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Sexual Inadequacy: t.A.T.u. and Synthetic Queerness

by GarlandGrey
June 2, 2011 at 10:07am

It is the same as when we acknowledge that the Spice Girls were a marketing tool to sell watered-down empowerment to teens that may have accidentally caused some people to believe in “Girl Power” as a personal concept and might have positively impacted their lives. I will be forever grateful for the slow sex jam “2 become 1” for reminding me to “be a little bit wiser” and “put it on,...

Bibliobitch: Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

by Lindsay Baltus
June 1, 2011 at 11:41am

Alissa Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls is a collection of bizarre and wonderful stories about the difficulty of bodies and the possibilities that arise when their inhabitants transcend them. Nutting, who is the managing editor of the awesome Fairy Tale Review, paints a series of women deviants with irresistible fairy-tale simplicity, creating loveliness and magic in...

Revenge of the Feminerd: Libraries, Lesbrarians, Censorship, and Equality

by Jarrah E Hodge
June 1, 2011 at 10:16am

Looking into libraries for this post I decided to talk to my former colleague Tara Robertson. In 2009 Tara put together a group called the Lesbrarians to take part in the Vancouver Dyke March. Last year they had about 35 lesbian, bisexual, and queer women who worked in libraries, archives or other information organizations, as well as writers and library lovers. We met when we both worked at...

Political InQueery: Let the 2012 Games Begin

by Everett Maroon
June 1, 2011 at 9:55am

It seems like only six months ago we were talking about the 2010 midterm elections. Oh, wait. I suppose the 2010 midterm elections were only a little more than six months ago. At any rate, the early campaigning for the 2012 gubernatorial election is underway. When I brought up the idea of guest blogging about this summer’s candidates to Bitch’s editors, Osama bin Laden was still at...

Takin

by Mandy Van Deven
May 31, 2011 at 12:45pm

In my last post I wrote about a few of the problems I’ve observed regarding the way anti-street harassment blogs and the media construct “perpetrators” of harassment. In this post I want to build on those thoughts by bringing in their construction of “victims” as well. Collective Action for Safe Spaces asked in the comments of my first post of this series for an analysis of the...

B-Sides: Lykke Li Brings the Drama On Tour

by Deb Jannerson
May 31, 2011 at 11:39am

Lykke Li is on tour! Read on for my experience of the Swedish musician’s performance in Portland this weekend.

Revenge of the Feminerd: Geek Peeves

by Jarrah E Hodge
May 31, 2011 at 9:48am

Today I list my top five feminerd annoyances, including the lack of LGBT characters on Star Trek, sexist comics at The Oatmeal, and “chainmail bikini”-type video game costumes for women.

 

Bitchtapes: Going Places

by Kjerstin Johnson
May 27, 2011 at 2:03pm

Whether you're leaving town, taking a drive, or just moving the eff ON, here's a mix that will have you covered no matter where you're going! Track list after the jump.

On Our Radar

by Deb Jannerson
May 27, 2011 at 1:34pm

Friday is linkday!

  • Bitch Leadership Council member and Feminist Coming Out Day organizer Lena Chen shares her experiences writing a popular sex blog as a college student on Salon.
  • RH Reality Check passes on a video of parents of a killed gay soldier speaking out for marriage equality in Minnesota.
  • Marcia Herring evaluates Degrassi’s surprisingly (and...

Electro Feminisms: Kemistry and Storm, DJ Duo

by Emily McAvan
May 27, 2011 at 1:15pm

DJ duos are rare, and female ones even more so, so I can’t help wondering if it was this very fact that kept drum n bass duo Kemistry and Storm working in the scene for so long. In individualistic economies that run around (male) auteur geniuses, two women perhaps have a better chance of surviving institutional sexism together.

Read on for more!

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