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BiblioBitch: Beauty Queens
Pageant competitors in a dire situation? It sounds like a recipe for an overly catty misogyfest (or, let’s be honest, a terrible porno). Instead, Libba Bray has crafted a complex, blistering satire that is, dare I say, one of the most explicitly feminist novels I have ever read.
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Political InQueery: SCOTUS, Wal-Mart, and the Limits on the Rule of Law
In what I’ll call the executive summary of the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out the class action lawsuit alleging sex-based discrimination against the female employees of Wal-Mart, Justice Scalia writes that the plaintiffs must show evidence that the company operates under “a... Read more »
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We’re seeking a senior editor to join our staff in a part-time, but ongoing, capacity.
For more than 15 years, Bitch Media has published Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a quarterly magazine devoted to media- and pop-culture critique and analysis. Each issue of Bitch offers commentary... Read more »
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The disdain in many comments on street harassment is palpable and the message they hold is clear: if you’re a girl or woman who likes receiving overt sexual attention from men and boys in public, it’s because you lack the self-respect necessary to throw off the confines of external... Read more »
Political InQueery: Criticism & Obamockery
Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown (not to be confused with the football player) was yanked by GOP operatives at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans this weekend... Read more »
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When over 200 press outlets worldwide covered the street harassment hearing in New York City, the photo that accompanied the popularly distributed article depicted four... Read more »
Political InQueery: Reinventing the Constitution
“Pull out a map of Virginia and look where the abortion clinics are. That doesn’t make you mad?” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was speaking to roughly... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: Body Shaming is Not Sexy
I understand being firmly rooted in your own sexuality and there is certainly a limit to how comfortable I am being touched by people I’m not having sex with. But that isn’t what this is about. This is about making a joke at the expense of a real group of people. They could have just... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Forty Beads
If you’re straight, monogamous, and female, Carolyn Evans wants to SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE! Her new book, Forty Beads, has “simple, sexy” advice: overcome the “libido gap” between women and men by having sex whenever... Read more »
Sm{art}: Sophia Wallace: Not Your Typical Fashion Shoot
Sophia Wallace is a photographer living and working in New York City. Wallace uses photography and portraiture to challenge normative assumptions about gender, race, and heteronormativity. I could probably write a blog post on each of her series, the photographs are so striking. Instead, I’ll... Read more »
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