- 1. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... especially when it attempted to raise awareness about violence against Black people in the country. As she continues to perform the song, she is constantly being warned and watched by the people around ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 2. An Increasing Number of Women in the UK Have Reported Being Pricked or "Spiked" With Drug-Filled Syringe Needles While Out in Public. Activists Are Calling For Safer Nightclub Condition
- (Feminism)
- ... violence against women, a new, horrifying issue has emerged in the past couple of months : “needle spiking." Spiking is a method in which someone pours drugs in somebody else’s drink. It can take many ...
- Created on 02 November 2021
- 3. R. Kelly, R&B Singer and Producer, Finally Convicted of Sex Crimes After Decades of Allegations and Crimes Against Underage Girls and Boys
- (Music)
- ... in swifter action. The women who accused both Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby were predominantly white, and both men were imprisoned. The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 4. How the US Criminal Justice System Failed Olympic Gold Medalists: the Botched FBI Investigation of Former Team USA Doctor Larry Nassar
- (Feminism)
- ... the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Signed under the Clinton administration, the VAWA provided civil rights remedies for victims of gender-based violence. This law, however, was deemed unconstitutional ...
- Created on 24 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)
- ... lifelong activist who saw a lack of empathy in traditional responses to sexual assault, Burke had been using the phrase “me too” for years to expand the dialogue around sexual violence. She was fresh off ...
- Created on 14 September 2021
- 6. The recent Taliban takeover is terrifying for Afghan women and girls—here's wh
- (Feminism)
- ... August 15, 2021 Violence Against Women In 2009, Afghanistan made historical progress in curbing violence against women and girls in the country by passing the Elimination of Violence ...
- Created on 18 August 2021
- 7. It’s A Matter Of Life Or Death: Why We Must Teach Students About Dating Violence
- (Feminism)
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a bill aimed at requiring schools to educate kids about dating violence prevention; this education would occur once in middle school and twice in high school. As ...
- Created on 23 June 2021
- 8. Evan Rachel Wood, Ashley Morgan Smithline, And At Least 13 Other Women Speak Out Against Marilyn Manson
- (Feminism)
- Trigger warning: This article includes detailed descriptions of abuse and sexual violence. Last week, Ashley Morgan Smithline opened up about her abuse with singer Marilyn Manson. Smithline confessed ...
- Created on 13 May 2021
- 9. On International Women's Day, Women in Mexico Marched To Protest The Country's Ongoing Crisis of Gender-Based Violen
- (Feminism)
- ... of sexual violence against women in Mexico. An investigation by Animal Politico found that between 2014 and 2018, only five percent of the country’s sexual assault allegations resulted in a criminal sentence. ...
- Created on 10 March 2021
- 10. “Promising Young Woman” Is Exactly What It Needs To Be
- (Movies)
- Promising Young Woman, the debut film from actress and Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell, is a divisive movie. It tackles the broad and insidious horror of violence against women, in all its casual ...
- Created on 13 February 2021
- 11. Harlem Residents Demand Justice After Violent Attack On Black Woman
- (Feminism)
- ... didn't just bite me and like that was it," she said, "This was a recurring action that he did on my face as if he was trying to literally take my eye. That's what it felt like." The violence inflicted on ...
- Created on 27 January 2021
- 12. Alarming Stats Reveal Increasing Murder Rates of Women and Girls in Guatemala During COVID
- (Feminism)
- ... against women go unpunished in more than 83% of reported cases. Most of the cases of femicide this year remain unsolved and Guatemalan women endure some of the highest rates of interfamilial violence in ...
- Created on 12 October 2020
- 13. Death of indigenous woman who live-streamed abuse by med staff as she lay dying reignites fight for "No More Stolen Sisters
- (Feminism)
- Content warning: The following story contains discussion of violence against Indigenous women. Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year old Atikamekw woman of the Manawan community in Quebec. She was a mother ...
- Created on 09 October 2020
- 14. Pro-Democracy Protests in Thailand Spark Feminist Political Movement
- (Feminism)
- ... of men attempting to silence Thai women, they refuse to stop fighting for their rights. Image Credit: Aeva Karlsrud, BUST art intern. More from BUST Women-Led Protests In Belarus Met With Violence ...
- Created on 07 October 2020
- 15. Meet Some Of TIME100's Most Influential Women of 202
- (Feminism)
- ... in Japan including a three-year plan to curb sexual violence. Camilla Rothe documented the first case of asymptomatic Covid-19 in Munich and even though the greater scientific community tried to ignore ...
- Created on 23 September 2020
- 16. Mexican-American Sister Trio Tiarra Girls Talk New Cover Single "Can't Stop The World," Heritage, The Pandemic, and Proudest Moments: BUST Intervi
- (Music)
- ... traditions.” With everything that is happening in the world, from the pandemic to racial violence to wildfires, the Tiarra Girls still manage to bring the heat, including their recent with Kathy Valentine ...
- Created on 22 September 2020
- 17. Drake Bell Accused Of Abuse By Ex-Girlfriend
- (Feminism)
- Last night, there was a TikTok posted by Jimi Ono, also known as Melissa Lingafelt, where she accused Drake Bell of verbal and physical abuse during their relationship, which lasted over two years. ...
- Created on 13 August 2020
- 18. Why Is Poland Getting Rid of Protections Against Domestic Violence?
- (Feminism)
- ... government's plans to withdraw from a pan-European convention tackling violence against women. “The aim is to legalize domestic violence,” said Marta Lempart, one of the protest organizers said at a march ...
- Created on 03 August 2020
- 19. Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
- (Feminism)
- Trigger warning: this story includes discussions of sexual assault, domestic violence, violence against womxn. Since the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and a number of other ...
- Created on 16 July 2020
- 20. The UK’s New Bill Will Ban the “Rough Sex Gone Wrong” Defense
- (Feminism)
- ... sex. That equates to 3.6 million women under 40 in the UK who have experienced unbidden violence in sex - and we know that women over 40 experience this too.” However, thanks to the activism of We Can’t ...
- Created on 18 June 2020
