True Blood

Screw Winter... True Blood's Coming!

For those of you who’ve reading our weekly Mad Men coverage here at Bitch, fear not: we’ll recap Sunday’s season finale (sniff), but we’ll be covering True Blood too! Because a soap-y, action-packed show like... Read more »

Bitch Popaganda: Wise Blood Edition

Welcome back to another episode of Bitch Popaganda! Tune in as Andi, Deb, and Kelsey discuss addiction in the media, Elisabeth Badinter in the New Yorker, and True Blood. Links after the jump! Read more »

True Blood: A Werepanther Rape is Not a "Sex Scene"

Last night’s episode of True Blood contained the usual outrageous plot twists and soap opera-levels of drama, which is great and which is why I (and probably you if you’re reading this) look forward to summer Sunday nights. However, it also contained a totally fucked-up gang... Read more »

Pop Pedestal: Lafayette Reynolds

Since True Blood comes back this month, it seemed like the perfect time to dedicate a Pop Pedestal to one of Bon Temps most inspirational citizens: ... Read more »

Tube Tied: "The Bridge of You and Me Ain't Never Gonna Happen": Against True Blood

I... don't really understand the fuss about True Blood. I understand that the show employs very attractive people, and that those people have very attractive sex quite often. I also understand that it involves stories about vampires and werewolves, which increasingly seems to be the only growth... Read more »

Genderlicious: Catharsis for Radical Anti Racist Feminists to "Regular Dudes"

At my home planet of Racialicious, I recently started up a True Blood roundtable, where five of us weekly go to town on the various racist-sexisms of everyone's favourite vampire show.  As the grumpiest of the bunch, my opinions on True Blood are vastly more negative than positive, especially when... Read more »

The Transcontinental Disability Choir: True Blood: Sookie Stackhouse, Telepathy, and Disability

But the reason I looked forward to True Blood is because the Sookie Stackhouse novels feature a disabled heroine. And, as a person with disabilities, that is something that I do not get to see very often. Despite the fact that we make up an estimated 20% of the population, our... Read more »

Newsflash, Vampire Bill: Rape is Neither Romantic, Nor Charming

Those of us who watch HBO’s True Blood would have a hard time denying the show’s sex appeal (or at least, sex). After all, Bon Temps, Lousiana (the fictional setting for the show) is one seeexxxy town. Vampires banging humans? Check.... Read more »

Bitch Popaganda: New Moon Risin' Edition

It’s like The View, but with fewer hot flashes Lend your ear to the first ever episode of Bitch Popaganda, Bitch Media’s new bi-weekly pop culture podcast! Hear Annalee, Ashley, and Kelsey debate the merits of the... Read more »

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