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Racy Thoughts: Of Modern Families And Hot Tamales

In this week's episode of Modern Family, "The Kiss," Gloria dreams that her dead grandmother wants her to connect to her roots by preparing traditional foods, despite the fact that, just last episode, we saw Gloria cooking up a shit ton of empanadas. No matter, we need a plot device! And food is a... Read more »

Douchebag Decree: James O'Keefe

Yesterday CNN broke the story that O'Keefe had tried to punk them just like he punk'd all those evil advocates for the poor, only this time he failed miserably. O'Keefe told CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau that he wanted to meet with her... Read more »

Feministory: Luisa Capetillo

What do you know about Puerto Rican feminists? Not enough, right? Me either, which is why this week's Feministory features a crucial feminist of the United States'... Read more »

Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: With You I'm Born Again

Welcome to Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey’s Anatomy, a roundtable on Grey’s Anatomy featuring Snarky’s Machine, Tasha Fierce, Everett Maroon, Redlami, and s.e. smith. This week’s Grand Rounds is hosted by Snarky’s Machine, so, without further ado, let... Read more »

On Our Radar

Covert missive from Bitch HQ, bringing you the best and brightest from our travels on the interwebs this week. Read more »

It Gets Better

Gay high schoolers have a pretty rough go of it. Bullying, harassment, and feelings of isolation are all too common for a lot of gay teens, and many of them live in situations where they don’t have access to queer-friendly organizations. Last week, a gay high school student in Indiana named... Read more »

Behind the Curtain: Defining Horror in "Catfish"

[Warning: MASSIVE SPOILERS for the movie Catfish FOLLOW. It will be much less fun to watch if you have read the spoilers. However, if you don’t plan to see it, have already had it spoiled and/or don’t care about spoilers, read on.] Read more »

Douchebag Decree: Johns Hopkins University News-Letter

Once, twice, three times a douchebag for Johns Hopkins... Read more »

Bibliobitch: Fairy Tales Retold

Once upon a time, in an era that feminists called the "second wave," there was a group of women writers who thought that Western European fairy tales were pretty fucked up. Fascinated by this fucked-up-ness, the women decided to retell the stories in order to explore and combat the ancient -isms... Read more »

Size Matters: Taking Up Space

For ELLE magazine's 25th anniversary issue, they featured four different 25-year-old actresses on four different covers of the magazine. One of those actresses is Gabby Sidibe. This choice naturally brought out the fatphobes decrying her health and questioning her level of attractiveness before... Read more »

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