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BitchTapes: Ladydance

by Deb Jannerson
April 15, 2011 at 4:44pm

Freestyle, house, reggae, electronica… what do the subcategories of dance music have in common? Terrific female artists, for one! Welcome to a '90s-heavy BitchTape for a party, a pre-party, or just an empty office! Track list and space for your own jams after the jump.

The Shondes Talk Heartache, Activism, And What It Means To Be A Disgrace

by Kjerstin Johnson
April 15, 2011 at 3:48pm

Not many bands mix post-punk with feminism, with Jewish heritage. At least, no one does it like the Brooklyn-based four piece the Shondes.

Alyx Vesey, who’s a Bitch contributor and runs the blog Feminist Music Geek spoke with the Shondes—Louisa, Temim, Eli, and Fureigh—at this year’s South By Southwest Festival. Feminism and activism is an important part of how the Shondes...

On Our Radar

by Deb Jannerson
April 15, 2011 at 1:17pm

Time for a link exchange! Here’s a glimpse into what we’ve been reading:

  • Hopping mad about the misleadingly-named Independent Women’s Forum’s misinformation about the pay gap? Feministing tells it like it is.
  • Also at Feministing, check out this report from the 2011 Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference with video and quotes from the...

The Wedding March: The Princess Problem

by Kaite Welsh
April 15, 2011 at 12:08pm

At a time when young graduates struggle to find work, one former art history student’s patchy résumé shouldn’t be headline news. Unless of course, you happen to be Kate Middleton.

The Paul Reiser Show: A Somewhat Gender-Progressive Sausage/Snoozefest

by Kelsey Wallace
April 15, 2011 at 11:40am

If you, like me, were counting down the days until the next episode of Parks and Recreation on your Leslie+Ben=Love4EVA calendar, you may have ended up watching all of NBC’s programming last night by default (except for Outsourced. Does anyone actually watch that?). This means you saw the new NBC sitcom The Paul Reiser Show.

The Games We Play: Role-Playing Morality

by Brandann Hill-Mann
April 15, 2011 at 10:29am

I don’t go looking to video games for entirely accurate depictions of reality. It is an escapist hobby for a reason, as I think it is for most people. I enjoy getting away into a world of possibility and imagination. It probably explains my tendency towards RPGs. I want to enjoy myself. I want to be immersed in a story. Sometimes I want to be the hero. Sometimes I want to raze the ground...

Electro Feminisms: Ro

by Emily McAvan
April 15, 2011 at 10:08am

For a decade and a half, Roísín Murphy has been making smart, innovative, artsy electropop. Gaga who?

Read on for more.

Feminism in Focus: Women Filmmakers on Film

by Kjerstin Johnson
April 14, 2011 at 2:42pm

This past March, Women, Action, & the Media held several “WAM!-It-Yourself” satellite conferences in various cities exploring feminism and media. One component of this decentralized conferencing was spreading the conference ideas via the internet. Nist.tv (which I cleverly called “Feminism’s YouTube”) did a series called “Feminism in Focus: Interviews with Feminist Video Creators,”...

Douchebag Decree: Bret Easton Ellis

by Kelsey Wallace
April 14, 2011 at 12:44pm

OK, we’ve published plenty of posts here on Glee and how it maybe isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Many of us are not exactly what you’d call “fans.” We know the show has problems. We get it.

What we don’t get, however, is Douchebag de la Semaine Bret Easton Ellis’ recent tweets about the show. To quote: I like the idea of ‘Glee’ but why is...

Takin

by Mandy Van Deven
April 14, 2011 at 10:56am

When I was in college, I decided to try my hand at being one of those too-cool-for-cars biker girls who dons a punk rock sticker-clad helmet and a rolled up right cuff—the phase lasted approximately two weeks. A friend I had a jealousy-crush on had gone out of town for the summer and when she mentioned that she needed a place to stash her ride, I heartily volunteered to keep it. I’d...

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