- 1. To Improve Teen Girls' Self-Esteem, Disrupt Their Instagram Feeds, Study Says
- (Feminism)
- ... than ever.” Even so called “body-positive” accounts can be rife with fatphobic language, edited photos, and strategic posing that would make anyone feel bad about themselves. And it seems like teen girls ...
- Created on 27 February 2023
- 2. 5 Times Pretty Little Liars Was Problematic As Hell
- (TV)
- On June 8, 2010, Pretty Little Liars premiered on ABC Family. It featured 4 teens, Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer, being stalked by an anonymous figure going by “A”, who appeared after their 5th member, ...
- Created on 12 July 2022
- 3. Watching "Tall Girl 2" While Black: Just How Much Of A Struggle Is Being Tall, Anyway
- (Movies)
- On February 11th, Netflix released their sequel to Tall Girl, Tall Girl 2. The Tall Girl series focuses Jodi, a junior at Ruby Bridges High School, who is so close to being truly happy…if only she weren’t ...
- Created on 02 March 2022
- 4. Instagram Is Destroying Teen Girls' Mental Health, and Facebook's Been Real Quiet About I
- (General)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 16 September 2021
- 5. Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
- (Feminism)
- ... 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 ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 6. One Woman Can't Wait—Literally—To End Her Dry Spell: One-Handed Rea
- (Sex)
- ... Half a lifetime? Freshly showered, I’m naked and a shiver races through me as the air conditioning touches my skin. Lying exposed feels daring, naughty, and I giggle like a teenager, exhilarated by the ...
- Created on 05 May 2021
- 7. Billie Eilish's British Vogue Cover Shows More Than Just the Singer's Sk
- (Music)
- ... hairstyle. The cover has shock value. The world was used to seeing the teenage popstar draped in boxy clothing leaving her physical silhouette completely to the imagination. Eilish has attributed the ...
- Created on 04 May 2021
- 8. Why I Spend Three Hours a Day Looking in The Mirror
- (Living)
- ... “mirror gazing.” Mirror gazing. How romantic is that? I could be one of those people whose anxieties make them pull out their eyelashes or need to unlock and lock their front door seventeen times before ...
- Created on 14 April 2020
- 9. Instagram Is Taking Action Against Harmful Advertisements
- (Feminism)
- While technology has made it increasingly harder to go a day without consuming content that makes you feel not skinny enough, not pretty enough, and on and on and on, Instagram is addressing the role ...
- Created on 19 September 2019
- 10. A Feminist Activist Is In Hiding After She Was Accused of Inciting Rebellion in Pakistan
- (Feminism)
- ... reason that the hunt continues. As a teenager, Ismail began the advocacy group Aware Girls, which brought young Pakistani women together to advocate for their rights. One member, Malala Yousafzai survived ...
- Created on 23 July 2019
- 11. The C-Words Of Coachella: Capitalism, Consumerism, And Cults
- (Living)
- ... sixteen years later, by his own standards, it seems that Tollett possesses the same amount the amount of respect for “the audience and the music” as Donald Trump has for women and people of color. But ...
- Created on 10 April 2019
- 12. How Lucille Ball Smashed Her Way Through The Patriarchy
- (Entertainment)
- ... of energy and imagination. At 15 she enrolled in a New York City drama school but struggled to belong. Ball recalls being “a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the school’s star pupil, Bette Davis.” Her ...
- Created on 19 March 2019
- 13. 19 Lisa Simpson Quotes To Get You Through Your Week
- (Living)
- ... Thirteen stores that begin with 'Le Sex.' I write this letter not to nag or whine, but to prod. We can better ourselves....Well, most of us." (They Saved Lisa’s Brain, s. 10 ep. 22) Another great example ...
- Created on 18 September 2018
- 14. "The Redistribution Of Gardening"—A Response To Ross Douthat's "The Redistribution Of S
- (Feminism)
- ... affiliated with the violent “incel” subculture and ideology; so, too, was the man who killed six and injured fourteen at UC Santa Barbara in 2014. In his manifesto, the UCSB murderer wrote, “Girls gave ...
- Created on 09 May 2018
- 15. On Being Tall: A Mighty Writers Essay
- (Feminism)
- ... to be whoever I want, because I’m okay with me. One piece of advice I have for teens is to just hang in there, your happiness is yours to own. It’s always there, you just gotta build on it. My hopes ...
- Created on 05 February 2018
- 16. The Other Girl
- (Sex)
- ... longer a person at all. She was no longer someone I had once connected with over coming out at nineteen. She was no longer the pretty and sweet girl who I even had once considered liking. She became ...
- Created on 28 April 2017
- 17. A Fresh Start: Finding Closure in the Panty Aisle
- (Sex)
- ... same brand I had worn since I started buying my own panties at fifteen. When I was younger, it was where I would go when I was having a bad day. Buying panties was therapeutic. I wouldn’t buy panties because ...
- Created on 20 December 2016
- 18. #WearWhatYouWant Encourages Women To Throw Out Fashion Rules
- (Feminism)
- ... More from BUST If Men Received The Same Fashion Advice As Women Jessica Alba Shares A Moving Message About Gun Violence At The Teen Choice Awards Amanda Palmer Strips Down To Talk About Feminism, Motherhood, ...
- Created on 01 August 2016
- 19. Am I Latina Enough? And Other Concerns I Have
- (Living)
- ... There was the phase where I so badly wanted to be Molly Ringwald and forced myself to mimic her handwriting from Sixteen Candles when she’s taking the sex quiz about Jake Ryan. Then there was my faux punk ...
- Created on 22 March 2016
- 20. BUST's 5 Favorite Movies of 201
- (Movies)
- ... of the hospital and recovering. As he gains his footing with his new physical limitations, he forms a precarious relationship with Diane (Elizabeth Banks), a woman traumatized by her teenage son’s recent ...
- Created on 21 December 2015
