Magazine

Never Said Nothing: A Brief History of “Cunt” in Pop Music

From our 20th anniversary issue: The word has power. Read more »

Rewriting Reality: A Forthcoming Speculative Fiction Anthology Asks Transgender Authors to Imagine New Worlds

It’s been a helter-skelter year for sci-fi and geekdom. Read more »

No Filter: Finding Chicana Empowerment, Community, and Art on Instagram

My feed is a treasure trove of girls who look like me. Read more »

Geeking Out: Four writers on nerding while Black

From Scooby-Doo’s Velma to Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nerd girls have always been white by default. Read more »

Say Goodbye To Blood & Guts!

It's your last chance to get the Blood & Guts issue delivered to your door! Though many covers of Bitch magazine would look fantastic up on your wall, none quite match the intensity and beauty of Ana Teresa Barboza’s multimedia masterpiece that opens the Blood & Guts... Read more »

A Letter From Bitch Cofounder Andi Zeisler: Feminist Media Means Two Things

It's been almost 20 years since we started Bitch. I'm as proud to help lead this organization as I was when we printed the first issue of the magazine and distributed it out of the back of a Toyota Corona in 1996. But I wouldn't still be here if we had sacrificed our independence—... Read more »

It's A Big Day For Bitch Media

I know numbers aren't inspiring. I won't pretend they are. But I want to keep this really short, so I hope the work we do at Bitch every single day can speak for itself just this once.  Read more »

From the HQ: We've Got To Be Bold About Asking You

Readers will never stumble across a thinly guised pitch from a company like Unilever aimed at reaching our “demographic” of smart, engaged feminists, or see a “guest post” about some new product that doesn't do anything but tell you how to live your life “better.” Read more »

Drawn from Life: Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl Hits the Big Screen

Raised in San Francisco, Phoebe Gloeckner draws her artistic influence from many of the prominent cartoonists of the 1970s Underground Comix movement. Read more »

Critical Conditions: For Trans Individuals, Seeking Medical Care Can Be a Minefield

When trans individuals encounter the medical system, they're often met with discrimination. A lack of understanding of trans identity, gender presentation, and the community’s needs creates barriers to healthcare on every level, from insurance coverage to conversations over the pharmacy... Read more »

Pages

House Proud : The troubling rise of stay-at-home daughters

“Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope 
of their father. As long as they’re under the...

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Mad Science: Deconstructing Bunk Reporting in 5 Easy Steps

British scientists have uncovered the truth behind one of modern culture's greatest mysteries: why little girls play with pink toys. Is it...

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She-Hulk, Attorney at Law: She's Mean, She's Green, and She Believes in Due Process

Avenger. Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Member of the Fantastic Four. Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »