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Paige Woolen, a thin white woman, poses behind a table as she smizes at the camera

No Conversation: @DudesInTheDMs Is Making the Internet Safer for Women

by Allie Rowbottom
February 18, 2021 at 9:46am
Any woman can send Paige Woolen screenshots of unwanted DMs and have them shared with 61,000 followers. Read more »
The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Joss Whedon and the Persistence of Prioritizing Male “Creative Genius”

by Elly Belle
February 18, 2021 at 9:45am
What if we cared more about justice than “male genius?”  Read more »
Rachel Lindsay, a Black woman with long, dark hair, smiles. She wears a dress and a white fur coat and sits on a rooftop.

Fucking Tired: Fixing “The Bachelor’s” Racism Isn’t Rachel Lindsay’s Job

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 17, 2021 at 12:01pm
Rachel Lindsay has become the built-in key to solving the empire’s ongoing problems with racism. Read more »
Britney Spears, a white teenager with long, blond hair, smiles brightly at the camera while wearing a black dress

#FreeBritney Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

by s.e. smith
February 17, 2021 at 10:11am
For the disability community, this movement could result in major changes to a system that has been taken at face value. Read more »
Patricia Lockwood, a white woman with short, brown hair, poses in profile in a black and white photo

“No One Is Talking about This” Brings Online Pangs to Real Life Tragedy

by s.e. smith
February 16, 2021 at 11:47am
No One Is Talking About This is a reflection of our ebbing and flowing need for connection. Read more »
Carlson Young plays Margaret, a white woman with short, blond hair, who looks aghast as she moves through a deep red world, in The Blazing World

BitchWatch: 5 Frightening Feminist Films from Sundance

by Michelle Krasovitski
February 16, 2021 at 10:16am
These movies are meaningful entries into a genre that has its sights toward social commentary. Read more »
Tessica Brown, a black woman, wears a long braid and long eyelashes. She leans into the camera while wearing a pink hoodie.

Naming and Shaming: Why The Gorilla Glue Discourse Took Hold

by Jordan Taliha McDonald
February 15, 2021 at 1:13pm
Our impulse is to name and shame. Why?  Read more »
Portrait of Greisa Martínez Rosas, a Mexican woman with long dark brown curls, wearing a white blazer and smiling

BitchTapes: Immigrant Dreaming

by Greisa Martínez Rosas
February 12, 2021 at 2:50pm
Greisa Martínez Rosas outlines some of the songs that have helped guide her ethos as an organizer and a movement leader. Read more »
A person covered in a glowing liquid crawls toward the camera. They hold a bright green eye over their eye.

Hiding in Dreams: Jane Schoenbrun Is Redefining Trans Cinema

by Juan Barquin
February 12, 2021 at 9:56am
Bitch spoke with Jane Schoenbrun about the film, dysphoria, and how the internet shapes our identities. Read more »
Two white women in the eighteenth century stand close together in a kitchen and look into each other’s eyes.

Homophobic Violence Mars the Romance of “The World to Come”

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 11, 2021 at 8:38am
What the film lacks in any real, tangible chemistry between its leads, it makes up for in its excess of violence. Read more »

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by Angely Mercado
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Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction

a blue and white illustration of a woman in Amish attire standing next to a fan and a chicken
by Audrey deCoursey
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Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture. Read more »

In a Bizarre 1976 Comic Book, Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education

by Sarah Mirk
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Last week, I came across a very strange comic book: in 1976, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which... Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

by Katherine Cross
Winter 2015 • (Re)Vision
For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »