Books
Outcasts No More: Anne Helen Petersen’s New Book Celebrates Unruly Women
In exploring how any ambient space around female celebrities is quickly overfilled with criticism and condemnation, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud primarily focuses on the unforgiving celebrity media culture, with its unyielding gaze and greed for clicks.
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A Q&A with Kristen Sollee About Unleashing Your Inner Witch
Each page offers illuminating examples of women and femmes resisting the patriarchy and embracing their inner power.
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
What is a hookup, anyway? That’s exactly where Lisa Wade comes in with her new book, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus.
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BitchReads: 17 Books You Should Read in June
Summer is an ideal time to read a good, engrossing book. Here are Bitch’s picks for June.
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Surviving the Dystopia: What “The Handmaid’s Tale” Teaches Us That “1984” Can’t
The protagonists in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984” were set on different paths from the moment they were born into societies that defined their freedoms through their respective gender identities.
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Let's Get Crunk: Women in Hip Hop Get A Magnum Opus in “The Crunk Feminist Collection”
The Crunk Feminist Collection operates as a guidebook for navigating how to care for yourself, your sisters, and world more or less in that order.
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Science is Sexist: Slaying Male Superiority in “Inferior”
Inferior challenges the idea that there are fundamental differences between the way men and women’s brains are “wired.”
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Fandom is Feminist: Queering Boy-band Obsession in “Grace and the Fever”
Grace and the Fever follows high school senior Grace Thomas as she meets Jes, a member of her beloved Fever Dream.
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Poetic Resistance Against Everyday Transphobia, Racism, Ableism: A Review of "When the Chant Comes"
Within its pages, When the Chant Comes delivers profound, often gut-wrenching meditations that explore what it means for Barrett to navigate life in the United States as a disabled, pilipinx-amerikan, transgender queer.
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Resistance Narratives: Lidia Yuknavitch on Joan of Arc, Bodies, and Reimagining the Love Story
Intersectional feminism is rising, cracks and fissures are emerging, blind spots are being illuminated, failures examined, possibilities getting born. Good. Bring it.
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