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Projects to watch: Gay Genius comic anthology
Image by Edie Fake
Did someone say 120 perfect-bound pages of comics by queer artists?... Read more »
Political InQueery: When Elections Matter
The U.S. presidential election in 2008 generated a turnout of voters
not seen since the late 1960s. More than 63 percent of the eligible
electorate cast votes for President, amounting to more than 128 million
votes. If these 2010 midterm... Read more »
Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: Superfreak
This week on Grey’s Anatomy, spiders and virgins and condoms, oh my! Find out what the Grand Rounds bloggers think about it after the jump, and sound off with your own thoughts. Here there be spoilers!
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"Who gave you the right?": Indian sex workers talk back to filmmakers
Not that I would expect post-modern, transnational feminist film work to come out of the slimy “it’s not misogyny/racism, it’s ironic!” Vice-magazine’s video site, VBS.tv, but the thirty-minute documentary... Read more »
Horror Show: Women Horror Directors to Watch
The conventional wisdom is that women don’t want to be scared—or enjoy scary movies only insofar as the terror gives them the opportunity to snuggle up to male companions, as Entertainment Weekly pointed out in a 2009 piece. This... Read more »
Music Matters: You can't match this rapper / actress
I have a very long-standing one-sided love affair with Lauryn Hill. It goes back before the Fugees, even.
(Lauryn Hill, “The Sweetest Thing”)
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Political InQueery: Election Messes
There's a three-way race for the US Senate in Florida. An unemployed veteran who lives with his father is up against an almost-certain opponent in South Carolina. A candidate in Delaware gets more press for things she said in 1999 than in this race. Two long-time Republicans are running as... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Lou Dobbs
This week’s Douchebag Decree goes to a man who used his post at CNN as a platform to rage against “illegal aliens” to the American public. If that wasn’t douche-y enough for you, it has now come out that this same man has been employing undocumented workers for years to tend to his... Read more »
BiblioBitch: A Child's Life and Other Stories
In keeping with our current Make-Believe issue this week's BiblioBitch features A Child's Life... Read more »
Racy Thoughts: <i>Glee</i>'s Magical Friendship
Regular readers of Bitch know by now that Glee, while addictive and entertaining (if you try and tell me you didn't make a heroic attempt at recreating the choreography from "Safety Dance" alone in your room, I'm going to straight up call you... Read more »
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