Latest Articles

Women in Publishing: What's the Real Story?

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 3, 2011 at 12:32pm

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts recently released several large pie charts comparing how women and men are published in some of the largest literary magazines—who’s reviewing books, whose books are being reviewed, and who’s being interviewed. Out of 40 charts, women outnumbered men on only two of them.

Sex and the Fat Girl: What's it All About?

by Tasha Fierce
February 2, 2011 at 1:35pm

Hello, dear Bitch readers. I'm Tasha Fierce and I write the stalled blog Red Vinyl Shoes. If you don't know, I wrote the Size Matters blog series for Bitch last fall. Now I'm back with another column dealing with fat—this time, we're talking about sex and sexuality as it relates to being a fat girl. I feel like talking about sex and fat is something that...

No Kidding: Jennifer Aniston, We Hardly Know You

by Brittany Shoot
February 2, 2011 at 12:06pm

Is there any famous childless woman whose fertility is as scrutinized as Jennifer Aniston's? In the past five years, since she and Brad Pitt split up so he could go build a global village with Angelina Jolie (a topic worth an entire blog series of its own if you ask me!), how many times do you think Jen has had to defend her womb, her supposed selfishness, what is perhaps simply her...

Race Card: SNL

by Nadra Kareem Nittle
February 2, 2011 at 11:39am

Saturday Night Live’s “Bride of Blackenstein” skit did black women no favors. In this blaxploitation-like spoof of The Bride of Frankenstein, which aired Jan. 30, we learn that even a black chick created from scratch in a laboratory is demanding, bossy and built like an extra from the “Baby Got Back” video. Starring SNL guest host Jesse Eisenberg as Igor and musical guest Nicki Minaj as...

It's Your Move: Subscribe to Bitch! Save Money! Feel Awesome!

by Kelsey Wallace
February 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

Each week, thousands of people visit this website (hi there!), but many of them haven't yet subscribed to Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, our print magazine. Does this describe you? Do you enjoy Bitch Media's online offerings but have yet to know the joy of getting a shiny print edition—full of new articles that can't be found on the website of course—delivered right to your mailbox?...

No Kidding: What We Talk About When We Talk About Not Having Kids

by Brittany Shoot
February 1, 2011 at 11:34am

I’m here to talk about social pressure to procreate, media attention on multi-child families, tabloid obsession with childless women and pregnancy, and voluntarily female sterilization.

Adventures in Feministory: Rosa Parks

by Katie Presley
January 31, 2011 at 2:24pm

This Adventure in Feministory takes us to Montgomery, Alabama, in December of 1955.

Chua on This: Busting the “Tiger Mother’s Model Minority Stereotype

by Dakota Kim
January 31, 2011 at 12:11pm

The problem with both Chua's article and the publicity that it's netting her is that it perpetuates a model-minority stereotype that does actual young Asian women no favors.

Race Card: The New York Times Realizes Mixed People Exist

by Nadra Kareem Nittle
January 31, 2011 at 11:18am

Breaking news: the New York Times has discovered mixed people. Did you know that the number of racially mixed families in the US is growing? Or how about that some mixed kids feel pressured to choose one race? And get this—multiracial people find it annoying to be asked, "What are you?"

From the Library: 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader

by Bitch Media
January 28, 2011 at 2:20pm

The Bitch Media Community Lending Library brings you our very first book list, made up of 100 young adult novels that every feminist should add to the stack of books on their bedside table. Here at the library we've been re-reading some of our old standbys and finding new feminist favorites. If you're looking to buy a book for your favorite teenage girl or just looking to cuddle up with a...

Pages