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On Our Radar

by Katie Presley

January 7, 2011 at 11:41am

Happy first week of a new decade, y'all! Here's what we've been reading at Bitch HQ as we dive into the 20-teens.

Gender Focus has up a nice list of their favorite things of 2010. Like an NPR Top Ten list, but with more True Blood and trans rights!
Feminists With Disabilities (FWD) announced that it has ceased production, and will be maintained as an archive and blogroll...

The Long Goodbye: What's it like to work for Oprah?

by Jennifer Tress

January 6, 2011 at 5:27pm

Working for Oprah is fun! And rewarding. If only that pesky personal life would go away…

Douchebag Decree: Andrew Wakefield and his Fake Research Data

by Kelsey Wallace

January 6, 2011 at 1:15pm

Douchebag Decrees around here are often on the tongue-in-cheek side, but every once in a while someone's actions are so heinous that even we can't make puns about them. This is one of those times. According to an independent study published by the British Medical Journal, researcher Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper linking autism to the MMR vaccine was "an elaborate fraud." That's right;...

Beyond the Panel: An interview with Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl

by Rachel McCarthy-James

January 6, 2011 at 10:56am

Hello, and welcome to Bitch’s new weekly series on webcomics, Beyond the Panel! I’m Rachel McCarthy James, sometimes known as RMJ. You may remember me from my previous guest-blogging stint here last summer, TelevIsm, or my blog, Deeply Problematic. This time, I’m here to write about webcomics and the people who create them by interviewing cartoonists and comic...

Bibliobitch: Of Lamb

by Lindsay Baltus

January 5, 2011 at 1:55pm

I'm super excited for Of Lamb, the new book from poet Matthea Harvey and artist Amy Jean Porter, so although it hasn't been published yet I thought I'd share a sneak peek. The book is one long erasure poem by Harvey accompanied by beautiful and weirdly funny illustrations by Porter. More about erasure, plus illustrations from the book, after the jump!

Iconography: Jane Austen, a Contemporary Kind of Lady

by Chally Kacelnik

January 5, 2011 at 12:44pm

Jane Austen has quite the hold over the contemporary imagination. Not only are her books still bestsellers almost 200 years after her death, but there's a veritable industry around adapting and appropriating her work. From The Jane Austen Book Club to Jane Austen's Fight Club, Miss Austen's influence reaches more widely than ever. So how did these books about young women searching for...

The Long Goodbye: Meditations on Giving

by Jennifer Tress

January 5, 2011 at 12:14pm

Is giving nobler when done quietly? Oprah’s last season and the mixed messages that tie giving with getting.

Offensive Commercials: Miller Lite “Man Up” Showdown!

by Kelsey Wallace

January 4, 2011 at 1:14pm

Since I frequently share the TV with someone who loves NFL football, I've been watching a completely different set of offensive commercials as of late. (Typically I see the offensive ads directed at women, you know, the ones that make us feel like even even our armpits aren't pretty enough? Football ads are much dudelier but make me just as stabby, as it turns out.) Though ads during NFL games...

Iconography: Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Clashing Worlds in 19th Century England

by Chally Kacelnik

January 4, 2011 at 9:55am

Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South (1855) and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) are two of my favorite novels. They're both set in 19th century England, and written by women, so those are two big ticks right there. But one of the main reasons I like them both so much is that they're not about navigating comfortable worlds of privilege so much as they are about the clash...

Adventures in Feministory: Maya Angelou

by Katie Presley

January 3, 2011 at 4:10pm

Through Maya Angelou’s grief, she started writing what would become perhaps the most famous series of autobiographies published in English; a series without precedent and which seems impossible to follow.