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Bitch Benefit Concert at Mississippi Studios in Portland!

Video blog post by Jaymee Jacoby, June 25, 2009 - 8:14pm; tagged benefits, fundraising, music, Portland.
Get Down Bitch Jamboree Style!

Where: Newly renovated Mississippi Studios!
3939 N Mississippi Ave, Portland OR 97227
Date/Time: Thursday July 9th, doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
How To: Buy your tickets at the door, or purchase online!
More Info: Featuring Sugar Short Wave, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Katie Sawicki, and Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside.Tickets $10 in advance and at the door.
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Video blog post by Kjerstin Johnson, May 15, 2009 - 3:10pm; tagged bitch, Bitch infomercial, infomercials, magazine, subscribe, supscription.

Check out Bitch's homemade infomercial and subscribe today! Read on to get infomercial banners for your webpage!
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BitchMart is now open!

DigiBitch blog post by Briar Levit, May 8, 2009 - 7:06pm; tagged Apron, Cap, Hat, merchandise, Pull-over Hoodie, Support Bitch, T-shirt, tote bag, Zip Hoodie.

In the last couple of years, many of you have asked—with varying degrees of patience—if Bitch would ever return to selling t-shirts. Well, the answer is yes and the time is now. We’re thrilled to announce the opening of BitchMart, our online shop. Tell the world you love Bitch, and look good doing it: With our eco-friendly, sweatshop-free products, you’ll not only be the sharpest, most progressive dresser on your block, you’ll be doing Bitch Media a solid by supporting our mission.
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Host a Bitch House Party!

DigiBitch blog post by Jaymee Jacoby, April 18, 2009 - 1:14am; tagged events, fun times, fundraising, house parties, readers.
house_party.jpg We have a goal of raising $15,000 by June through our Bitch House Party Campaign. Check out the House Party Planning Kit, which describes everything you need to know about throwing a Bitch House Party--a fun way to raise money and recruit new readership and supporters for your favorite feminist media organization. Questions? Contact Jaymee!
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Get out on the street and preach the gospel of Bitch!

DigiBitch blog post by Kelsey Wallace, April 20, 2009 - 7:22pm; tagged awareness, community organizing, friends of Bitch, street teams, subscribe, subscription.
3065184717_d2e16cccd5.jpg We need YOU to help with our Bitch subscription drive! As a Street Team Captain, you’ll have the power to spread the word and cultivate support for the most intelligently sassy feminist media organization around. Interested? Check out the Street Team Kit Questions? Contact Kelsey.
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Join the B-Hive!

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This fall, we asked for your help and you told us overwhelmingly that Bitch was a worthy investment. In four weeks we received $74,000 in gifts from loyal readers like you. And thanks to you, we are moving forward with renewed purpose and inspiration. As we look to the future, we see clearly that you, our supporters, are the key to sustaining Bitch. That's why we're asking you to support our work by joining the B-Hive, our sustaining membership program. By contributing a gift of $5 or more monthly, you will help shape our future by allowing us to budget and plan more efficiently. It's easy to sign up - simply visit our secure online giving site.
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Articles

The Rachel Papers

What a hot, smart, lesbian pundit means for an uneasy America
Article by Jonanna Widner, Illustrated by Omar Lee, published in 2009; filed under Broadcast; tagged lesbian icons, media, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, women in news.
Get your own - Open publication
Now you can quit camping out for the USPS to deliver your copy of "Buzz" and start reading Jonanna Widner's piece on Rachel Maddow, exploring the the pundit's prime time rise and unprecedented fan club around the country, and offering a social critique to the madness around Maddow! Click on the article for interactive reading!
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Bite Me! (Or Don't)

Bite Me! (Or Don't)

Stephenie Meyer’s vampire-infested Twilight series has created a new YA genre: abstinence porn
Article by Christine Seifert, published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged abstinence, fan fiction, objectification, porn, sex, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, vampires, YA fiction.

Abstinence has never been sexier than it is in Stephenie Meyer’s young adult four-book Twilight series. Fans are super hot for Edward, a century-old vampire in a 17-year-old body, who sweeps teenaged Bella, your average human girl, off her feet in a thrilling love story that spans more than 2,000 pages. Fans are enthralled by their tale, which begins when Edward becomes intoxicated by Bella’s sweet-smelling blood.

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The Ambition Condition

The Ambition Condition

Women, Writing, and the Problem of Success
Article by Anna Clark, Illustrated by Meg Hunt, appeared in issue Loud; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged alternative literary culture, ambitous women, devaluing women's voices, female writers, literary sexism.

