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Never Said Nothing: A Brief History of “Cunt” in Pop Music
From our 20th anniversary issue: The word has power.
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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.
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No Filter: Finding Chicana Empowerment, Community, and Art on Instagram
My feed is a treasure trove of girls who look like me.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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 »