Culture
BitchReads: 12 Books That Shaped Us as Feminists
For Women’s History Month, Bitch staffers share the titles that have influenced our feminist thinking, including work by Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Julia Serano, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Octavia Butler, and more.
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TikTok’s “Hoochie God” Is Not Afraid to Say What Needs to Be Said
Nia Jones, who is better known as Hoochie God, is using her platform to offer a safe space to Black women both online and in real life.
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Very Online: How Gullibility Became Our New Normal
Distrust in the authority of traditional sources has led to the credulous embrace of online bunk.
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The Paralympic Paradigm: How the “Inspiring” Narrative Restricts and Fetishizes Disabled Athletes
Negative attitudes toward disability start with how athletes are framed in news coverage.
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6 Feminist Albums That Got Us Through February
February brought fresh, heartfelt, sounds from artists Mitski, Mary J. Blige, Raveena, and more. As always, happy listening!
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Not Just for Kids: A New Book Addresses the Unbearable Truth of Sexual Assault
Anastasia Higginbothom writes children’s books on serious and challenging topics. Her latest is “You Ruined It: A Book About Boundaries,” which addresses sexual assault.
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Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir
“Someone I used to live with described my writing process as watching someone vomit compulsively for hours at a time,” says Grace Lavery, author of “Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.”
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“JANET JACKSON” Promised Honesty, But Delivered a Controlled—and Constrained—Narrative
For all its attempts at unabashed honesty, “JANET JACKSON.” is deceptively guarded: Jackson still seeks shelter in an unknowable self, hidden from even her closest family and friends.
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In “High-Risk Homosexual,” Living Authentically Is Bittersweet
High-Risk Homosexual pulls apart the neat narratives we often see about what it means to come out—and to pursue your creative dreams.
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