- 1. Free Your Mind: New Non-Fiction From B-Movie Queen Elvira, Mistress of Darkness, and Believing, a Cultural Analysis on Gender-Violence from Anita Hill
- (Books)
- ... more complex than one might expect. Her memoir covers everything from her difficult Kansas childhood to her days as a teenage groupie and go-go dancer, with cameos from a range of celebrities including ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 2. 8 Excellent Books By Immigrant Authors To Read This National Immigrant Heritage Month
- (Books)
- ... expectations of a teenager. Caught between two countries and feeling like she doesn’t entirely belong in either, We Need New Names is a heart-wrenching coming of age story. 3. Happiness, Like Water ...
- Created on 14 June 2021
- 3. Jaquira Díaz On "Ordinary Girls," Home, And Telling Her Story: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... hold multiple homes in yourself at once? I never stopped moving when I was a child, a teenager, a woman. As a woman, I kept looking for a place that felt like home. I guess I’m still doing that. I feel ...
- Created on 03 January 2020
- 4. The Woman Behind "Reviving Ophelia" Reflects On Teen Girls' Mental Health, Then & No
- (Feminism)
- ... U.S. involvement in two wars, along with the rise of Al Qaeda, and then ISIS, have unfolded across the lifespans of today’s teenagers. “I am crushed when I see that my friends have more Instagram ...
- Created on 24 September 2019
- 5. "I Love You, Now Die" Director Erin Lee Carr Demystifies Teen Girlhood Through True Crime Docs: BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... a then-teenage girl, sent her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, right before he killed himself. In 2015, she was charged with involuntary manslaughter; in 2019, she was found guilty. As someone who’s always been ...
- Created on 12 July 2019
- 6. The Secret, Eternal Glamour of “Older Girls”
- (Living)
- ... stumbling, into teenage girlhood myself, the enigmatic coolness of girls who came before me remained just out of reach. When I was anxiously learning to drive, they were piled into SUVs and expertly whipping ...
- Created on 02 May 2019
- 7. What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginit
- (Movies)
- ... plain, loner of a 17-year-old girl… hopelessly clumsy and incapable of physical coordination,” as described by Anne Helen Petersen in her article "That Teenage Feeling: Twilight, Fantasy, And Feminist Readers." ...
- Created on 05 December 2018
- 8. Poet Olivia Gatwood Writes Like Teen Spirit: BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- If anyone was going to write a poem called “Ode to My Bitch Face,” it would be Olivia Gatwood. Even as a teenager, she was tough: At 16, she led 20 women in a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit ...
- Created on 09 February 2018
- 9. Teen Girls Take On Sexism In Sophie Strauss' "Quiz In A Magazine" Video: Interview With Animator Becca Schucha
- (Music)
- ... by us. When Becca told me she had a class full of teenage girls who wanted to make a music video for 'Quiz,' I couldn’t think of a better group of people to interpret this song. I had no idea we’d release ...
- Created on 16 October 2017
- 10. How Women Directors Show The Nuanced Reality Of Female Friendship
- (Movies)
- ... teenage imagination has a better frame of reference than the world of Bed of Roses, for one thing). For the onscreen representation of female friendship, this means showing the intricacy of the relationship, ...
- Created on 19 September 2017
- 11. 11 New Books By Women To Read Right Now
- (Books)
- ... Mia and her teenaged daughter Pearl, serves to shake her fixed notions of family and justice. As Pearl becomes absorbed into the Richardson clan, Elena’s youngest daughter grows attached to Mia. The attempt ...
- Created on 25 August 2017
- 12. Amber Tamblyn, Before She Painted It Black: From The BUST Archives
- (Movies)
- ... own at 20 with her leading role on the television series Joan of Arcadia, which aired from 2003 to 2005. In it, she nailed the role of a sassy teenager who receives messages from God—an angsty, funny, ...
- Created on 25 May 2017
- 13. Kathryn Bigelow, From "The Hurt Locker" To "Detroit": 52 Weeks Of Directo
- (Movies)
- ... creepily prophetic for today’s audiences considering the unrest and violence in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, the militarization of police, and the high number of ...
- Created on 02 February 2017
- 14. Why We Should Be Freaking Out About The 'Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda' Movi
- (Movies)
- It’s official: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the coming-of-age YA novel about “not-so-openly gay” teenager Simon Spier, is going to be a movie. And needless to say, I am EXCITED. 2016 was a hard ...
- Created on 04 January 2017
- 15. Helen Hunt Couldn't Get Roles After Her Oscar — So She Got Behind The Camer
- (Movies)
- ... who is a helicopter parent to her teenage son, Angelo (Brenton Thwaites), and follows him out to Los Angeles after he decides to drop out of college in order to surf and write. Ride features a type of ...
- Created on 16 December 2016
- 16. Ana Lily Amirpour's "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" Is A Western Noir With A Feminist Twist: 52 Weeks Of Directo
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- After dropping out of college as a biology major, Ana Lily Amirpour went to art school in San Francisco and film school at UCLA. She signed early with Hollywood agents and managers, but while in Germany ...
- Created on 08 December 2016
- 17. Larisa Shepitko's Stunning Soviet-Era Films Will Have You Wondering Why You've Never Heard Her Na
- (Movies)
- ... More from BUST With 'Girlhood' And 'Tomboy,' Celine Sciamma Redefines Coming-Of-Age Andrea Arnold, From 'Fish Tank' To 'American Honey,' Tells The Stories Of Teenage Girls How Ann Hui Became A Leader ...
- Created on 01 December 2016
- 18. With 'Girlhood' And 'Tomboy,' Celine Sciamma Redefines Coming-Of-A
- (Movies)
- ... two previous coming-of-age films, Water Lilies and Tomboy, which are both about white pre-teen or teenage girls. Sciamma said she intentionally created a story about black teenagers because of her concern ...
- Created on 03 November 2016
- 19. We Can't Look Away From These Images Inspired By Girl Culture ...
- (Arts)
- ... in locations that are both lavish and familial. A teenage girl sits on a bed almost nude, hunched over her legs among her Beanie Babies. In another photograph, a mother and daughter look out the window, ...
- Created on 13 April 2016
- 20. This 8th Grade Letter About ChangesOneBowie is Everything
- (Music)
- Jenny Hayes, 1982 Dear Rosie AKA Ro-Ho-Zee AKA Rosarita Refried Beans, HI! Sorry your new school is so bunk. You aren’t missing much here, everything is pretty much the same except that Erica ...
- Created on 11 January 2016
