- 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. Sundance 2023 Dispatch #2- Polite Society, Pow Wow's and Sarah Snoo
- (Movies)
- ... has recently dropped out of art school. When Lena gets involved in an arranged marriage with a handsome wealthy doctor, Ria is outraged. The plot thickens when Ria suspects that Lena’s husband-to-be and ...
- Created on 22 January 2023
- 3. 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
- 4. Stop What You’re Doing and Read 'Shit Cassandra Saw,' A Cauldron of Sci-Fi, Historical fiction, and Modern Wit: BUST Review ...
- (Books)
- A cursed priestess, radioactive cockroach women, and a warrior with her head chopped off, along with many more symbolic and oh-so-real stories of the female race through the ages fill the book, Shit ...
- Created on 26 October 2022
- 5. 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
- 6. "The Fortunes of a Jaded Woman" Tells The Story Of A Cursed Vietnamese Family. Plus, 2 Other Novels That Explore Family and Complicated Relationships
- (Books)
- ... ago, their ancestor Oanh left her marriage for true love, a brave and unconventional decision that her mother-in-law wasn’t going to let her get away with. And so she sought the aid of a fearsome witch ...
- Created on 21 September 2022
- 7. 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
- 8. Beth Ditto Talks Switch To Acting, and Latest Role In The Country Music Drama "Monarch." Plus, New Music From Gossip? ...
- (TV)
- ... of Control,” from Gossip’s 2006 album of the same name, was a pointed response to the George W. Bush-era Federal Marriage Amendment, which would have federally prohibited unions between non-heterosexual ...
- Created on 12 September 2022
- 9. Netflix Movie Purple Hearts Is A Love Story For The Apolitical and Privileged
- (Movies)
- ... fall in love (for real) and she runs to him, confessing her love as he is arrested by the military police for faking their marriage. This might sound cliche, overdone and predictable. It certainly is, ...
- Created on 11 August 2022
- 10. Before Nirvana And Soundgarden, A Young Black Performer Named Tina Bell Was Making Grunge Rock But You Have Probably Never Heard Of Her.
- (Music)
- ... couple’s move to Europe was a decision that turned out to be an unfortunate mistake, and it changed their futures in numerous ways. For one thing, it resulted in the dissolution of their marriage. “They ...
- Created on 10 August 2022
- 11. The violence of money in marriage: after 2 years, I finally recognized and then escaped financial abuse inflicted by my husband
- (Living)
- ... But my objections fell on deaf ears. The rest of my short marriage was similarly financially catastrophic. I stressed about money all the time, and my stomach always hurt. I prioritized paying rent and ...
- Created on 05 August 2022
- 12. 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
- 13. 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
- 14. 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
- 15. 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
- 16. Annie Murphy On The Importance of Imperfect Female Characters, Life After Alexis, And Her Top-Secret Role On Season 2 of Russian Doll
- (Entertainment)
- ... show, because it was just night and day, but I’m glad I did.” On Kevin, Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a disgruntled New England housewife in a mundane marriage to goofy Kevin, a prototype of every dim-witted ...
- Created on 14 April 2022
- 17. Covered In Wrinkles and Unapologetically Old, Baba Yaga Is The Bad-Ass Slavic Witch You Need To Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... skulls from Baba Yaga’s fence so that she can fulfill her quest. Baba Yaga has no truck with your notions about the sanctity of marriage. Well, yes, she has children but no husband, lover, or significant ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 18. A Little History On How The Blue-Haired Old Lady Trope Came To Be
- (Feminism)
- ... be it miniskirts or gay marriage. Given that these are not the people one would associate with crazy-colored hair, what’s behind this ageist, sexist slur? Blue hair has been around longer than you might ...
- Created on 05 April 2022
- 19. Trevor Noah Made An Important Point About The Kim-Kanye-Pete Davidson Situation—And Got Kanye Banned from Instagram
- (TV)
- ... late last year that their relationship was on the rocks, citing a “big fight” between them in December. After seven years of marriage, Kim split with Kanye in January of 2021 and officially divorced him ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 20. "The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
- (Books)
- ... a more hopeful, sex-positive stance, centered around truth and healing. The book features stories of women like Nura, a Muslim woman from Kenya struggling to adjust to her polygamous marriage; Amina, ...
- Created on 11 March 2022
