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Preacher's Daughter: Willow, Xander, and the Prayer of St. Francis
Season six is my favorite season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I like the dark themes, and I like seeing Willow grow up and mature as a result of her grief. (I also like the musical episode.) Recently, I was talking over Buffy when my friend, Bitch contributor... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Reebok EasyTone's Butt Claims Are Full of Shit
Remember Reebok’s line of EasyTone shoes? The ones with the dry-heave-inducing commercials that claim to “make your boobs jealous” by toning your... Read more »
Bibliobitch: Who Is Ana Mendieta?... Now at BitchMart!
The latest book to grace the shelves of Bitch’s virtual bookstore is Who is Ana Mendieta?. Part comic book, part eulogy, and part social critique, this book is a... Read more »
Isn't He Lovely: Hypermasculinity Behind Bars
If there was ever a marginalized male group directly and powerfully affected by the masculinity construct, it’s jail and prison inmates. No, I didn’t just finish up an Oz marathon (honestly, I haven’t seen a single episode of the prison drama, so there will be no show... Read more »
Sm{art}: Lorna Simpson
Brooklyn-based artist Lorna Simpson produces visual works that both isolate and confront conventional views on identity, ethnicity, and history. A majority of her recent... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Homage or Cultural Appropriation?
Don’t Explain, a collaborative effort between blues revivalists Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, hit stores yesterday. It features a range of... Read more »
CNN's "Gender Identity: A Change in Childhood"
Yesterday, CNN did a story on the Gender Spectrum Family Conference, a “unique gathering dedicated solely to the... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: Is My Son Gay?
I doubt that many people will feel the need to shell out good money to find out if their son is gay using such suspect methods. But I imagine some desperate young men will buy it themselves and be taught they can change their sexuality by suppressing their gender identity. Some young gay men will... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Jessie de la Cruz
“The average farmworker lived 49 years—compared to 70 years for the white majority in the United States. A migrant worker’s baby was twice as likely to die as babies of other people. Farmworkers were three times as likely as other people to get tuberculosis, three times as likely to get... Read more »
WTF Files: IKEA's M
Hey men! You know what’s worse than a trip to IKEA with your wife or girlfriend? NOTHING. Because the torture of walking up and down the aisles of the Swedish housewares store is apparently nigh unbearable for men (seriously, picking out throw pillows is SO HARD), an IKEA in Australia has... Read more »
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