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Notes on Camp: Soapbox Feminist Camp Wants YOU!
At Feminist Camp, there’s no bug juice, no panty raids, and no singing around a campfire, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an experience you’ll remember forever. Soapbox, Inc., the speakers’ bureau and training organization founded by activists and Manifesta authors... Read more »
10 Reasons to Support Bitch Media: We're Showcasing a New Generation of Feminist Writers and Critics
One of the things that we feel strongly about at Bitch, and always have, is that there’s no one monolithic feminism, but many feminisms, and even more voices that speak to that variety. And it’s been gratifying, eye-opening, and thrilling to work with and publish so many of these... Read more »
Heroine Addict: A Q&A with author Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno has had a busy couple of years. In 2010, she published her first novel, O Fallen Angel, followed by Green Girl a year later. Her latest book, the just-published Heroines, is a personal narrative woven with the rich and often overlooked history of a group of... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Gendering Codependency in When a Man Loves a Woman
When a Man Loves a Woman opens with one of the oddest (and, frankly, creepiest) meet-cutes I have ever seen in a movie: Alice (Meg Ryan), sitting at a bar in broad daylight (it looks like she’s just finished lunch), already wincing at unwanted attention from the guy sitting to her... Read more »
Backlot Bitch: In Defense of "Wreck-It Ralph"
There are movies you see once and you never want to see again. Other movies require multiple viewings in order to pick up on the subtext and subtitles. And then there are the enjoyable enough movies to leave on the TV over and over again just because they’re fun. Wreck-It Ralph... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Teri Fahrendorf and the Pink Boots Society
Last week I had the pleasure of talking with Teri Fahrendorf, who started the Pink Boots Society in 2007 after a road trip to check out breweries all over the country. Again and again, she said, she encountered women who worked in craft breweries who had never before met another female brewer, let... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Jean Rhys
In 1966, when Jean Rhys was 76 years old, her novel Wide Sargasso Sea was published. The novel, a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, is told from the perspective of the Caribbean Creole “... Read more »
Bibliobitch: Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
I first heard of Danielle Evans (the author, not the next top model) when Thea Lim excerpted her blog post “Smart Conversations about MFA programs” for its critique of privilege on... Read more »
BitchTapes: Take it and Make it Your Own
Take it and Make it Your Own from BitchTapes on 8tracks Radio.
Sometimes, you see something you like and you just know you have to have it for your... Read more »
Backlot Bitch: The Trouble with James Bond and Skyfall
This tepid installation of the longest-running movie franchise in history still peddles woman’s bodies as disposable, continues the tradition of white-valued imperialism, and features a mark of homophobia. Shocked? You shouldn’t be.
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