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Articles from the Fame + Fortune Issue Now Online!
Hey Bitch readers! Now you can find four articles from our new Fame + Fortune issue to read and... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Attention Shoppers! The Problems with Celebrating Memorial Day by Shopping
Memorial Day, a day of remembrance in the US for fallen soldiers, is also a day of shopping for many Americans—at least, according to TIME magazine it is. The... Read more »
Lady Business: New Female CEOs, Coming Right Up
A recent Catalyst survey of Fortune 500 companies found that in 2011, women accounted for 14.1% of executive officer positions. They are just 7.5% of top earners in those position, but there are apparently a lot of women being groomed for leadership in the “corporate pipeline.”
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Adventures in Feministory: Althea Gibson, the First Black Tennis Player to Win a Tennis Grand Slam Tournament
In honor of the French Open this week, it felt appropriate to highlight the achievements of the female singles winner from 56 years ago: Althea Gibson. Long before Venus and Serena started making waves in the tennis world, Gibson was... Read more »
Mad Men: The Other Woman
What an episode! We laughed, we cried, we called for Pete Campbell’s head on a platter, and then we cried some more.
Seriously, somebody kill this guy.
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On Our Radar: S.E. Cupp, Community, and Cabinet of Wonders
When we weren’t wasting spending time on our shiny new Pinterest boards, this is what we were reading this week:
Libby Copeland on... Read more »
End of Gender: Pink For Boys? Why "Sex-Appropriate" Colors Are Arbitrary
Back in the day, infants of all genders wore white frocks—white, because it could be bleached of any infant spewage, and frocks, because it’s easier to wriggle a baby into a dress than into britches. ... Read more »
The Tales Of Feminist Conferences in India, and of Ice.
It is no surprise that India is a Big Brother-esque figure in South Asia, especially, in histories of nation-building (the Partition, the 1971 Bangladeshi War of Independence, the decades under IPKF in Sri Lanka are just the tip of the iceberg), as researchers, we carry these legacies on our bodies... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Inga Muscio's Rose: Love in Violent Times
Inga Muscio’s Rose: Love in Violent Times is a heart-wrenching journey, with ups and downs, depressing moments mirrored by inspirational ones. It is beautiful, and though it largely continues with Muscio’s usual themes of feminism and antiracism, I would file this book under “... Read more »
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