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Star light, star [Susie] Bright!
Writer, teacher, audio-show host, performer, and all-around badass feminist Susie Bright is speaking this Tuesday as a continuing part of the Bitch Feminist Perspectives in Pop Culture lecture series!
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Alice Walker on <i>Democracy Now!</i>
On today's installment of Democracy Now, you can catch Alice Walker reading her open letter to Barack Obama, originally published on The Root. Videocast and transcript after the jump.
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Sad: Mama Miriam Makeba dies
We would be remiss if we let the day pass without mentioning the death of “Mama” Miriam Makeba.
I’ll admit, I didn’t know much about Makeba until Brian here at the Bitch offices mentioned her passing. Makeba was a South African anti-apartheid activist and singer, who had a hit in the... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory!
Each week, a few brave souls here at Bitch jump into our feminist time machine and travel back, back, back in time to pay homage (femage?) to a feminist pioneer of the past. Join us this week as we journey to the year 1637 and gain a bit of feminist insight into the life of Massachusetts Bay... Read more »
"Douchebag"
We figured there would be some reaction to our use of the term "douchebag." Just to be clear, we did not choose the term lightly. When we had our blog meeting last week, many terms were bandied about for our new weekly awards, including "schmuck", "putz," and a few others.
We decided on douchebag... Read more »
Weekend Rhymes
Whoo-hoo, it's the weekend! I know, I know, the 40-hour work-week is a patriarchal construct, so celebrating weekends is merely playing into the system—but tell that to my bar tab...
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Nobody's Baby Now
The Netherlands may be known throughout the world for their quaint wooden shoes and their progressive drug and prostitution laws, but soon they might be known for something else: forced sterilization of women. You read me right, a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament will, if passed,... Read more »
Random election thoughts for ponderin'
Well, yay, Obama won, setting off more nationwide tears than that Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Maps." I'll admit, I cried too (Barack, they don't love you like I love you). An African-American president—it's pretty amazing, and it's a good thing, and we all have reason to be psyched. It's a huge step... Read more »
Prop 8...
Before I go any farther, let me say I'm glad Obama won. I feel like if queer folks don't say that first, there will be a backlash against our community that will be painfully unprecedented. So, again I say: I am glad Obama won.
I'm disgusted to live in California, a state that refuses to give me... Read more »
I know it's Election Day, but Blair masturbated on last night's episode of Gossip Girl!
I don't know how many of you sharp feminists out there watch the CW's Gossip Girl, but those of you who don't missed out on a rarely televised occurrence last night: female masturbation.
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