Slate launched its new Web site, Double X, yesterday. The online magazine is written for women by women, and some powerful writers, actors, and politicians, including Margaret Cho, Amy Bloom, and Sandra Day O'Connor, helped get the party started by sharing some of their childhood dreams in a feature called The Secret Dreams of Famous Women. Who knew that Cho dreamed of being Wonder Woman or that O'Connor envisioned her future on a cattle ... Read More

Joshua Katcher (above) or the Discerning Brute will be making an appearance and doing a demonstration at this weekend's BUST Spring Fling Craftacular . In association with the Farm Sanctuary , Katcher will be demonstrating how you can replace everyday food items with vegan ones, thereby helping the environment and helping yourself become healthy. Joshua will be doing 'Vegan Cooking 101', a lot of Q and A, specifically addressing each ... Read More

I loves me some Wanda Sykes. She performed at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday and now she's gettin' mad slack for some controversial material. Heck, you can hear some laughs. Now the White House is mum on the situation. What do you think? --Regina info: msnbc.msn.com vids: 1, 2 via ... Read More

M.I.A. catching up on some schoolin' from none other than the master, BUST's own Debbie.  Do you think she's taken up knitting to make something for her cutie pie baby boy?  via jezebel, photo getty ... Read More

This week is National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (May 10-16), which aims to raise awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding and promote support for breastfeeding, in the UK. I was just about to ask, 'What about the US?' when I researched further and saw that the UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe. photo via guardian.co.uk I'm guessing the US falls under the World Breastfeeding Week and Awareness Month ... Read More