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1. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Urge All Americans To Fight Back Against Trump

(Living)

... ions and Customs Enforcement is, as Clinton says, "running wild accross the country." They're terrorizing communities, with federal agents forcefully separating children from their parents and even conf ...

Created on 17 September 2018

2. Henry VIII's Third Wife Jane Seymour Was Much Less Boring Than You Think

(General)

... e the worst for one second The idea of signing a document declaring her parents' marriage invalid broke Mary’s heart. After all, her mother had spent years fighting for that marriage's validity, losing  ...

Created on 10 September 2018

3. The Legacy Of "The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill," 20 Years Later

(Music)

... l, family. If it wasn’t gospel, it was considered blues in our household. It wasn’t until I was about sixteen that I knew that my parents meant “secular.” There was something about Lauryn’s music, thou ...

Created on 07 September 2018

4. Shannon Purser Takes The Lead With "Sierra Burgess Is A Loser": BUST Interview

(Movies)

...  comes into her life and she reevaluates who she is,” Purser tells me over the phone from her parents’ house in Georgia. “It’s so real to feel like you need to change for somebody else, and the beauty o ...

Created on 05 September 2018

5. How Alt-Folk Musician Cassandra Jenkins Uses Tarot And Mythology

(Music)

...  I dreamt my grandparents' rotary phone was ringing in their kitchen. When my grandmother answered, she handed me the phone and said, “Honey wants to talk to you.” I held it to my ear, and instead of a v ...

Created on 04 September 2018

6. "Crazy Rich Asians" Is The Hilarious And Heartwarming Romance We All Need Right Now

(Movies)

... lso a character. Second, it captures the delicate dynamic between parents and children and the tough love some Asian Americans experience from their parents. Lastly, Crazy Rich Asians is so dang funny. I'v ...

Created on 27 August 2018

7. How Civil Rights Activist Mary McLeod Bethune Revolutionized America

(Feminism)

...  Seriously, this woman… just everything   Born in 1875 to former slaves, Mary was the youngest of 17. Despite her parents' endless hard graft, they struggled to live day-to-day. And it didn’t ...

Created on 27 August 2018

8. Summer Camps Have A Toxic Masculinity Problem

(Feminism)

... to inform the parents, potentially going against their campers’ wishes or even putting them in danger. Camp traditions often enforce particular gender norms that are harmful for everyone, but can be ...

Created on 23 August 2018

9. These Kung Fu-Trained Buddhist Nuns Teach Nepalese Girls Self-Defense

(Living)

... made us more confident to do it again.” Yeshe has been a nun for 12 years. She originally ran away from home to join the order after her parents forbade her to do so. They were worried that the life of ...

Created on 23 August 2018

10. Asia Argento Reportedly Sexually Assaulted A 17-Year-Old Boy—And The #MeToo Movement Includes His Voice, Too

(Feminism)

... that later in the day, as his parents drove him home, he began to feel “extremely confused, mortified, and disgusted.” In the documents, he described the assault as a traumatic sexual battery that damaged ...

Created on 20 August 2018

11. How "Female Python" Carol Cleveland Became A British Comedy Legend

(TV)

...  Carol!!! We are not worthy! Born in 1945, Carol caught the performance bug at a very young age. After all, both her parents were actors, and so from the age of just two, Carol was out booking modelling ...

Created on 20 August 2018

12. "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Star Lana Condor On The Return Of The Rom Com: BUST Interview

(Movies)

... l where you’re just hanging out with your family at night. Oh my god, I never went to parties in high school. Literally just ate food with my parents! There have been a lot of romantic comedies on Netfl ...

Created on 17 August 2018

13. 9 New Books By Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List

(Books)

... that men do it because they enjoy the fear they provoke in women. Sharisse Tracey describes being raped by her father at 13 and how the family’s counselor suggested her parents could make up for the horrific ...

Created on 15 August 2018

14. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives

(Feminism)

... being people who are oppositional to the whole American system, and not wanting to look like adults and our parents, who we saw fucking up the world. And it was also when that Carol Gilligan book came ...

Created on 15 August 2018

15. How “Crazy Rich Asians” Star Constance Wu Is Using Her Platform To Change Hollywood

(Movies)

... immigrant parents who wanted us to seek stable (ahem, lucrative) careers, and the arts weren’t encouraged as a path to success. She nods, mentioning that when she visits colleges to speak to Asian American ...

Created on 15 August 2018

16. Modern-Day Mystics On "Cassandra Syndrome"

(Living)

... her parents, King Priam and Queen Hecuba, believed her, the city of Troy would have reigned supreme. Unfortunately, her family had believed her to be mentally unsound for many years and there was no hope ...

Created on 15 August 2018

17. Brooklyn's tubafresh Is Representing For The Black Queer Community: BUST Interview

(Music)

... ot. I am a brass player, I play tuba which is a big instrument mostly played by white men. Mostly white men play classical music because that's what their parents could afford, but a lot of people of  ...

Created on 14 August 2018

18. The Story Of Chavela Vargas, Barrier-Breaking Singer And Queer Icon

(Music)

... parents and was raised by relatives in the countryside. Chavela wanted more than country life. She bided her time until she could move to a big city. As soon as she hit her teens, she packed up all her ...

Created on 10 August 2018

19. Joëlle Jones Is The First Woman To Both Write And Draw Catwoman

(Books)

... ones explains. Unlike Batman—who when he lost his parents decided to seclude himself, spend billions of dollars on military-grade equipment, dress like a bat, and go out to catch bad guys—Selina Kyle ch ...

Created on 09 August 2018

20. Inside Planned Parenthood’s National Conference With The Student Activists Who Have Had Enough

(Feminism)

... who was able to obtain an IUD when her abusive partner and parents obstructed her attempts to use birth control pills and condoms. The students discussed how to push through the emotional response to ...

Created on 08 August 2018