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How “Jennifer's Body" Smashed Its Way Through The Male Gaze And Into Queer, Feminist Cult Statu
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(Movies)
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... the film’s major “sell.”
As the film began its theatrical run in September 2009, it attracted an audience not of teen girls – who would, presumably, identify with the plights of the teenage protagonists ...
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Created on 25 October 2021
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For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
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(General)
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... most dangerous nights of the year.
It didn’t take long for Americans to grow tired of teenage ruffians committing crimes on an annual basis. So by the early 1930s, reformers began trying to change Halloween. ...
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Created on 21 October 2021
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In Her Memoir "The Big Hurt," Erika Schickel Looks At Her Self-Imposed Bad Girl Image Through A New Len
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(Books)
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... writers in New York, Schickel describes her teenage rebellion against a backdrop of elite private schools, old money, and her parents’ artistic fame. What emerges is a portrait of a young woman both privileged ...
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Created on 18 October 2021
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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... on TikTok, it’s no surprise that Rock has become such an obsession amongst Gen-Zers. Back in 2017, Time Magazine listed Rock as one of the most influential teens of the year, and he made his first cover ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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6 Women-Directed Horror Thrillers to Fulfill All of Your Spooky Season Cravings
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(Movies)
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... mirror, the Candyman’s spirit is summoned to kill you. Flashforward to the present-day, gentrified Cabrini-Green neighborhood, Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a struggling artist who becomes wildly ...
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Created on 01 October 2021
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How the US Criminal Justice System Failed Olympic Gold Medalists: the Botched FBI Investigation of Former Team USA Doctor Larry Nassar
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(Feminism)
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... center for the US women’s national gymnastics team. Open from 1981 to 2018, the Huntsville, Texas-based training camp housed thousands of aspiring teen athletes, with dozens remembering Karolyi as the ...
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Created on 24 September 2021
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Instagram Is Destroying Teen Girls' Mental Health, and Facebook's Been Real Quiet About I
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(General)
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... health of its users. The results are grim, especially for one of Instagram’s top demographics: teenage girls.
In a March 2020 company presentation obtained by the Journal, Facebook’s researchers stated ...
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Created on 16 September 2021
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Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
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(Feminism)
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... how an R. Kelly is possible?”
Burke was first drawn to organizing by close-to-home events like the murder of Brooklyn teen Yusef Hawkins by a white mob, and the arrest of five now-exonerated Black and ...
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Created on 14 September 2021
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Dynamic Actor/Writer/Director Natalie Morales Celebrates The Premiere of Her New Drama “Language Lessons” on BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
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(Poptarts)
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... also emerged as an exciting feature film director with an incredibly relatable and undeniably feminist point-of-view. First, she released the teen road trip comedy Plan B in May on Hulu, about two high ...
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Created on 09 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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... and music mogul Quincy Jones actually met as teenagers and quickly became sweethearts in the 1940s when racial segregation was overt, not implied. “We started to go out, making out, and going to all the ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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St. Vincent, Tarana Burke, Courtney Stodden, Hailie Sahar, Women Who Get "Happy Endings", and more, in BUST's New Fall 2021 Issue, Out toda
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(Entertainment)
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... founder Tarana Burke, a surprising investigation into “full service” massage providers for women, a hot take on child marriage from former teen bride Courtney Stodden, and much more!
And Get Ready For ...
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Created on 31 August 2021
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We've Got a Long Way to Go: The Gossip Girl Reboot Promised Diversity, but Served Up More of the Same Old, Same Old Instea
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(TV)
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The original Gossip Girl filled the early 2000s teens and young adults with yearnings for sprawling skylines, the temptations of big city living, and the privileges of old money. The Gossip Girl reboot ...
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Created on 17 August 2021
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One Part Singer, One Part Producer, Newcomer Chelsea Collins, Has Her Sights on Pop Music Domination: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... and as a preteen, it was Kanye [West] and Taylor [Swift]. And overall, the one person who I looked up to on a musicality level, not an artist level was Max Martin. I had read that he also did classical ...
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Created on 11 August 2021
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Slacker-Pop Goddess Lauran Hibberd Releases Excellent New EP “Goober”: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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Lauran Hibberd has her tongue firmly planted in her cheek and her heart right on her sleeve with her latest EP “Goober.” Intimate, real, and with enough wit to fill a comedy club, this slacker-pop star’s ...
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Created on 29 July 2021
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I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Zaila Avant-garde Is the First African-American to Win the Spelling Bee--And She's Also A Basketball Prodigy ...
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(Entertainment)
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Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American winner of the Scripp’s National Spelling Bee on Thursday, and is quickly becoming America’s favorite (and most interesting) 14-year-old.
After unsuccessfully ...
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Created on 12 July 2021
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The Remarkable Story of Three Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Traitors During WW II
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(Feminism)
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... was intercepted at the post office and passed on to members of the Dutch resistance.
Suddenly, two teenage girls sharing a bike—one peddling while the other sits side-saddle on the luggage rack—ride ...
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Created on 09 July 2021
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The Founders of GirlTrek Are Making Major Moves For The Health of Black Women
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(Living)
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... Chelsea Charles Photo provided by GirlTrek
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2021 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today!
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Created on 01 July 2021
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The "iCarly" Reboot Sucked For The First 5 Minutes—Then It Quickly Became The Show We Used To Know And Lov
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(TV)
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... of your childhood. Fifteen seconds in, and I’m worried. The pacing is off, the dialogue seems forced, and although I’m still watching the characters I used to know and love, they seem… out of practice. ...
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Created on 23 June 2021
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It’s A Matter Of Life Or Death: Why We Must Teach Students About Dating Violence
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(Feminism)
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... in the education system, as if it is the plague. But what happened when school systems replaced abstinence-based sex education with factual-based sex ed? We saw a drastic drop in teen pregnancies and an ...
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Created on 23 June 2021
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A New Study Shows Suicide Attempts Among Young Girls Have Risen 50% During the Pandemic—Here's How To Hel
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(Living)
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Many terrifying statistics have come out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one of them being an alarming increase in suicide attempts among adolescent girls.
According to a new study by the Center for ...
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Created on 16 June 2021
