- 1. Nina Renata Aron Wants You To Know That It Gets Better: BUST Interview
- (Books)
- ... working with kids and virtual school and no playdates and no nothing, no sports, et cetera. And we're all forced into this stay-at-home mom role. The other day, I woke up and my best friend who's on the ...
- Created on 25 February 2021
- 2. How One Woman Changed The Video Game World Forever
- (Entertainment)
- ... to go downhill,” she told Levy. They married before they were 20, promptly had two children, and Roberta became a stay-at-home mom while Ken got a job as a programmer for IBM. The Williams’ home in Simi ...
- Created on 09 October 2020
- 3. Study Shows That COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects The Lives Of Mothers
- (Feminism)
- ... balance and an increase in invisible unpaid labor. The United Nations reports that not only women’s safety is affected by COVID-19 related stay-at-home orders but also the amount of time women spend on ...
- Created on 23 September 2020
- 4. Lisa Jewell's "Invisible Girl" Is a Compelling, Dark, and Sharp Exploration of Toxic Masculini
- (Books)
- ... holding onto something terrible that prevents her from connecting with the world around her. Cate is a middle-aged stay-at-home mom working to keep her strained marriage intact. And Owen is a lonely, recently ...
- Created on 21 September 2020
- 5. 16 LGBTQ+ Movies Directed By Women Of Color To Watch This Pride Month
- (Movies)
- ... once best friends. Sarah is a lonely stay-at-home mom who is being neglected by her husband, so she calls her best friend Mindy to go on a road trip with her. As the road trip progresses, their relationship ...
- Created on 23 June 2020
- 6. Quarantine Holds Different Hardships For Those With Eating Disorders
- (Living)
- ... Moreover, women who identified as lesbian or bisexual were twice as likely to report binge-eating. Unfortunately, because of the coronavirus pandemic and worldwide stay-at-home orders, those who have ...
- Created on 15 June 2020
- 7. This Is What Happens When Women Are In Power During A Crisis
- (Feminism)
- ... lock down has seemed to have an impact on slowing the spread of the virus. Ardern was sure to hold those who have not listened to stay-at-home rules accountable, citing “some people I would charitably ...
- Created on 06 April 2020
- 8. Gwendoline Christie On Becoming Brienne Of Tarth, Owning Her Androgyny, And Confronting The End Of “Game Of Thrones”: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... history or into space,” she says. Her parents, a stay-at-home mom and salesman dad, were always very supportive, even indulging her love of expensive, imported magazines (“the most exotic thing was a copy ...
- Created on 17 May 2019
- 9. Allison Raskin's Podcast "GOSSIP" Is The Audio Soap Opera You've Been Waiting
- (Entertainment)
- ... as it seems. Along the way, Raskin and Co. give the audience plenty of insight into the lives of the show’s unlikely girl gang: stay-at-home mom Valerie (Victoria Rowell), anxious Catholic school administrator ...
- Created on 21 June 2018
- 10. Cynthia Nixon, Before She Ran For Governor: From The BUST Archives
- (TV)
- ... of a crapshoot. So when you were growing up was she a stay-at-home mom? Nooooooo! My mother was the support of our family, completely. Actually, the way in which she literally decided to give up ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 11. 11 Books By Women To Read In January 2018
- (Books)
- ... about her birth mother, something that gets more complicated when she becomes pregnant herself. Susan is a stay-at-home mom who wants to leave her marriage. And finally, there’s Gin, a mysterious “mender”—and ...
- Created on 16 January 2018
- 12. How "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" Represents Jewish Wome
- (TV)
- ... then. Additionally, the show depicts the downfall of the “appropriate” female lifestyle — getting married right out of college and being a stay-at-home mother who never has to lift a finger. In the 1950s, ...
- Created on 19 December 2017
- 13. I Was A Professional Dominatrix — Until Having A Baby Changed How I See BDSM
- (Sex)
- ... myself isolating behind a wall of the unsaid. While other stay-at-home parents could openly lament the professional identities they had passed off, I had four scarlet letters attached to my resume: BDSM. ...
- Created on 22 February 2017
- 14. My Dad Is In The Army And He Raised Me To Be A Feminist
- (Feminism)
- ... and he worked alongside women—single mothers supporting their children, married women who were separated from their spouses because of their jobs, and women who worked while their husbands were stay-at-home ...
- Created on 17 June 2016
- 15. What An Anti-Feminist Student Taught Me About Feminism: BUST True Story
- (Feminism)
- ... finally blurted out: “It’s just — I really want to be a stay-at-home mom one day, and I feel all this pressure to succeed at some sort of office job.” Illumination. The conversation took a real shift, ...
- Created on 14 April 2016
- 16. Confessions Of A Kept Woman: BUST True Story
- (Sex)
- ... on our first house. I still had savings in 2013 when our second daughter, Elle, was born. And then something unexpected happened. I became consumed by and lost in the role of stay-at-home parenting. ...
- Created on 05 April 2016
- 17. Seeing My Friends Have Kids Makes Me Want Them Even Less: BUST True Story
- (Living)
- ... also thank them for helping me to learn that parenthood is not the choice for me. Image: Parks & Recreation More from BUST I'm A Stay-At-Home Mom And I Hate It: BUST True Story Why I Won't Call ...
- Created on 25 March 2016
- 18. What I Wish I'd Known Before I Became A Young Mothe
- (Living)
- I wish, as a young mother, I’d have known being a mother is, despite smiling moms in television commercials, not fun. The popular Tumblr It's Like They Know Us has made it clear that advertisements ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 19. To Men I Love, About Men Who Scare Me
- (Feminism)
- ... Photo via Flickr/Patricia Salgado. More from BUST My Picture Perfect Wedding Day - With Ostomy Bags: BUST True Story I'm A Stay-At-Home Mom And I Hate It: BUST True Story Red Dots, Black Dots: Family ...
- Created on 22 February 2016
- 20. In WWII America, This All-Woman Swing Band Broke Race And Gender Barriers
- (Music)
- ... By Sonja Patterson This article originally appeared in the April/May 2013 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST 52 Weeks of Directors: Lynne Ramsay I'm A Stay-At-Home Mom ...
- Created on 22 February 2016
