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Bust (magazine)
Encyclopedia
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-based women's lifestyle magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
. It was founded in 1993 by Debbie Stoller
Debbie Stoller
Debbie Stoller is a New York Times best-selling American author, publisher and feminist pundit whose work includes magazines as well as books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York....
, Laurie Henzel, and Marcelle Karp
Marcelle Karp
Marcelle Karp, a.k.a Betty Boob, , is an American feminist writer, editor, and television director and producer.She worked as a television producer and director for Lifetime, Fox, and HBO, and has written for Spin, Details, and Jane magazines.In 1993, Karp and Debbie Stoller produced the first...
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Content
Bust covers musicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, fashion
Fashion
Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
, art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, crafting, sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
and news
News
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...
from an independent ("indie"), Third Wave Feminist
Third-wave feminism
Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but often marked as beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present...
perspective.
History
Debbie StollerDebbie Stoller
Debbie Stoller is a New York Times best-selling American author, publisher and feminist pundit whose work includes magazines as well as books. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York....
, Laurie Henzel and Marcelle Karp founded BUST after meeting at Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
company Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
in 1993. The trio wanted to create a new, positive, outspoken women's magazine for their generation and started the then-zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
by photocopying and stapling issues themselves after work.
Editor-in-Chief Debbie Stoller named the magazine BUST, because it was "aggressive and sexy and funny". While BUST had the connotation of "breaking through and busting stereotypes", she also liked that "it was a title that could belong to a men's porn magazine". The tagline is "For Women With Something To Get Off Their Chests."
As the company grew, BUST went national and its circulation grew, and in 2000 the founders sold the company to Razorfish Studios. Stoller and Henzel bought back the magazine in 2001.