BUST is a bi-monthly United States-based women's lifestyle magazine. It was founded by Debbie Stoller, Laurie Henzel and Marcelle Karp in 1993. BUST covers music, fashion, art, crafting, sex and news from an independent ("indie"), New York-centric, post-feminist (or Third Wave Feminist) perspective.
Debbie Stoller, Laurie Henzel and Marcelle Karp founded BUST after meeting at Viacom company Nickelodeon in 1993 . The trio wanted to create a new, positive, outspoken women's magazine for their generation and started the then zine 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."