Perhaps you know about Emily Gould’s cover story, “Exposed,” in the New York Times Magazine last May. Even if you didn’t take in all 8,002 words on the former Gawker editor’s gains and losses from blogging about her personal life, it would be hard to miss the criticism of the piece elsewhere. From the Huffington Post to the Philadelphia Weekly to an untold number of blogs and listservs, the backlash challenged the magazine for peddling narcissistic Dear-Diary diatribes as a worthy journalistic cover story.


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Beauty Secrets

Beauty Secrets

The New Cosmetic Cover-up
Article by Jacqueline Houton, Illustrated by Taryn Egan, appeared in issue Loud; published in 2008; filed under Consumer culture; tagged advertising, beauty, beauty products, corporate ickiness, Cosmetic Ingrediet Review, cosmetics, FDA, health, women's magazines.

From the pages of every mainstream women’s magazine—between the list of 43 things every confident woman knows and the six-week ab-blasting plan—the ads beckon. Conditioners enriched with vitamins vow to make each strand 10 times stronger. Undereye concealers containing white-tea antioxidants claim to combat the cellular damage that deepens those oh-so-unsightly dark circles. Pricey foundations promise to rejuvenate the face at the molecular level with the new Pro-Xylane compound, carefully extracted from Eastern European beech trees.

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Ain't I a Mommy?

Ain't I a Mommy?

Bookstores Brim with Motherhood Memoirs. Why Are So Few of Them Penned by Women of Color?
Article by Deesha Philyaw, appeared in issue Genesis; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged mommy wars, motherhood, parenting, publishing, race, women of color.

Shortly before the birth of my first child nine years ago, while browsing the bookstore for mommy wisdom, I discovered Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year and fell in love with the author and the book. More than any parenting truisms the book might have contained, it was Lamott’s writing style—funny, self-deprecating, and brutally honest—that kept me reading. The big mommy insight I gleaned from Operating Instructions was that I wasn’t quite as neurotic as Anne, so my kid and I would probably be all right. 


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Factory Girl

Factory Girl

Dora the Explorer and the Dirty Secrets of the Global Industrial Economy
Article by Lois Leveen, Illustrated by James Hindle, appeared in issue Genesis; published in 2008; filed under Broadcast; tagged children, Dora, global economy, global trade, globalization, NAFTA, tv.

Dora the Explorer, eponymous Latina star of the animated Nickelodeon series, is a bilingual problem solver who confidently traverses unknown territory in every episode. In “City of Lost Toys,” a typical episode, Dora sets out to find her missing teddy bear, Osito, and other toys her friends have lost. She’s helped along the way by her sidekick (a monkey named Boots), her trusty map, and a group of magical stars she and Boots catch. The first landmark Dora reaches on her journey is a Mesoamerican-style pyramid where she must complete basic counting and arithmetic problems.

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Mad Science

Mad Science

Deconstructing Bunk Reporting in 5 Easy Steps
Article by Beth Skwarecki, Illustrated by Meg Hunt, appeared in issue Wired; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged biological determinism, gender, gender roles, mainstream media, media, media critique, media sexism, science, stereotypes.

British scientists have uncovered the truth behind one of modern culture’s greatest mysteries: why little girls play with pink toys. Is it because toy companies flood whole store aisles with the color? Or because well-meaning relatives shower girl babies with pink blankets and clothing? Nope. According to the men in lab coats, it’s purely biological.

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Hard Times

Hard Times

At the New York Times Book Review, all the misogyny is fit to print
Article by Sarah Seltzer, appeared in issue Wired; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged antifeminist women, book reviews, gender equity, highbrow catfight, media, new york times, reviews.

The New York Times Book Review has never exactly embraced passionate advocacy—unless it was promoting Pynchon’s and DeLillo’s place in the postmodernist canon. Even worse, it has become the place where serious feminist books come to die— or more accurately, to be dismissed with the flick of a well-manicured postfeminist wrist.


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Blogs

BitchTapes: Only The Good Die Young Edition

B-sides blog post by Ashley Brittner, July 3, 2009 - 8:53pm; tagged Billie Holiday, BitchTapes, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Patsy Cline, Queen, Ritchie Valens, The Carpenters, TLC.

Happy 4th of July weekend! We know that a large portion of this great country is in tune with pop culture in one way or another. And music is a large part of that culture. We also know that last week, the King of Pop died, which has brought things to somewhat of a halt, so to speak. It is safe to say that almost every person in America has contemplated the death of Michael Jackson over the last week. The reactions have been anywhere from grief to apathy to supposed suicide pacts between some of his hardcore fans. Undoubtedly, Jackson's influence was huge, and speculation about what his life was really like into every nitty gritty sordid detail will surely unfold in the coming months. I heard someone say no one this influential in America, hell worldwide, has died since Elvis. And sure, it was too soon. Historically, there are hundreds of musicians that have died before their time, due to things like murder, eating disorders, suicide. So in paying homage to America and some of its ever honored musicians, I've made a mix of songs from artists who died young. Some whose deaths made just as much of an impact on us as their lives.

