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Crip Drag No More?

March 20, 2010 at 4:39pm

Are you counting down the days until Glee returns for a second season (23!) or are you groaning at the mere mention of a show you hoped would be wiped from the national memory once American Idol came back on the air and satisfied the public urge to see young people engage in petty competition and sweaty vocal gymnastics?

Whichever camp you fall into, you may remember the amount of...

Raising Trouble: The Pink and Blue Project

by Liza Featherstone

March 20, 2010 at 12:34pm

Artist JeongMee Yoon was inspired to create "The Pink and Blue Project" when her five-year-old daughter only wanted to wear pink, and to play with pink objects.

I Can Has Feminizm?

by Kelsey Wallace

March 20, 2010 at 12:30pm

File it under “Where have you been for the past 26 years?,” and cross-reference it with “How on earth do you have a career in news?” (you have files for both of those, don’t you?): Glenn Beck came out this week as being decidedly against Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”. Apparently, the song doesn’t send the patriotic message he’s always thought it did. Really,...

Raising Trouble: Is My Four-year-old a Budding Hate Criminal?

by Liza Featherstone

March 19, 2010 at 11:49am

"I want to shoot Iggy*," Ivan often tells me. He and his friends want to shoot Iggy, he says, because "we don't like princesses." Iggy is a boy in my son's preschool class who wears dresses to school – often bringing several, as he may want a new look by midday -- and likes to play princess with the girls.

Why does my son have violent fantasies about this kid? It's disturbing, to say...

The Biotic Woman: What the Hell is a Femivore?

by Brittany Shoot

March 19, 2010 at 11:39am

I mentioned over the weekend that I was a little too miffed after reading the terribly myopic piece in the New York Times Magazine last weekend, "The Femivore's Dilemma," to write about it then. The internets move quickly, but I figure a few days late is better than never. Since my time here is quickly drawing to a close, I figured I'd revisit the piece because it really deserves some...

Reproductive Writes: Sexed Up: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

by Holly Grigg-Spall

March 19, 2010 at 11:27am

Leonore Tiefer is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with an international reputation as a lecturer, author, activist and theorist in the field of sexuality. She has written widely about the medicalization of female sexuality and heads up the New View Campaign, which is a grassroots network...

Bitchtapes: Cover to Cover

by Kjerstin Johnson

March 19, 2010 at 8:39am

Wrap your work week up with an *extra special guest Bitchtapes!* Misty, a Bitch mag reader and winner our subscription contest last month for a Bitch goody bag and a shot at Bitchtapes, has handpicked a great selection of covers side-by-side with their original. Here’s Misty’s mix in her own words:

My choices are 5 original songs and 5 covers (though as I created...

Heather Cassils in Out: Kissin' Gaga and Pushing Envelopes

by Kjerstin Johnson

March 18, 2010 at 12:36pm

While the blogosphere is still wrapping their head around the epic Telephone video, Out Magazine got a hold of Heather Cassils, whose prison-yard smooch with Gaga is one of the most talked about portions of the video. A long-time performance artist, Cassils went to the "Telephone" audition on a whim, and the kiss she and Gaga shared was completely unscripted. While her interactions...

Douchebag Decree: DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN EDITION

by Kelsey Wallace

March 18, 2010 at 11:20am

Someone should make a bumper sticker that reads So many douchebags, so little time. I’d buy it. Every week when the Douchebag Decree comes around, there are too many douches and it’s almost impossible to determine who deserves the honor most. This week, we have two very strong contenders, which is why we need YOU to vote for your (least) favorite in a DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN. Two...

New and exclusive: Enlightened Sexism excerpt, and an interview with author Susan Douglas

by Kjerstin Johnson

March 18, 2010 at 10:05am

Susan Douglas’s seminal 1995 book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up with the Mass Media explored how woman see and are seen in pop culture, tracing feminism in pop culture from the 1950s and ’60s through the 1980s. Her newest book, Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work is Done, revisits the subject of women’s representation in the mass...