Books
Bitch YA Book Club: Ash by Malinda Lo
For this month’s YA book club, Ellen Papazian asks Erin Blakemore, Jennie Law, and Jessica Stites what they thought about Ash by Malinda Lo. Add your own answers to Ellen’s questions (or come up with your own discussion points) in the... Read more »
BiblioBitch: Beauty Queens
Pageant competitors in a dire situation? It sounds like a recipe for an overly catty misogyfest (or, let’s be honest, a terrible porno). Instead, Libba Bray has crafted a complex, blistering satire that is, dare I say, one of the most explicitly feminist novels I have ever read.
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Douchebag Decree: Forty Beads
If you’re straight, monogamous, and female, Carolyn Evans wants to SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE! Her new book, Forty Beads, has “simple, sexy” advice: overcome the “libido gap” between women and men by having sex whenever... Read more »
#YAsaves, Ignorance Hurts: The <em>Wall Street Journal</em>'s Attack on Books
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal fired a shot heard around the literary world: a so-called book review by Meghan... Read more »
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Bringing you fine, feminist work from around the web!
Bitch YA Blogger Jessica Stites follows up on... Read more »
Bitch YA Book Club: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
For this month’s YA book club, Jennie Law asks Erin Blakemore, Ellen Papazian, and Nona Willis Aronowitz what they thought about Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott. Add your own answers to Jennie’s... Read more »
Bibliobitch: Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls is a collection of bizarre and wonderful stories about the difficulty of bodies and the possibilities that arise when their inhabitants transcend them. Nutting, who is the... Read more »
Revenge of the Feminerd: Libraries, Lesbrarians, Censorship, and Equality
Looking into libraries for this post I decided to talk to my former colleague Tara Robertson. In 2009 Tara put together a group called the Lesbrarians to take part in the Vancouver Dyke March. Last year they had about 35 lesbian, bisexual, and queer women who... Read more »
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Bitch Leadership Council member and Feminist Coming Out Day organizer... Read more »
Gay Genius Anthology For Sale at Bitchmart!
After interacting with MacArthur Genius Grant recipients at her school, Annie Murphy (author of I Still Live) began to wonder about what makes a genius. “Somebody just comes out of the blue, taps you on the shoulder, and gives... Read more »
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