Activism
Calling All Publishing Interns!
We’ve got a publishing internship opening on the business side of Bitch in early July at our Portland office and would LOVE it if you could help us spread the word (or apply)! We’re accepting applications now, and will be doing interviews later this month on a rolling basis until the... Read more »
Monster High, Reluctantly Revisited: Kindness and Confusion
Remember our Douchebag Decree recipient, Monster High? Prepare yourselves, because things are about to get weird. Mattel has announced a partnership between Monster High and the anti-bullying... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: t.A.T.u. and Synthetic Queerness
It is the same as when we acknowledge that the Spice Girls were a marketing tool to sell watered-down empowerment to teens that may have accidentally caused some people to believe in “Girl Power” as a personal concept and might have positively impacted their lives. I will be forever grateful for... Read more »
Revenge of the Feminerd: Libraries, Lesbrarians, Censorship, and Equality
Looking into libraries for this post I decided to talk to my former colleague Tara Robertson. In 2009 Tara put together a group called the Lesbrarians to take part in the Vancouver Dyke March. Last year they had about 35 lesbian, bisexual, and queer women who... Read more »
Takin
In my last post I wrote about a few of the problems I’ve observed regarding the way anti-street harassment blogs and the media construct “perpetrators” of harassment. In this post I want to build... Read more »
Revenge of the Feminerd: Geek Peeves
Today I list my top five feminerd annoyances, including the lack of LGBT characters on Star Trek, sexist comics at The Oatmeal, and “chainmail bikini”-type video game costumes for women.
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On Our Radar
Friday is linkday!
Bitch Leadership Council member and Feminist Coming Out Day organizer... Read more »
Fuze Wants to Be in Your Club
This commercial campaign leaves me conFUZEd. Read on for discussion of genderless fruit, fat-shaming and the marketing of rebellion.
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The Long Goodbye: Oprah's Last Shows
Oprah’s very last episode was a love letter to her fans; just her on her stage talking to us, her viewers. Much of it was retread: of her rise to unprecedented success and fame, and of the life lessons Oprah has... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: The NYPD Rape Acquittal
Sometimes a situation is so horrible that a Douchebag Decree just doesn’t cut it. However, I can think of nothing douchier today than the NYPD trial verdict, which found the two accused officers... Read more »
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