Books
Page Turner: Six Questions on Comics for The Big Feminist BUT
It’s the well-worn, short-yet-storied line that’s become nearly cliché: “I’m not a feminist, but…”—one that’s now some kind of standard midpoint in our culture’s endless wrangling about the F word. Now “I’m not a feminist, but…” is being re-examined via comics... Read more »
Rave On: Singer-Songwriter Joan Wasser on Outlaw Culture
“Rave On” is the Page Turner series that asks feminist writers, artists, musicians, activists, leaders, and scholars to talk about a book that completely rocked their world. Today we feature musician and singer-songwriter Joan Wasser, of Joan... Read more »
True Confessions of an Audiobook Worm
When I was growing up, one of my very favorite things was to have books read out loud to me. My mother (a total bookworm, thank goodness) read to my little brother and I every night, and it was the best thing ever. We’d beg for her to read just one more chapter of... Read more »
Page Turner: An Interview with Novelist Laurie Halse Anderson
This week we talk with author Laurie Halse Anderson, who’s written five YA novels, including the New York Times best-seller Speak, one of the most compelling depictions of the trauma of the interior space of a teenage sexual assault survivor. Anderson has been getting... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Viva Vita!
Vita
Sackville-West was a woman with 'high class' problems — but her story
is interesting nonetheless. Vita was, in addition to her default
socialite status, a writer of prose and poetry, an avid gardener,Bloomsbury Group associate and... Read more »
Bed, Bitch & Beyond: No Sex, Please, I'm "Wrinkly"
What happens when a popular columnist and writer pens a “refreshingly honest–and brilliantly witty–celebration of the joys of getting wrinkly?” Nothing good.
Don’t let the advance billing fool you–Virginia Ironside’s new memoir is a misogynist, anti-sex turd wrapped up... Read more »
Introducing the Bitch Media Community Lending Library!
What’s an office with over 800 page-turning books to do? Lend them out to the public, of course! That’s what we here at Bitch Headquarters decided to do after we realized that our 13-years-in-the-making book collection, covering topics such as feminist theory, media studies, art,... Read more »
Grrrl on Film-Lois Lane at the Movies: A Brief Herstory Part Two!
In Monday’s post I shared a very condensed herstory of Lois Lane’s appearances on film, as well as some clips of her filmic influences and contemporaries.
I know most people... Read more »
Page Turner-Rave On: Cristy C. Road on Assata: An Autobiography
“Rave On” is the Page Turner series that asks feminist writers, artists, musicians, activists, leaders, and scholars to talk about a book that completely rocked their world. Today we feature illustrator and writer Cristy C. Road on Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur.
I’m originally... Read more »
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