Books
Safe and Seen: Leave Potter Nostalgia behind in Favor of Trans Authors
It’s heartbreaking to learn that one of your icons is transphobic.
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Collective Softening: Jenara Nerenberg Seeks to Empower Neurodivergent Women
A flawed medical system leaves women with neurological differences, such as ADHD and autism, overlooked and misunderstood.
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BitchReads: 17 Books Feminists Should Read in June
When all else fails, we still have pop culture to give us comfort, but right now, even that doesn’t seem as if it’s enough.
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Three Lives Intertwined: “A Burning” Challenges Islamophobia and Political Neglect
The violence of the crowd and the violence of poverty don’t simply happen; they’re created and maintained by the decision-making of those in power.
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Bethany C. Morrow Rewrites the Siren Song
There’s no way to opt out of oppression and dehumanization, and no way to opt in to the power majority.
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Intentionally Hidden: Mia Mercado’s “Weird but Normal” Honors Shame
“The idea of female sexuality is scary to a lot of people.”
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Without Condition: In “Fairest,” Meredith Talusan Dreams of Freedom from Others’ Perception
“My gender and race reflected on each other like a dizzying hall of distorted mirrors.”
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Eating the Poison: “Sin Eater” Turns Shame into a Superpower
The most important thing is what you think of yourself, even if you’re in a terrible situation; that kind of self-worth is where everything else begins.
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There Is an Art to Showing up—and Rachel Wilkerson Miller Has Mastered It
“You have to take care of yourself first. And that doesn’t make you selfish.”
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Girl Likes Girl: Lindsay Sproul Queers the Mean Girl in YA
Lindsay Sproul spoke to Bitch about crafting a shitty lesbian teen character.
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