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Giving new meaning to the term bike 'racks'
This pains me to write, because I adore David Byrne. The man is incredibly inspiring, always active, never resting on his laurels, a
great social critic and just plain rockin' (his music made up a big chunk of my 'growing-up' soundtrack). So I was pretty bummed by one of the bike racks he... Read more »
Defenders of the semicolon unite!
Our beloved punctuation mark is under attack for being 'girly'...
H/T to Broadsheet for linking to the Boston Globe article:
The credit probably belongs to Trevor Butterworth, who in 2005...wrote a 2,700-word essay on the semicolon in the Financial Times. Butterworth, who had worked in the... Read more »
Small gifts matter
Revisioning and strategic planning are hard work for an organization. We at B-Word/Bitch have been thinking about this process for months, even years for some folks, but last Friday we formally began this journey and I have got to say, it is going to be a pretty great adventure these next few... Read more »
Douchebag lawyer and his douchebag lawsuit:
So New York lawyer Roy Den Hollander once married a young woman he met while working as a private investigator in Russia. Once Den Hollander moved himself and his foreign bride back to New York City, though, she took a job as a stripper and proceeded to dump him within months.
It's a sad little... Read more »
Ad interventions
"Basically, I just want people to see what it would be like if plus-size models were represented similarly to slim models." -- Kristin Lou Herout.
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Girls make media
Passing on the news of a recently-launched website dedicated to honoring and mobilizing girls' media production called Girls Make Media. Creator Mary Celeste Kearney is hoping the site will become a resource for girls, as well as media educators, researchers, and others dedicated to amplifying the... Read more »
Bitch in Salt Lake City
Back to the most recent Bitch fundraising trip...
I'd never
been to Salt Lake City before, so I was excited to check it out. After
a long drive in from Denver, I was even more excited to be greeted by a
plate of vegan cookies, freshly-baked by our host, Courtney Maguire
(thanks, Courtney!).... Read more »
Ever wonder why we're called B-Word?
In my shock at seeing a Wal-Mart ad on the Mother Jones website, I neglected to include a link to the article I was searching for in the first place, which is the story of the California Secretary of State's office rejecting the name Bitch Publications on the grounds that it was obscene.
Bitch,... Read more »
Mary Harris Jones must be turning in her grave
I've been debating whether I should post this for a few days, but I've decided I must.
Earlier this week, I went to the Mother Jones website to find an old article I wanted to post here. But my search was interrupted when I saw an ad for... Read more »
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