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Here's How To Help Texans Right No
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(Living)
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... feedingtexas.org familyplace.org crowdsourcerescue.com North Texas Food Bank redcross.org
Top photo: Gabriella Shery is an illustrator, graphic designer, and comic artist from Brooklyn, New York. You ...
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Created on 19 February 2021
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How You Can Combat Food Insecurity Right Now
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(Living)
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... across the New York metropolitan area. According to Jean Shafiroff, a board member for the New York City Mission Society, food banks are struggling to meet this tremendous demand. “Millions have lost their ...
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Created on 07 February 2021
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How could a woman not know she was autistic until age 31? The answer has everything to do with gender bias.
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(Living)
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... I’m a fairly typical New Yorker: politically progressive, well-traveled, food-obsessed, and a little neurotic. I am single, and admittedly find dating exhausting—but doesn’t everyone?
Then, in mid-February ...
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Created on 25 January 2021
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24.
How To Make Your Own Go Bag, In Case of Emergency
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(Living)
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... positivity like hell... but y’all better be ready to flee.
Art by Gabriella Shery
Gabriella Shery is an illustrator, graphic designer, and comic artist from Brooklyn, New York. You can find her work ...
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Created on 21 January 2021
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25.
Culture Critics Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham Commemorate This Moment in Time With Their New Book Black Futures
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(Books)
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... and collaborator Jenna Wortham—staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and co-host of the podcast Still Processing—have created a stunning new visual anthology, Black Futures, out December 1. The ...
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Created on 01 December 2020
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26.
How To Make Your Own Cannabis Tincture
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(DIY)
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... Looney Tunes. The apocalypse never seemed so chill.
Art by Gabriella Shery
Gabriella Shery is an illustrator, graphic designer, and comic artist from Brooklyn, New York. You can find her work on Instagram ...
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Created on 19 November 2020
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27.
Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... New York, my phone rang. It was Ms. Abrams. I told her we were about to take off, and she quickly said: “Listen to me, before we hang up, I just want to say that everything is going to be OK. You’ll see. ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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28.
5 Ways To Take Care Of Yourself And Your Community This Election Day
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(Living)
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... also be really helpful to have a news-free space where you are able to retreat to every hour to either connect with a friend, do something physical like dance/practice yoga or watch funny TikToks. Ten ...
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Created on 02 November 2020
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29.
A Vulva Owner’s Guide To Peeing Outdoors (And a Few Bonus Tips for Penis Owners, Too)
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(Living)
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... and squat-position balance if you’ll be doing a lot of outdoor urination. Thick thighs save lives, ladies. Sign up now for my weekly newsletter of outdoor pee workouts! (It would sell.)
Consider pubes. We ...
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Created on 30 October 2020
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30.
What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
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(Entertainment)
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... New York Times), and at the time, no one seemed to take issue with its explicit trivialization of an eating disorder.
And even on the handful of occasions that bulimia is taken more seriously, it is ...
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Created on 17 September 2020
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31.
Real Clothes' Experimental Album, "Precaution," Is Perfect For Quarantine Blues and Escapism: BUST Intervie
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(Music)
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... you need to go vegan: you’re listening to Real Clothes’s Precaution.
A Black queer musician based in Brooklyn, New York, Nico Fox, also known as Real Clothes (and a Leo) delivers a hauntingly beautiful ...
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Created on 04 September 2020
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32.
Health Is Wealth: Black Plant Based Chefs Bring Community Healing Through Afro-Vegan Food
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(Eat Me)
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Food is love, food is life. With the pandemic hitting us hard, I can imagine how many sourdough starter kits have been open, attempted, and then discarded in a huff. Or trying out a new baking recipe ...
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Created on 28 August 2020
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33.
The Feminist Guide to Los Angeles, California
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(Living)
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... and towering skyscrapers. There’s old Hollywood glamour and new Cali cool. Taco stands are ubiquitous and famouses roam wild. Writing this during quarantine, I miss it all. So here’s a little love letter ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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34.
The Kardashians And Their False Promises
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(Feminism)
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... our kids, that’s like a huge priority, if someone was faced with the same job opportunities, I think they would maybe consider,” Kim told the New York Times. “You’re going to get backlash for almost everything ...
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Created on 14 August 2020
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35.
How This Brooklyn Sign Painter is Keeping Activism and The Art of Hand Lettering Alive
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(Arts)
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... here in Brooklyn. Soon afterwards I noticed a new hand painted sign on the same block at a restaurant that was offering free food for covid-impacted restaurant workers. I wondered who was making these ...
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Created on 10 August 2020
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36.
The Women Of "Sesame Street" Share Their Behind-The-Scenes Storie
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(TV)
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... Workshop (renamed Sesame Workshop in 2000) and a new show, Sesame Street, was born.
It was an instant hit, partly due to its fast-paced format of video segments, animation, puppetry, and multicultural ...
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Created on 17 July 2020
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37.
Pizza Maven Shealyn Brand Is Keeping The Wood Fire Burning During Quarantine
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(Eat Me)
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... a to-go slice is nothing like sitting at a nice table having it served al fresco. New York pizza maven Shealyn Brand saw what was missing and is working with Hormel Foods to bring the fanciest of pizza ...
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Created on 17 July 2020
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38.
You Should Know These 5 Queer Womxn Fighting for LGBTQ+ Rights Today
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(Feminism)
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... (especially transgender) activists in the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Activist Marsha P. Johnson got a special shout out from Google, which unveiled a new logo illustration bearing her face ...
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Created on 30 June 2020
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39.
12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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(Books)
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... DiAngelo’s White Fragility are at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, but let’s keep the momentum going and read books by Black women writers all the time, not just during our current global ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
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40.
Week Of Women: H.E.R, Soko, and Padma Lakshmi
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(Entertainment)
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This week, we’re enjoying new music by H.E.R, Soko, and more. For even more of our entertainment picks, check out last week’s Black Lives matter edition of this column.
MOVIES/TV
Taste the Nation ...
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Created on 11 June 2020