- 1. These 3 New Non-Fiction Titles Explore Women's Relationship to Money, The Personal Narrative, and Feminism in Myanma
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- BODY WORK: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative By Melissa Febos (Catapult) For her latest book, acclaimed memoirist Melissa Febos offers a master class for would-be writers looking to find ...
- Created on 26 April 2022
- 2. Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
- (Feminism)
- ... was an activist, a lawyer, a legal thinker, who influenced Thurgood Marshall and RBG, a memoirist, a poet, and had a role in so many aspects of American life, yet we never heard of Pauli Murray before ...
- Created on 13 September 2021
- 3. Nina Renata Aron Wants You To Know That It Gets Better: BUST Interview
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- A lot has been written on the subject of addiction, but Nina Renata Aron’s unflinching memoir, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, tells a story often overlooked—the story of what it’s like to be ...
- Created on 25 February 2021
- 4. What New Generations Can Learn From Elizabeth Wurtzel's Legac
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- ... 2018 essay for The Cut, she was “a hashtag before there was Twitter.” Prozac Nation was a memoir that paved the way for a lot of other female essayists and memoirists. We now have countless personal ...
- Created on 07 January 2020
- 5. 11 Books By Women To Read Right Now
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- ... Celebrated memoirist and rock icon Patti Smith has always been generous with her creative influences—providing fans with a rigorous breadcrumb trail that leads from Blake to Brontë to Baudelaire to Burroughs ...
- Created on 10 January 2019
- 6. Week Of Women: June 29-July 5, 2018
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- ... An Excellent Choice by Emma Brockes Journalist and memoirist Emma Brockes (She Left Me The Gun) chronicles her decision to have a child at age 37 while in the early stages of a new relationship ...
- Created on 28 June 2018
- 7. Jemima And Lola Kirke Are The Best Part Of “Untogether”
- (Movies)
- ... father’s recent death in different ways—instead of doing drugs, Andrea chases a different kind of high by hooking up with an ultra-successful doctor-turned-memoirist, Nick (Jamie Dornan, who also keeps ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 8. How Much Do You Know About Joan Didion?
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- Our April/May 2018 Pop Quiz by BUST editor Emily Rems is all about Joan Didion. Journalist, essayist, novelist, memoirist, playwright, and screenwriter Joan Didion is a literary giant famous for ...
- Created on 26 April 2018
- 9. Learn Everything From Zine-Making To BDSM For Beginners At The BUST School for Creative Living
- (General)
- ... memoirist and New York Times contributor Lindy West, #ShoutYourAbortion Founding Director Amelia Bonow, and artist Poppy Liu will discuss Storytelling as Activism, and the power of sharing our individual ...
- Created on 04 December 2017
- 10. Myriam Gurba's "Mean" Explores Growing Up A Queer "Molack" In California: BUST Interv
- (Books)
- ... adolescence, and early adult life. By analyzing her own memory, Gurba forces the reader to do the same. She describes the book as a "novel that is memoiristic," meaning not exactly a memoir, but not exactly ...
- Created on 01 November 2017
- 11. Femvertising Jumps The Shark With Horrible “Eyepowerment” Ad
- (Feminism)
- ... the Atlantic ocean. Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space. Lucille Ball and Tig Notaro, legendary comedians. Maya Angelou, the poet, memoirist, civil rights activist. What do all these ladies have ...
- Created on 17 March 2017
- 12. Personal Transformation Begets Social Revolution: An Interview With Memoirist Kassi Underwood
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- Writer Kassi Underwood’s debut memoir May Cause Love: An Unexpected Journey of Enlightenment After Abortion follows her on a road trip across the United States as she takes part in healing ceremonies ...
- Created on 23 February 2017
- 13. Summer 2021
- (Magazine)
- ... False Positive she started to Holler. Books: Reviews; plus, marvelous memoirists Danielle Henderson and Ashley C. Ford! SEX FILES A TV intimacy coordinator tells all; and more. Answers from ...
- Created on 01 February 2017
- 14. ‘Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life’: The Good, The Bad, And The WTF
- (TV)
- ... not to is invasive; as memoirist Nadja Spiegelman says, "having a writer in the family is like having a murderer in the family." This is especially true if you're writing a book about your mom simply because ...
- Created on 28 November 2016
- 15. When I Found Out My Ex Is Trans, It Changed Me Too
- (Living)
- ... her personal experience. To read about a trans person’s experiences from the trans person's perspective, we’d like to point you to our cover story with Laverne Cox, our Q&A feature with memoirist Chris ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 16. 'A Sky The Color Of Chaos' Tells The Story Of A Haitian Childhood: BUST Intervie
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- ... Yuknavitch’s lived experience, which moves, but not strictly forward. Many memoirists successfully use braided storylines, fragmenting the narrative into separate strands that repeat and continue. In ...
- Created on 20 January 2016
- 17. The Military Will Lift Its Transgender Ban
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- No one should be excluded from a job based on their identity or their sexuality – especially when that job is protecting the country. This week, The U.S. Military will announce their plans to no longer ...
- Created on 14 July 2015
- 18. Guess Which Award-Winning Activist, Feminist, And Writer Is Getting Her Own Postage Stamp?
- (General)
- ... of advocacy and through her many contributions to the written and spoken word,” said Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan. “Her wide-ranging achievements as a playwright, poet, memoirist, educator, and ...
- Created on 25 February 2015
- 19. 10 Books That Made Our Dregs Of Winter Reading List
- (Books)
- ... faithful literary following as a founding member of the spoken word collective Sister Spit, and as a memoirist who tackled her unique life experiences with candor. Her work has always provided an insider’s ...
- Created on 17 February 2015
- 20. Congratulations, Alison Bechdel!
- (Feminism)
- We are super psyched for one of our favorite feminist-graphic-artist-memoirists, Alison Bechdel, who, we just found out, is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. That means that Bechdel now has $625,000 to use for ...
- Created on 18 September 2014
