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Picking on Pinterest, Life on Mars (Hill), a Q&A with Cheryl Strayed, and G-Spotting: Read Articles from the Elemental Issue!
If you subscribe to Bitch, our brand new Elemental issue is on its way to your mailbox. (If you don’t subscribe you can fix that right now. Subscribe!) While you... Read more »
RetroPop: Ellie Goulding's "Lights" and Emily Dickinson's Dark
For today’s installment of RetroPop, the groove-friendly series in which I invite you to join in on my mashing of lady-driven Top 40 pop songs with great female works of art from the past, I suggest you flip the switch. Turn out those desk lights, turn off your overhead chandeliers, snuff... Read more »
True Blood: Sunset
Just one episode left in this season of True Blood, and everything’s appropriately off the rails.
Exile in Fairyville.
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Sm{art}: The Summer of Nikki McClure
As summer stretches its legs in the Pacific Northwest, Nikki McClure’s calendar is helping me count down the months. The cut paper artist seems to be everywhere now: on bookshelves, greeting cards, and fabulous... Read more »
Bon Appetit! 100 Years of Julia Child
Today would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday. Though the legendary cook, author, and pop culture personality died in 2004, her delicious (feminist!) legacy lives on.
Happy Birthday! Photo by Arnold Newman/Getty Images
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WTF Files: "Planned Bullyhood"? Really, Karen Handel? REALLY?
<img src=”http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8424/7784110586_73f8b145af_o.jpg” alt=the cover of Planned Bullyhood, which features a ripped pink ribbon” align=”left” hspace=”10” />You may recall former Susan G. Komen executive Karen Handel from... Read more »
RetroPop: Is the Dude in P!nk's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" Just a 2012 Version of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights?
Welcome again to RetroPop, where we mash up lady-driven Top 40 tunes with the work of great female artists from history and explore what they have in common, maybe elevate some readers’ respect for Billboard hits, and revel in some great women writers in the process. Your reactions,... Read more »
Games On! Fight Like a Girl
In the aftermath of the Olympics, ending as it did with a whimper rather than a bang thanks to Friday’s disappointing closing ceremonies, the impact of the past two weeks is only just starting to sink in. It marked... Read more »
Bridal Party: In Support of Ceremony!
We spend a lot of time in the handful of decades that we exist in this world being told things and telling things. But there are comparitively very few moments when we allow our pretenses to drop and we come together to share something honest, and complex, and for many of us a little (or a lot)... Read more »
RetroPop: Madonna, Adrienne Rich, and Pussy Riot
And now for something with a bit more gravity than usual here on RetroPop: Punk and Real World Politics and Prison and the Queen of Pop. Oh, and amazing Adrienne Rich poetry.
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