The ReVision Issue

Articles published in the print Bitch magazine issue, (Re)Vision. Check out the whole table of contents here.

Jeannie’s American Dream: The Assimilation of a TV Icon

an illustration of Jeannie, a character dressed as a belly dancer and holding a flag in her

May 26, 2020 at 9:00am

I Dream of Jeannie is the only U.S. television show that has revolved around a female Arab character, which is quite sad given that she’s a make-believe caricature.

About the Cover of Our (Re)Vision Issue

by Kristin Rogers Brown

December 4, 2014 at 3:51pm

For the cover of Bitch’s winter issue, (Re)Vision, we dissected a kaleidoscope. Read more »

Born This Way?: Why an evidence-based stance on sex and gender is good for science and for feminism

November 21, 2014 at 3:38pm

Scarcely a week goes by without a study on gender differences in the brain making headlines. “Female brains really ARE different to male minds,” reported the Mail Online on July 28, while a day later Salon framed the same research as “Women are getting smarter faster than men.... Read more »

Pretty Unnecessary: Taking beauty out of body positivity

November 21, 2014 at 3:07pm

In the early 2000s, when I was a burgeoning fashionable fat girl, I stumbled across the LiveJournal community Fatshionista. I loved seeing pictures of women my size or larger dressed in stylish, interesting, sexy clothes, embracing bright colors and form-fitting cuts, performing liberation and... Read more »