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BiblioBitch: Beauty Queens
Pageant competitors in a dire situation? It sounds like a recipe for an overly catty misogyfest (or, let’s be honest, a terrible porno). Instead, Libba Bray has crafted a complex, blistering satire that is, dare I say, one of the most explicitly feminist novels I have ever read.
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#YAsaves, Ignorance Hurts: The <em>Wall Street Journal</em>'s Attack on Books
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal fired a shot heard around the literary world: a so-called book review by Meghan... Read more »
Bitch YA Book Club: Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
For this month’s YA book club, Jennie Law asks Erin Blakemore, Ellen Papazian, and Nona Willis Aronowitz what they thought about Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott. Add your own answers to Jennie’s... Read more »
A Conversation with Megan McCafferty
I was lucky enough to speak with beloved author Megan McCafferty this week about her new book Bumped... Read more »
Bitch YA Book Club: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
For this month’s YA book club, Jessica Stites asks Erin Blakemore, Jennie Law, Ellen Papazian, and Nona Willis Aronowitz what they thought about Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan. Add your own answers to... Read more »
Bitch YA Book Club: Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Welcome to our first Bitch YA Book Club! Today, Erin Blakemore asks Jennie Law, Ellen Papazian, and Jessica Stites what they thought about Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce. What did you think about this book? Add your own... Read more »
On Our Radar
Phew! This week saw lots of compelling internet content, including the following:
Queerty... Read more »
From the Library: 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader
The Bitch Media Community Lending Library brings you our very first book list, made up of 100 young adult novels that every feminist should add to the stack of books on their bedside table. Here at the library we've been re-reading some of our old standbys and finding new... Read more »
Iconography: Covering Up Race
I am wary when I walk into bookstores these days, because I don't need to dip into the horror section to find books that scare me. I take a look around at the white faces on the covers and think about how I'm not encountering books about people like me. Except, given how popular the whitewashing of... Read more »
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