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Douchebag Decree: Birth Control Backlash
It’s a little embarrassing to call out Fox News on the Douchebag Decree, because that channel is basically a love letter to this column: “Dear Douchebag Decree, I will... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Surfing Mystery Writers and the Cop-Criminal Buddy Relationship
From Agatha Christie’s forgotten sporting accomplishments to male bonding between criminals and cops.
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Stage Left: The Long-Promised Post on Liking Problematic Media
I am going to be talking about something that pretty much everyone I know has struggled with: feeling like a bad feminist/activist/organizer/person because you like a piece of media that has really problematic elements. Lord knows this is an internal battle I’ve fought, and continue to fight.
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Keep Bitch in Print: Because a Magazine is Forever
I’ve always been a magazine and zine hoarder, and have a personal archive of, well, way too many. The first-ever issue of Spin (1985, with Madonna on the cover); the British music papers, like Melody Maker, that chronicled the rise of Riot Grrrl well before the United States... Read more »
We're All Mad Here: Fighting Stigma Through Humor
Last year in Canada, there were two nation-wide campaigns to fight mental health stigma.
The first focused on the financial cost of mental health. It was launched by one of our major banks, and had a slick advertising campaign full of dark colors and statistics. There were multi-page discussions... Read more »
Sm{art}: Angela Singer
Angela Singer puts buttons, beads, and a barrage of sparkly things on dead animals to make art.
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Keep Bitch in Print: Because Print is Beautiful
Times are changing for illustrators.
Traditional print markets are dwindling, but even as publications struggle, there is a growing appreciation for beautifully printed materials…stores are brimming with letterpress cards, silkscreened wares, and archival prints of artist works. Illustrators... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: Ambiguously Gay Wizards
I’ve noticed a trend in the content attributed to and depicting the three male Harry Potter leads—Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, and Daniel Radcliffe—and the running joke that they might secretly be gay for one another. This idea isn’t original to them, of course. The male leads of... Read more »
Stage Left: On NINE and Manpain
I like Nine. I like it for its score, and I like it for the traits an observer can impart to the women. There are many female characters, and the silver lining to their being incredibly underdeveloped is that it is simple to impose one’s own headcanon, to imagine their internal lives... Read more »
Murder, She Blogged: Why Detectives?
I’ve come to the half-way point of the Murder, She Blogged series, and half way through my time guest blogging here at Bitch, so I just wanted to take a brief pause to address the question: Why detectives?
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