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Whitewashed History: The “Loud” Podcast Amplifies Reggaeton’s Overlooked Black Roots
Ivy Queen’s insightful podcast “Loud” examines reggaeton’s past, present, and future.
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Remembering bell hooks in Her Own Words
Bitch interviewed the legendary feminist scholar bell hooks in our Winter 2000 issue.
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King Isis Bends Both Gender and Genre
“Music has been there for me even when I couldn’t be there for myself,” says the singer.
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Feminist-ish: The “Little Miss Badass” Trope
The trope itself is powerful because audiences also often perceive young women as vulnerable and nonthreatening, and the reveal that a character is secretly a Little Miss Badass subverts their own expectations of the narrative.
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Essentialist Thinking: "Femlandia" Provokes, but Doesn't Push Past the Gender Binary
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch.
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A Love Scorned: What “You” Season 3 Says about Fans’ Obsession with Male Killers
Despite viewers’ desire to “fix” the fictional male serial killer, Love Quinn’s murderous heel turn didn’t get the same reaction from fans after Season 2.
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Female Trouble: In the Absence of Tropes, What Can a Woman Be?
We still aren’t fully comfortable with women who can’t be slotted into recognizable roles.
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Gina Frangello Writes Complex Women. Is That Why She’s “Unlikeable?”
Gina Frangello is surprised to find herself suddenly being a poster girl for rage.
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A Woman Hasn’t Won a Writing Oscar in 13 Years. That Could Change on Sunday.
A female screenwriter hasn’t won an Oscar since George W. Bush was in office.
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“Diners, Dudes, and Diets” Reveals the Absurdity of Gendered Food
By naming and examining dude food, Emily J.H. Contois gives us the language and historical context for an omnipresent phenomenon we’ve all surely noticed.
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