Books
Bibliobitch: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Books that use food as a gateway to emotion can be pretty unbearable (hi again, Eat, Pray, Love). Thankfully, Aimee Bender's new novel is more like one of the fairy tale rewrites I wrote about a few weeks ago than one of those... Read more »
Projects to watch: Gay Genius comic anthology
Image by Edie Fake
Did someone say 120 perfect-bound pages of comics by queer artists?... Read more »
BiblioBitch: A Child's Life and Other Stories
In keeping with our current Make-Believe issue this week's BiblioBitch features A Child's Life... Read more »
Anida Yoeu Ali: "Mistaken for Muslim"
Via Muslimah Media Watch, Anida Yoeu Ali’s “Mistaken for Muslim” is a powerful video that juxtaposes diverse images of Muslims, and the artist herself, with a poem relentlessly detailing... Read more »
Bibliobitch: Fairy Tales Retold
Once upon a time, in an era that feminists called the "second wave," there was a group of women writers who thought that Western European fairy tales were pretty fucked up. Fascinated by this fucked-up-ness, the women decided to retell the stories in order to explore and combat the ancient -isms... Read more »
Push(back) at the Intersections: Women in the Fall Television Forecast
We’ve got five new shows coming up with women on the creative team and I thought, as I wind up my time here, that I’d delve into them to see what we have to look forward to this fall/spring, and to see what kinds of women-led television make the brutal cuts of pilot season.
Two of them... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath is the most famous woman poet of the 1950s. She's probably one of the most famous poets of the 20th century. And she was a pretty good poet. Her work is honest, heartwrenching, and chock-full of angst and guilt and daddy issues. But she's also famous for her bummer life story (... Read more »
Push(back) at the Intersections: Stieg Larsson, Feminist Hero?
What makes a work feminist? It’s worth answering that before we begin. In some circles, depicting strong female characters resisting sexism is feminist. That’s not enough for me. To qualify as a feminist work, I think that something actively needs to include an anti-oppression message,... Read more »
BiblioBitch: Packing for Mars
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a lecture given by Mary Roach. Many of you have probably read her books Bonk and Stiff, and thus you know she is a thorough researcher whose tastes run a bit on the weird side. As she put it, she likes to... Read more »
I'd Know You Anywhere: A Q&A with Laura Lippman
You bookworms out there probably don't need us to tell you about Laura Lippman. You already know that she's an award-winning novelist, best known for her crime stories (which feature awesome female... Read more »
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