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Chelsea Handler Slayed at the Critic's Choice Awards; Announces Upcoming tou
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(TV)
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... of fresh air to have another woman chipping away at that white-men-named-Jimmy-ceiling.
Another win for the comedian: Handler’s latest Netflix special Revolution just came out this past December and ...
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Created on 20 January 2023
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Kehlani Sounds Off On Latest Album "Blue Water Road," Coming Out As A Lesbian, And The Role Motherhood Plays In Their Life ...
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(Music)
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In 2019, Kehlani welcomed daughter Adeya, who they co-parent with friend and former partner, musician Javie Young-White (yup—he’s previous BUST “Boy du Jour” Jaboukie Young-White’s brother). Kehlani ...
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Created on 31 August 2022
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Netflix Movie Purple Hearts Is A Love Story For The Apolitical and Privileged
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(Movies)
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... differences are intertwined with theirs and their loved ones’ identities. Cassie’s mom came to the US as an undocumented immigrant, and Luke loves a nice secure border. Cassie is non-white, Luke defends ...
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Created on 11 August 2022
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Before Nirvana And Soundgarden, A Young Black Performer Named Tina Bell Was Making Grunge Rock But You Have Probably Never Heard Of Her.
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(Music)
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... to define the scene, white men dominated, and women were few. And Black women? If the most common version of history is to be believed, there were none. But that version is wrong.
Bam Bam, formed in ...
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Created on 10 August 2022
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3 New Feminist Titles That Examine Women's Place In Civilization And Society: BUST Review
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(Books)
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... toward greater gender equality. Among the club’s members were the writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan Glaspell. While the group initially consisted solely of privileged white women, it eventually ...
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Created on 11 July 2022
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Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
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(Movies)
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... who, for generations, remained captive long after the Emancipation Proclamation was decreed. Many of the families were passed from white family to white family, laboring under a peonage system, hoping ...
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Created on 08 April 2022
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Watching "Tall Girl 2" While Black: Just How Much Of A Struggle Is Being Tall, Anyway
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(Movies)
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... white, blonde, conventionally pretty, and has two loyal friends. But even then, Jodi’s life is seemingly miserable because of her height—she is envious of every girl who isn’t tall, even her sister, and ...
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Created on 02 March 2022
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Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
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(Books)
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... represented, I DID see my Whiteness, and many other privileged facets of my identity, something many other children don’t get). At eight years old, I was writing in my diary about my weight being something ...
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Created on 25 February 2022
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Bitch, The Legendary Queer Music Icon Is Back With New Album “Bitchcraft” After a 9 Year Hiatus
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(Music)
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... put me in classical music, which I am very lucky that I have that training. I did that all the way through high school, but then, it's also very restrictive and you are playing the music of dead white men, ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... to Filipino Americans in search of their roots, which is an important endeavor considering the wide-scale and systemic whitewashing of Phillipine culture that is frequently found in American literature. ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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The New "Karen" Halloween Costume Has Many Questioning The Meme-ifying Of Everyday Racis
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(General)
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... white women who thrive off racist microaggressions. If you’ve ever seen a white mom steer her kid away as a Black man walks past, then you probably know the type.
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Created on 07 October 2021
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12.
We've Got a Long Way to Go: The Gossip Girl Reboot Promised Diversity, but Served Up More of the Same Old, Same Old Instea
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(TV)
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... especially when you consider the all white main cast of its 2007 predecessor. Backlash for this choice in casting was definitely heard and there has been an obvious and mostly successful effort at fixing ...
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Created on 17 August 2021
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Everybody Skate: Photographer Lanna Apisukh Highlights Female and Queer Skateboarders in New Photo Project
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(Arts)
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... Seattle is very white, there are some Asians out there, too, and it's becoming more of a diverse city. But, I think New York City is just like a melting pot of people. And they're all gathering togethe ...
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Created on 10 August 2021
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White Women Are Performatively Crying In A New TikTok Trend And It's Problematic as Hel
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(Entertainment)
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A new TikTok trend in which white women fake cry on camera is prompting Black people to point out the disturbing historical precedents of white women faking tears.
The trend borrows a concept from The ...
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Created on 25 June 2021
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Shannen Doherty Calls Out Hollywood’s Beauty Standards And The Lack of Representation for "Women Who Embraced their Face" In A Makeup-Free Selfi
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(Feminism)
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Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned to social media to speak out about Hollywood’s strict beauty standards, and to share her thoughts on embracing her natural beauty.
She posted ...
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Created on 09 June 2021
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Rollerskating is Back! And Skate Queen Lola Star is Here to Share All Her Tips to Get You Started
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(Living)
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... founded in 2001, in action
But rolling along right beside this white history of skating has been a vibrant Black legacy that never faded. During the civil rights uprisings of the 1960s, segregated rinks ...
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Created on 05 May 2021
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Sexiest Leading Man Regé-Jean Page Bids Netflix's Bridgerton Farewell, Fans Mourn the Los
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(TV)
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Season two of the saucy period piece "Bridgerton" will continue without Simon Basset, Duke Hastings, played by everyone’s favorite sex symbol, Regé-Jean Page.
The Official "Bridgerton" page announced ...
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Created on 02 April 2021
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18.
Looking At The Groundbreaking "Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians," Decades Later: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... to get off your chest this morning?
I didn't really get to tell you what I think is wrong with representation. In our media today, we're still disproportionately representing straight, white, affluent ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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5 great female-focused French films to watch tout suite!
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(Movies)
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When picturing French women, many of our brains conjure up images colored by stereotypes of chic, young, white women smoking cigarettes at sidewalk cafes with airs of cool detachment. The French stereotypes ...
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Created on 08 February 2021
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You Know The Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Meet Her Antithesis.
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(Entertainment)
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... the complications that come hand-in-hand with being a woman.
Top photo: Sam Taylor/Netflix
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