BUST is a trailblazing feminist lifestyle brand that has been connecting bright, cutting-edge, influential young women since 1993 — which means it was doing intersectional feminism before the term entered mainstream vocabulary and will probably still be doing it long after the trend cycle has moved on. The magazine, website, podcast, and events programme address a wide range of women's interests — celebrity interviews, music, fashion, art, crafts, sex, news — with a stance that is fierce, funny, and unapologetically feminist.
What has always set BUST apart from both mainstream women's magazines and more academic feminist publications is its tone. It is not lecturing you. It is not selling you a lifestyle. It is having a conversation with you — the kind of conversation that moves seamlessly from political analysis to pop culture to craft projects to sex advice, because that is how actual women's lives work. The magazine treats its readers as intelligent, curious, politically aware, and entirely capable of holding multiple interests simultaneously.
Three decades is an extraordinary lifespan for any independent publication, and BUST has survived because it understood from the start that feminism is not a niche interest but a lens through which to see everything. The world has caught up with that insight. BUST was there first.