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The Long Goodbye: (Sung in the tune of Peter Tosh) Veganize it!

February 25, 2011 at 12:20pm

Oprah has made clear throughout this season that because it's the last, she only wants to cover topics and guests of real significance to her—I applaud her for using her platform to raise awareness about the benefits of a vegan diet. That being said, this episode was a real mixed bag.

Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: Not Responsible

by Greys Bloggers

February 25, 2011 at 12:05pm

This week on Grey’s Anatomy: problem storylines galore! Pregnancies, relationships, everyone telling everyone else what to do, and not a whole lot of anyone listening to anyone else. Grey’s wants to set us up for sweeps with a bang, apparently, and we’ve got a lot of thoughts about it after the jump.

Read My Bitch: Jennifer K. Stuller Reads “The Buffy Effect”

by Kjerstin Johnson

February 25, 2011 at 11:59am

Jennifer K. Stuller isn’t your average Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan–she’s a charter associate member of the Whedon Studies Association. In this episode of Read My Bitch, the podcast for Bitch magazine fans to read out loud a favorite article from the archives, Stuller revisits Rachel Fudge’s article “The Buffy Effect: or, a Tale of Cleavage and Marketing,”...

On Our Radar

by Deb Jannerson

February 25, 2011 at 10:56am

Need some awesome links to start your weekend? Thought so!

First, the great news, in case you didn't hear: Obama declared DOMA unconstitutional!
Feministe links to the full list of events for the Walk for Choice. Mark your calendars for Saturday! At Feministing, Ann Friedman talks about her experience on MSNBC talking about Planned Parenthood and points to ways to speak...

Race Card: Anti-Abortion Billboards Target Black Women

by Nadra Kareem Nittle

February 25, 2011 at 10:09am

There's been an uproar in New York all this week about an anti-abortion billboard in Soho. The billboard featured a little black girl with the message, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Launched by anti-abortion group Life Always, the billboard served as a controversial way to bring attention to the fact that black women have a disproportionately high abortion...

The Bitch High Five: Female Characters (Fictional or Real) Whom We Miss Now That They're Gone!

by Kelsey Wallace

February 24, 2011 at 11:53pm

Each month in our nifty newsletter (sign up on the homepage if you haven’t already), we’ll be polling Bitch staffers and readers on their top five in different categories and posting the polls and results on the Bitch blog. This month, it’s female characters we miss now that they’re gone. So c’mon, give us five!

poll by twiigs.com

Do you miss these...

Douchebag Decree: Phyllis Schlafly & Suzanne Venker: The Flipside of Douchiness

by Kelsey Wallace

February 24, 2011 at 12:00pm

This just in! Career antifeminists Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker blame feminism for the nation's divorce rate (among other things)! In their upcoming book The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—and Men Can't Say, Schlafly and Venker posit that feminists, with our love of divorce, our hatred of men, our general negativity, and our blatant duplicitousness, have...

No Kidding: Fit to be Tied? Talking with Dr. Rebecca Kluchin

by Brittany Shoot

February 23, 2011 at 1:11pm

Does the history of sterilization have links to modern consent forms? How has forced sterilization intersected, if at all, with the fight for women's right to be voluntarily sterilized? Rebecca M. Kluchin, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of history at California State University, Sacramento, and author of the book Fit to be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America...

BiblioBitch: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

by Deb Jannerson

February 23, 2011 at 12:34pm

I noticed the book immediately: a colorful, unmistakably travel-esque picture topped with a billboard that evoked both Broadway and freeway diners, staring out from a new display in my much-loved young adult section. But the best part? The display was for LGBTQ fiction.

Race Card: Beyonc