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Grab your bags, Portland, it's the spring clothing swap!

May 20, 2010 at 11:08am

Attention PDX-ers (that’s code for Portland, Ore. residents)! Don’t forget that next Tuesday is the semi-annual Bitch Clothing Swap! Note: Leslie Hall will not actually be present at the clothing swap. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a sequined leotard with your name on it.

This year we’ll be at the happening Jupiter Hotel at E. 8th and Burnside. It...

The Lady Is a Tramp: Safer-Sex Kit Survey Says...

by Andrea Plaid

May 20, 2010 at 10:29am

If you could bundle the perfect safer-sex kit, what would you put in it?

Travelling Saleswoman

by Thao Nguyen

May 20, 2010 at 10:21am

Folks Good Morning! Today marks my introductory blog post for Bitch, a publication I have such admiration and appreciation for, it has taken me several months to settle on what I might write about that would be worthy of the association. I decided to discuss my travels and travails as a touring musician, with a focus on the women’s advocacy work with which I am involved. There will...

Douchebag Decree: Caitlin Flanagan, our first Douchebag All-Star!

by Andi Zeisler

May 19, 2010 at 10:07pm

Sometimes a simple acknowledgment of douchery just isn't enough. Sometimes you have to step back and marvel at how consistent, how dedicated, how impressively shameless a person's commitment to being a total asshole is. And that's why Bitch has decided it's time to start recognizing those individuals as the All-Star douchebags they are. Practically, it just makes sense: We...

The Lady Is A Tramp: Auntiehood

by Andrea Plaid

May 19, 2010 at 2:51pm

…what the heck could I possibly tell him, being a bit of an outlier in my own family?

Perhaps it’s that exact status that allows me to be the perfect aunt.

You too can look like Cruella Deville with MAC's Venomous Villains Collection!

by Kelsey Wallace

May 19, 2010 at 1:46pm

By now, you’re probably aware of the Disney Princess Industrial Complex, an entire industry built on encouraging young girls to fantasize about being princesses and convince their parents to spend tons of cash making their tiara-clad dreams come true. Well, apparently the folks at Disney don’t want to stop at marketing their characters to young girls, because they are teaming up...

New issue, new articles! A hot sampling from the Action issue

by Kjerstin Johnson

May 19, 2010 at 11:16am

If you haven’t gotten the Action issue of Bitch yet, or if for some bizarre reason you’re not a subscriber, here’s three offerings from the magazine on our website. Read ‘em as a break from shorter pieces on the web, post ‘em to your various Twitter-book-pages, and leave your insightful comments, and all that fun tech-y stuff you can’t do with a paper copy.

And...

TelevIsm: The Numbers

by Rachel McCarthy-James

May 19, 2010 at 10:55am

Spoiler Alert! Don't say we didn't warn you...

Thanks to Liss for the screengrab!

Representation is not necessarily anti-racism, and Lost's framing and depiction of nonwhite characters is often violent and damaging. A pertinent example of this in the current, last season came two weeks ago in the episode "The Candidate", in which Sun, Jin, and Sayid–three out of four of the...

Tuning In: The healing power of rock on Degrassi: The Next Generation

by Alyx Vesey

May 19, 2010 at 10:01am

A look back at Degrassi: The Next Generation's season two episode "Shout," and how Paige Michalchuk uses rock music to work through the trauma of date rape.

The Young and The Feckless: Playing DJ for the Class of 2010

by J. Maureen Henderson

May 19, 2010 at 9:54am

The supermarket where I shop plays music of a certain vintage (which, as we've recently discussed, could be anything from last year's Billboard Top 40 to ditties from the War of 1812). The other day it happened to be Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop". As I browsed the selection of veggie sushi, I thought of how appropriate this particular song is for the commencement season (forget about Clinton...