital for those who are traveling, and for university and job applications. At present, the GRA ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 20. Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
- (Feminism)
- ... allowed to take charge of their husbands’ businesses. With their newfound economic independence, many post-plague women began to postpone marriage until they were older, with some choosing not to marry ...
- Created on 29 September 2020
