Books
Why Does Our Society Undervalue Domestic Work?
We just assume, in the United States and abroad, that there will be someone to do all of the cooking, all of the cleaning, all of the care work for very little pay or no pay at all.
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Sci-Fi YA Series Tankborn Imagines Caste, Class, and Skin Color in Dystopia
This month, the final book in Karen Sandler’s dystopian young adult sci-fi series Tankborn hits the shelves. I profiled the series last year on Bitch as part of a series on portrayals of ... Read more »
Comics for Break-Ups
Dear heartbroken people: I have some reading material for you. There are three great new graphic novels out this month that deal with break-ups, all of them digging into different moods and styles.
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Mass Market: Two Latina authors plot a feminist takeover of chick-lit
“You bitches are lucky to have a health clinic,” one of the girls said.“Hold up, ladies,” Marisol said. “Remember, you are not bitches,” she said. “You are hoes.”The women laughed.“Bitches are dogs,” Marisol said. “But whores are... Read more »
Katie Skelly Makes Great Psychedelic, Sci-Fi Comics.
Katie Skelly makes beautiful comics. Her work is part of a wave of comics authors who are breaking the Marvel model, making what I often think of as auteur comics.
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Popaganda Episode: 20 Years of Sister Spit
Feminist spoken word roadshow Sister Spit has been sporadically criss-crossing the nation for 20 years now, building community around radical writing, poetry, and films. The group started in 1994 as a Bay Area open mic night meant to... Read more »
Read the List of 2013's Most Frequently Banned Books
The Dayton Metro Library created this flag of the 100 most-challenged books from 1990-2000. Photo via Flickr.
On Monday of this week, the American Library Association released the list of ... Read more »
"Orphan Black" is the Sci-Fi Thriller I've Been Waiting For.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if the most popular sci-fi on television didn’t involve a ton of misogyny? And had real, complex female characters? I’m looking at you, ... Read more »
In Memoir "The End of Eve," Ariel Gore Breaks Down Myths About Moms and Daughters
Author Ariel Gore, the long-time publisher of Hip Mama, has a new memoir about the death of her mother.
Like many, people I discovered writer Ariel Gore when another mother handed me her beloved first edition of... Read more »
In "Under the Skin," Scarlett Johansson Subverts Her Vivacious Reputation
In most tales of alien infiltration, the extraterrestrial life force arrives heavily armed: death rays, mysterious pods, killer black ooze, and the like. In unsetting and surreal sci-fi film Under the Skin, Scarlett... Read more »
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