Books
Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior: Why Roxana Shirazi
In the many years that I've been editing book reviews, I've never been
pitched so hard on a title as I was for Roxana Shirazi's The Last
Living Slut: Born In Iran, Bred Backstage. The book's PR trumpeted that
it "is sure to be one of the most-talked-about and controversial books
of the year…the... Read more »
Sm{art}: Eve Gilbert
She’s been praised by R. Crumb and compared to Bukowski, but she still doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. She’s rather elusive, but she has a reason: “My paintings are the only place I feel... Read more »
Size Matters: Just One Last Donut
The majority of my life has been spent inhabiting a body deemed too fat. While I spent my early childhood and elementary years as a "normal" sized child, I soon started the upward climb towards "fat" and when I reached that particular mountaintop, my body built a house, bought the furniture, put in... Read more »
Bibliobitch: The Lacuna (Frida Redux)
Today's Bibliobitch is a follow up to Kjerstin's Sm{Art} tribute to Frida Kahlo from last Wednesday. While Barbara Kingsolver's newest book, The Lacuna, isn't exclusivly about Frida, Diego Rivera and their circle of compatriots and compadres,... Read more »
Mad World: Can't Buy My Love Virtual Book Club
Last week, we had our first-ever Mad World Book Club meeting, and it was great! As many of you know, we discussed Jean Kilbourne’s Can’... Read more »
Snarky's (Classic) Cinemachine: Unpacking Sean Young
Hollywood seems to reserve a special hell for female actors who do not play nice, and the most enduring example–for me anyway–is Sean Young. Young’s... Read more »
Mad World Book Club: Can't Buy My Love
You know how every once in a while someone comes into your life–be it in person or in book, music, film, or some other form–and totally blows you away because they’re saying everything you’ve been thinking, but in a way that is smarter and better than you’ve been thinking it?... Read more »
Queer Questions Straight Talk: An interview with Abby Dees
Attorney, activist, author (and Bitch Media supporter!) Abby Dees is traveling to our fair city of Portland tomorrow to give a reading from her new book Queer Questions Straight Talk at In Other Words Women... Read more »
Snarky's Cinemachine Classic: Strange Days
When Kathryn Bigelow nabbed the Best Director Oscar in March for The Hurt Locker, critics such as The Guardian’s Richard Adams wrote perceptive analyses of the film’s erasure of Iraqi voices. However, in addition to Adams’ pointed critiques there was a bit of concern trolling as to the... Read more »
Meat is for what now? Marketing veganism the wrong way
You’re looking at the cover of a new book by John Joseph, New York native and author of The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon. Besides grimacing, my other first reaction to the book was Malori Maloney’s assessment of Skinny Bastard -... Read more »
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