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Stop calling your body 'midsize,' says Internet. But it's less clear about why you shouldn't use the t
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(Style)
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... bodies that do not normally get to appear in the pages of high fashion magazines, nor be considered part of the growing and influential plus-size movement. The account specifies that their focus is on ...
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Created on 29 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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... life. I survived a lot, yes cancer, but more than that. I embrace me now. Finally. Done with the perception magazines and Hollywood try to make us in to. I want to see women like me. Women like us."
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Created on 09 June 2021
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"Nothing That Restricts": Ashley C. Ford Gives Us A Peek Into The Practice That Produced Her Memoir: BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... within a family forever altered by her father’s incarceration. Here, she shares how she gets her many writing jobs done. –Emily Rems You write in a variety of different arenas—print magazines, websites, ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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The History of Capsule Wardrobes And How To Build One That Isn't Borin
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(Style)
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... a woman from day to night, office to party.”
Today, mainstream fashion magazines and websites publish an ongoing flurry of articles on capsule wardrobes. In January, Queer Eye fashionisto Tan France ...
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Created on 21 April 2021
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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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(Living)
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The creation of art from human hair, or “hairwork,” reached its peak in the 19th century. “Hairwork” instructions and patterns were often featured in shops, ladies’ magazines, and “fancywork” books, ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products As Birth Contro
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(Living)
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... as a vaginal cleanser. Agonized women were the focus of an aggressive advertising campaign placed within the pages of popular magazines promising “immaculate internal cleanliness,” while assuring readers ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Amy Poehler’s "Moxie" Is the BUSTiest Film of the Season—or Possibly Eve
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(Movies)
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... riot grrrl ’zines and music. Based on a YA novel by Jennifer Mathieu and directed by Amy Poehler (who also served as a producer and plays Vivian’s mom), the movie is a heartfelt exploration of growing ...
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Created on 03 March 2021
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Sarah Paulson on Tig Notaro’s Podcast Was Everything I Ever Wanted
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(Entertainment)
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... early ’90s that we learned we were creating some sort of representation for ourselves. Every time I listen to the podcast, I’m reminded that the young gay kid who tore all those magazines can rest easy, ...
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Created on 19 February 2021
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Good Bad Happy Sad's Latest Project Shades Brings Back The Youthful 80s Sound We've Been Dreaming
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(Music)
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... the group has mastered over the years, with Calderwood’s sax accentuating the dissonance and wooziness that play off the album’s deceptively sweet melodies. Yet Khan’s bright vocals and lyrical content ...
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Created on 11 January 2021
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You Go Girl: Why Traveling to Atlantic City during COVID Felt Safer Than Staying Home
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(Living)
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... stay—an enormous goblet of blue, boozy, fizzy, blue-raspberry-flavored craziness that smoked and bubbled like a cauldron and had jawbreakers and blue gummy bears floating amongst the ice cubes. The snaps ...
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Created on 28 September 2020
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Study Shows That COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects The Lives Of Mothers
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(Feminism)
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In the wake of COVID-19, daycares, schools and workplaces have closed down and most of the population has severely altered their day-to-day habits. For mothers, this has meant changes to their work-life ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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Is This Fake News?: The BUST Guide to Media Literacy
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(Living)
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... foods heavy in fats and sugars. Think of your media consumption the same way: You need a solid base of legitimate, relatively unbiased sources. It’s OK to consume junk media sometimes—gossip magazines, ...
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Created on 16 September 2020
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How These Women Cartoonists Shaped the Flapper Image in the Roaring ’20s
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(Arts)
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... recruited by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst when she was 21, moved to Brooklyn with her mother, and went on to illustrate for newspapers and magazines for almost 40 years.
The Hearst syndicate ...
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Created on 10 August 2020
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Meg Stacker King Celebrates The Joy And Power Of Motherhood In "We The Mamas
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(Arts)
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... for my portfolio review and acceptance. The day I was told by my portfolio review instructor that I wouldn’t make it, I went straight downtown to Barnes & Noble and sat for hours going through magazines ...
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Created on 23 July 2020
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Content Queen Sam Klein On Her Colorful Style and Quarantine Fashion
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(Style)
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... only goes for colors, but also prints and decades.
Where do you find fashion inspiration?
When I was younger I definitely looked more toward models in magazines. Since then I’ve done so much to avoid ...
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Created on 02 July 2020
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20 Years Later: Reflections From A Photographer Who Shot The Strokes, Sonic Youth, And More
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(Music)
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For the first time in 20 years, I have time to reflect on some of the pictures I have made: for bands, for magazines, for myself. This quarantine is affecting everyone in both individual and collective ...
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Created on 21 May 2020
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Madame Gandhi On Gender, Feminism, And The Radical Art Of Performing Sober: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... our own genres, our own businesses, our own magazines, whereby we control the standards of what we’re defining as successful or valuable. Because once femininity doesn’t connote lesser privilege than masculinity, ...
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Created on 08 May 2020
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5 Feminist Collectives for Women of Color Mobilizing on the ’Gram
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(Feminism)
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... this Latina collective is run by five artists, journalists, and educators from St. John’s University. Producing both ’zines and ’zine fests, the Mujeristas Collective is elevating Latinx voices that are ...
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Created on 04 May 2020
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5 Feminists On Twitter Who Make Quarantine Just A Little Bit Better
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(Entertainment)
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... will only get you so far. And frankly, with everything that’s going on, there has to be some happy medium between staying informed and having a distraction from all the craziness of the world. Luckily, ...
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Created on 08 April 2020
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10 Things That Happened in 2020 So Far That We Wish Were April Fools' Jokes
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(Entertainment)
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... home will help us deal with all the craziness of 2020 so far. P.S. please do not do some “fun” April Fools' joke about Coronavirus.
2020 has been bizarre horror after horror. Is the simulation breaking? ...
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Created on 01 April 2020
