The Old Issue

Articles published in the print Bitch magazine issue, Old. Check out the complete table of contents for the issue here.

Judged Judy: Judy Blume’s 40 Years Old Fight to Tell the Truth about Sex, Religion, and Turtles

Judy Blume, a white author wearing a white suit, sits on a rooftop and smiles at the camera
by Joanna Miller
February 12, 2020 at 4:06pm
For refusing to condescend to her readers in the face of physical harassment and threats of nonpublication, Blume has been, regardless of whether it was her intention, a protector of intellectual freedom and the First Amendment.
Lorna Raver, an elderly white woman, plays a witch whose face is decaying in Drag Me to Hell

Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror

by Alana Prochuk
October 21, 2019 at 9:00am
Unlike horror-movie fates such as, say, decapitation by paper cutter, aging is the ultimate fright because viewers recognize that they cannot escape it. Read more »
a white woman with short, blond hair and red lipstick sits on a couch

When the Chips Are Down: Anaïs Mitchell Goes Straight to Hades

by Dominique Rossi
June 7, 2019 at 12:46pm
In the original myth Eurydice dies without agency, but in Hadestown she chooses the underworld and deals with the repercussions. Read more »

Forever Your Girl: The Legacy of Helen Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood

February 12, 2010 at 3:13pm
Call it a feminist coincidence: Two books published in 1963 examine gender, sex, and marriage, but arrive at diametrically opposite conclusions. In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan complains that “the only passion, the only pursuit, the only goal a woman is permitted is the pursuit of a man.”... Read more »

Hitting the Small Time: Pop culture's suddenly full of tweeniuses - but why are they all boys?

February 12, 2010 at 2:15pm
Perhaps you've heard of 10-year-old Alec Greven, the author of a series of self-help tomes like How to Talk to Dads and How to Talk to Santa. The wee guru has appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Today show, CNN, The Tonight Show, and Good Morning America. In December 2008, Twentieth... Read more »

Control Womb: Are iPhone apps the new fertility specialists?

by Bree Kessler
February 12, 2010 at 1:51pm
Want to get pregnant? There's an app for that. Want to not get pregnant? There's an app for that, too (and no, it's not condoms). Want to know why you're so damn moody? There's—yep—an app for that. They could be considered the Our Bodies, Ourselves for the tech-savvy... Read more »