- 1. Scared With Her, Not for Her: Keke Palmer Shines in "Nope
- (Movies)
- ... circles back to discussion of the men in their lives. Although Black women endure the brunt of sexist tropes in film, the lens through which they are portrayed is deeply altered by race. Black women ...
- Created on 04 August 2022
- 2. Season Two of HBO's "Love Life" Co-Starring Former BUST Covergirl Jessica Williams, Puts Modern Black Love on Full Display ...
- (TV)
- ... Harper.) If season one gave us predictable, bland tropes, season two was full of surprises at every turn that genuinely got me thinking about gender, race, and love. While the show is lighthearted, I admired ...
- Created on 09 December 2021
- 3. How “Jennifer's Body" Smashed Its Way Through The Male Gaze And Into Queer, Feminist Cult Statu
- (Movies)
- ... effective feminist subversion of horror tropes and “radical” re-examination of female sexuality. The film can also be viewed as a precursor to recent socially-minded horror hits like Halloween Kills (2021), ...
- Created on 25 October 2021
- 4. Hot Girl Summer Gone Wrong in Twitter Thread-Inspired Film ZOLA
- (Movies)
- ... Shit, Holy Shit, Holy F'in Shit—"We Are Lady Parts" Is Phenomenal! Kevin Can F**K Himself Flips The Script On Misogynistic Sitcom Tropes: A Review New Documentary By Beth B On Lydia Lunch, The War Is ...
- Created on 07 July 2021
- 5. Kevin Can F**k Himself Flips The Script on Misogynistic Sitcom Tropes: A Review
- (TV)
- ... living room. A dark comedy, the show satirizes the misogynistic tropes of 2000's sitcoms (think Kevin Can Wait and The King of Queens). Murphy as the beautiful wife of a decidedly worse-looking yet goofy, ...
- Created on 07 July 2021
- 6. Nicole Riegel's Debut Film "Holler" Is An Uncompromising Portrayal Of Working Class Women: BUST Revi
- (Movies)
- The personal gets political in Holler, a powerful feature debut set in writer/director Nicole Riegel’s hometown of Jackson, Ohio. Jessica Barden (The End of the Fucking World) stars as Ruth, a smart and ...
- Created on 03 June 2021
- 7. You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
- (Eat Me)
- ... the colonialist tropes that are embedded in many of these bars.” Chockie Tom, a bartender and brand ambassador of Indigenous Pomo [Northern Californian] and Walker River Paiute [Central Nevadan] descent, ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 8. Painter Gianna Dispenza Showcases How The Simple Moments In Life Are The Most Beautiful: BUST Interview
- (Arts)
- ... it also reconsiders tropes around women bathing in art, specifically associated with male modernist painters, from the perspective of a woman. But I find culture, belief, and recurring images just as fertile ...
- Created on 14 May 2021
- 9. 8 New, Inclusive YA Rom-Coms You'll Fall For This Sprin
- (Books)
- ... — or out very, very soon. And the best part is, we're seeing all kinds of diverse, all-too-relatable heroes, heroines, and love stories, often paired with fresh takes on the genre's best tropes. (Fake dating ...
- Created on 11 May 2021
- 10. Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... in the Spring 2021 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST Rachel Brosnahan’s New Movie "I'm Your Woman" Takes Well-Worn Crime Tropes And Turns Them On Their Heads: BUST Review ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
- 11. Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
- (Living)
- ... lime and cheese aspic abominations, all designed to encourage readers to reach for the mid-century version of “living your best life.” From the hysterical to the long-suffering, formulaic female tropes ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 12. Calling All Lady Stoners: On Shame, Gender, and Weed
- (Living)
- ... identity. These tropes play out in my real life all the time. People are surprised by the fact that I’m a self-described pothead, and I won’t lie, this element of surprise is something I revel in. I thoroughly ...
- Created on 18 December 2020
- 13. Ekwa Msangi Scrutinizes American Exceptionalism In Her First Film: "Farewell Amor
- (Movies)
- The feature debut of Tanzanian American writer/director Ekwa Msangi, Farewell Amor, follows an immigrant family from Angola that reunites 17 years after husband and father Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) ...
- Created on 10 December 2020
- 14. Rachel Brosnahan’s New Movie "I'm Your Woman" Takes Well-Worn Crime Tropes and Turns Them on Their Heads: BUST Revi
- (Movies)
- Rachel Brosnahan and Arinzé KeneI’m Your Woman takes well-worn crime tropes and turns them on their heads by centering typically supporting characters—the meek wife, the stoic henchman—and offering them ...
- Created on 04 December 2020
- 15. Clea DuVall Is Pioneering the Queer Christmas Rom-Com With 'Happiest Season
- (Movies)
- ... into the traditional Christmas tropes with playful candor and cheer, evolving the genre to embrace queer identities and stories. More from BUST The "Happiest Season" Trailer Promises A New Kind Of Christmas ...
- Created on 18 November 2020
- 16. New Statue Honoring "Mother of Feminism" Mary Wollstonecraft Is, You Guessed It, Naked ...
- (Feminism)
- ... FAMOUS MALE INTELLECTUALS GET STATUES OF THEM SO WE SEE THEM AND REMEMBER THEM c) being hot and naked so regularly defines women that to deliberately play INTO it does nothing but reinforce tired old tropes. ...
- Created on 10 November 2020
- 17. Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
- (Feminism)
- ... his gross disregard for citizenship and his blatant xenophobia—this is a man who ran commercials about rounding people up and deporting them, this is someone who used racist tropes—my outrage became just ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 18. Michaela Coel's "I May Destroy You" Shatters Stereotypes — And Depicts Rape As It Really
- (TV)
- Content warning: The following review of Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” includes discussion of rape, assault and racism that may be upsetting to readers. Spoiler warning: The following review ...
- Created on 11 September 2020
- 19. Some Biden Supporters Are Trying To Stop Kamala Harris From Being Vice President (And There's A Massive Double Standard
- (Feminism)
- ... seems to be a negative one for women. Ambition is not something that should be seen as a negative, and it exposes the sexist tropes that these Biden allies are using to squash Senator Harris’s chances ...
- Created on 30 July 2020
- 20. Less Manipulation, More Representation: Popular TV Shows Pull Episodes with Offensive Caricatures
- (Feminism)
- ... comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness." A scene from The Office where a character appears to be in blackface has also been edited out. The show’s creator Greg ...
- Created on 29 June 2020
