- 1. From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
- (Entertainment)
- ... the City writer Jenny Bicks. The documentary-style show follows the quirky residents of the fictional Midwestern town of Flatch. Hill is one such resident—a local magic shop owner who peddles vapes on ...
- Created on 16 June 2022
- 2. A Love Letter to Marsha, The Spontaneous Statue of Trans-Activist Marsha P. Johnson, Gets a New Home at The Center in New York
- (Feminism)
- A Love Letter to Marsha, the spontaneous statue of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson that was erected at Christopher Park on August 24,2021, the day that would have been her 76th birthday, is ...
- Created on 25 May 2022
- 3. The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
- (Eat Me)
- ... to accept the foreigners into her sacred healing ceremonies, and Gordon Wasson became one of the first Westerners to participate in such a ceremony. The couple gathered spores while there, which were brought ...
- Created on 28 April 2022
- 4. Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
- (Arts)
- ... fairies at the beck. As later reported by The Westminster Gazette in 1921, her parents considered this “a childish fancy, and let it pass.” So it wasn’t surprising that, while the grownups remained skeptical ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 5. Cultures That Embraced LGBTQIA+ Identity Before Colonization Messed Everything Up
- (Living)
- ... the iceberg when it comes to queer representation in pre-colonial cultures, and a reminder that it isn’t necessary to define yourself with westernized, binary terms. Humans have always been fluid beings ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 6. You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
- (Eat Me)
- ... of the most ironic aspects of the Tiki vogue is that while the islands of the South Pacific are now idolized by Westerners as utopian, many aspects of their indigenous cultures were originally suppressed ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 7. "Little Amal," A 12-Foot Syrian Girl Puppet, Will Travel 5,000 Miles As Part Of A Public Art Project About The Plight Of Refugee
- (Arts)
- ... This Artist's "Plastic Bag Store" Is A Trashy Treasure This Accessory Artist Is Reclaiming Her Cherokee Heritage One Bead At A Time Jennifer Mack-Watkins's Newest Exhibit Is An Ode To The Beauty Of ...
- Created on 12 May 2021
- 8. In Honor of AAPI Heritage Month, Read These 10 New and Upcoming Works By AAPI Authors
- (Books)
- ... identity all intersect. Whereabouts by Jumpha Lahiri Out now. The newest novel from the author of The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies, and The Lowland, it is the first she has both written in Italian ...
- Created on 10 May 2021
- 9. Rachel Brosnahan Dishes on Why Midge Maisel Isn’t a Feminist and How She Manages Acting As an Introvert: Exclusive BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... mid-century Upper West Side Jewish culture, downtown underground comedy (even the grime has a pleasant glow), and the challenges facing a woman actively shunning the main roles she’s expected to play—namely ...
- Created on 07 April 2021
- 10. A Lady, Liberated: Julia Lindon On Depicting An Honest Coming Out Story In Her New Short Film
- (Movies)
- ... uses iconic LBGTQ+ signposts like the West Village in Manhattan, once called the ‘Gay Village,’ shots of the Stonewall Inn, and the inclusion of a lesbian bar to cement all the newness of Shea’s coming ...
- Created on 14 October 2020
- 11. You Go Girl: Why Traveling to Atlantic City during COVID Felt Safer Than Staying Home
- (Living)
- ... to return to the Jersey Shore (assuming New Jersey’s COVID transmission rate stays among the lowest in the nation at around 2%) the next time the quarantine blues become too much to bear. That being said, ...
- Created on 28 September 2020
- 12. Gender Kills: CA Wildfire Due to a Gender Reveal Mishap Reveals the Urgency of Giving Indigenous People Land Rights
- (Living)
- ... are raging in Northern CA and Northwest coast, where the sky is coated in a shrill bright orange, grey flakes of ash are falling down and the air quality debilitating all during a pandemic… I think it’s ...
- Created on 22 September 2020
- 13. We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
- (Movies)
- ... including his fateful duel with Hamilton and, later, when he was charged with treason for plotting to help western states secede, hoping to become the emperor or whatever new nation was founded. In 1812, ...
- Created on 10 July 2020
- 14. Now That I’ve Experienced My First Music Cruise, I Never Want To See Bands On Land Again
- (Living)
- ... Ultimate Disco Cruise—a floating music festival that took attendees from Miami to Key West to the Bahamas and back from February 10-15—was such an absolute game-changer for me. To my delight, the retro-soul ...
- Created on 25 February 2020
- 15. Puss N’ Boots On Their New Album, Their Favorite Songs, And What They Love About Each Other: BUST Interview
- (Music)
- ... The Fat Cat is a pool hall in the West Village. They have a jazz room in back. But Sasha said, “I can get us a gig in the pool hall part where it’s not a big deal.” This was around the time my second record ...
- Created on 20 February 2020
- 16. Fierce Feminist Author Alix Kates Shulman Revisits "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" 45 Years Late
- (Books)
- ... West Village loft is exactly the kind of apartment you’d expect from someone who’s written 12 books and was a founding second-wave feminist. Shulman was there in 1968 at the famous Miss America pageant ...
- Created on 27 January 2020
- 17. These 8 Pieces Will Make You Thee Rootinest, Tootinest Baddie In The West
- (Style)
- Western meets street style in these looks for ridin’ high Saddle up and hit the olde town road in these eight Western-influenced pieces. Yee-haw! Rim Job The edge of this neon cowboy hat lights ...
- Created on 21 January 2020
- 18. Week of Women: June 28-July 4, 2019
- (Entertainment)
- ... of his most compelling heroines. Out through IFC Films June 28. Midsommar In A24’s newest horror movie, Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor co-star as a young American couple who take a trip to a remote ...
- Created on 27 June 2019
- 19. A Feminist Guide To Morongo Basin, California
- (Living)
- ... into Holly’s Trading Post (49700 Twentynine Palms Highway, Morongo Valley) for vintage ceramics and textiles, and Pioneertown General Store (53635 Mane St., Pioneertown) for curated vintage with a Western ...
- Created on 25 April 2019
- 20. Nepal Woman Dies From Suffocation In Banned Menstruation Hut
- (Feminism)
- 21-year-old Parbati Bogati was found dead in a windowless “menstruation hut” in western Nepal, The New York Times and BBC.com report. Lal Bahadur Dhami, the deputy superintendent of the local police, ...
- Created on 04 February 2019
