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BitchTapes: Fireplace Grooves
Music good for: eating bowls of soup, drinking hot cider or cocoa from an oversized mug, cuddling with your pet(s), knitting scarves, drinking wine or hot toddies. Track list after the jump!
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On Our Radar: Air Force Discrimination, Fatphobia, and Change.org
Here’s a round-up of what we’ve been reading this week!
Roseanne, really? Yesterday Roseanne Barr let transphobic tweets flow. Monica at Trans Griot shares her disappointment and goes over... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Ann Coulter vs. Richard Mourdock—It's a Douche-Off!
My what a douche-y week! In desperate times like these, we feminists have only one option…. A douche-off! In one corner, we have Ann “R-word tweeter” Coulter, an awful... Read more »
Mompaganda: Shell's By-Moms-For-Moms Shill
Mothers have long been used in advertising to sell everything from toothpaste to cars—even cigarettes. What’s new is the present-day strategy: PR firms devise campaigns that appear to be grassroots movements or “spontaneous” trend pieces. This kind of marketing is referred to as “Astroturf”... Read more »
See it Now: Middle of Nowhere explores the limits of loyalty and loneliness
The tenderness of black women growing in self-love and self-possession is rare in modern cinema. If we are young, we are exploited (see: Precious) if we are grown and in love, black female characters are consumed with body-racking pain (see: For Colored Girls, Monster’s... Read more »
Backlot Bitch: Disney's New Princess Problems
So is Disney’s newly minted Princess Sofia meant to be Latina, or not? And if she is, what does that mean in the context of the Disneyverse?
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Trick or Treat or STOP IT WITH THE OFFENSIVE COSTUMES ALREADY: What Not to Be For Halloween
Like a pap smear or tax season, it happens every year: People wear racist and sexist costumes on Halloween. Hell, maybe you’ve done it yourself! You didn’t know what to be for that one party so you jammed some feathers in a headband and... Read more »
3 Reasons Bitch is Not Newsweek: Subscribe with a 20% Discount Today!
As you’ve probably heard, Newsweek magazine is going to all digital, publishing their very last print edition on December 31, 2012. We’re used to reading the obituaries of print magazines, and fielding questions about the future of print. Here are three reasons why you... Read more »
Why I Didn't Run the Caitlin Moran Interview
Maybe two weeks ago you read on Twitter, or Tumblr, or the Guardian that British writer Caitlin Moran said some messed up stuff on Twitter. Maybe last week you saw that Bitch magazine was involved, and that I had “killed” an interview with Moran after her tweets. Watching this story spread from... Read more »
Kitchen Sister: A Q&A with Cooking in Heels Author Ceyenne Doroshow
Positive images of transgender women in American culture have been few and far between. Television shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and films like TransAmerica have increased visibility of the MTF community over the years, but there is still a lot of progress to be made, and... Read more »
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