“The blood’s not real,” said a staffer at the Brooklyn headquarters of Bust, the independent, feminist lifestyle magazine and website. Bust is a rarity, having kept its cult following while staying afloat in a media sea of bankruptcies, mergers and buyouts. Founding editors Debbie Stoller and Laurie Henzel started the magazine with a Riot Girls sensibility in 1993. “We started Bust because women’s magazines were crap and made people feel bad about themselves,” Ms. Stoller, 55, said from her office, located in Sunset Park’s Industry City. “I wanted to make women feel better and make a different kind of women’s magazine.”

Source: New York Times October 31, 2018 19:10 UTC