 

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Science Says: "Yay for Vibrators!"

Beaker Bitch blog post by Sarah Mirk, July 3, 2009 - 7:24pm; tagged Dan Savage, female sexuality, Fox News, gynecological exam, mainstream media, masturbation, New York Times, sex in media, sexual health, vibrators, women's health.
Well it's about damn time! Though physicians and therapists (not just Dan Savage, we're talking mainstream doctors) have been known for decades that vibrator use can be great for sexual health, there's never been a scientific study to back up the common knowledge. Until now!

Trojan funded a national research project to determine the extent and impact of vibrator use and la-di-da, look what they found: not only do a majority of American women use vibrators, they're happier for it!

According to the surveys of 2,056 women and 1,047 men ages 18-60, a whopping 53 percent of women (and 45 percent of men) say they use a vibrator - a quarter of those in the last month. Women who use vibrators were more likely to say they were sexually happy and more likely to get gynecological exams.

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Feminism and Caregiving

Breeder's Digest blog post by Veronica I. Arreola, July 3, 2009 - 5:43pm; tagged blog carnival, caregiving, childcare, feminism, Feminism 2.0, Healthcare, women's work.
Feminism 2.0 is holding a caregiving blog carnival July 13th:

Fem2.0 Blog Carnival: For Women, the Other Side of Work Is NOT Play… It’s Caregiving

Women take care of children, spouses, parents, family members, friends. We dominate the caregiving professions, like nursing or social work. Ask anyone receiving care of any kind and he or she will most likely tell you that the primary caregiver is a woman.

Caregiving is a job for which women usually don’t get or expect monetary compensation. It is a critical aspect of work/life and healthcare issues. How can caregiving be made easier to make our lives easier?
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Transformers 2: Offensive Archetypes in Disguise

DigiBitch blog post by Kjerstin Johnson, July 3, 2009 - 1:22am; tagged douchebag decree, film, film critiques, film reviews, Megan Fox, Michael Bay, objectification, racism, Robots in disguise, sexism, stereotypes, Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen.

Internet buzz about Michael Bay's (director of landmark crap-tion films like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island) latest film Transformers 2 has mostly centered around who has the most scathing review, how hot Megan Fox is, and a few murmurs concerning coded racism in two of the robots.

This movie made me wanna barf and yawn at the same time. The following feminist critique of Transformers does contain spoilers, but frankly, there’s nothing I could further ruin about this movie that it doesn’t already do itself....
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Nicht, Nicht: Bruno Ending Edited for Gay Bashing

DigiBitch blog post by Kelsey Wallace, July 2, 2009 - 10:56pm; tagged Bruno, film, gay bashing, homosexuality, Richard Day, Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Summertime means blockbuster movies. After all, what's better on a hot day than heading into an air-conditioned megaplex and watching larger-than-life actors live out unrealistic scenarios with even less realistic conclusions? But while summer blockbusters often bring with them cheesy dialogue and special effects, they shouldn't bring gay bashing. And now, thanks to some last minute editing of the ending of Bruno, they won't (we hope).

Bruno, the latest film by Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Da Ali G Show), is the story of a very openly gay Austrian man who works in the fashion world. Though we are more than a week away from the film's July 11 release date, Bruno has already enjoyed quite a bit of media attention (and speculation) as to its portrayal of the gay community. The latest? The film's ending has been edited for gay bashing.

More (including spoilers!) after the jump
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Time(s) to Focus on Women in the Developing World

On the Map blog post by Mandy Van Deven, July 2, 2009 - 6:48pm; tagged development, global feminism, Half the Sky, New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn.

On August 23rd, the New York Times Sunday Magazine will release a "special issue" about women in the developing world.

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Sisterhood Is...

Breeder's Digest blog post by Veronica I. Arreola, July 2, 2009 - 4:11am; tagged Indigo Girls, music, picnics, sisterhood.
Friday night I attended an Indigo Girls concert at Ravina. Ravina is an outdoor concert arena but it is mostly lawn seating. People usually come bearing picnic baskets of cheese, wine and other snackables. It really is an experience. Friday night was pretty packed on the lawn as usual. People scout out their own spots and it's normally pretty hard to get back to the path if you are sitting too far in.

There were quite a good number of little girls attending with their moms. One such little girl was being lead, quickly, out of the lawn towards the path. We overhead the mom say loudly, "Come on, you can hold it. Squeeze! Squeeze!" Uh-oh...the potty run!

The mom was taking her daughter away from the best exit path, so one woman yelled out, "Over here!" A collective "whew" could be heard as the mom turned quickly and they were well on their way to the restrooms. "Sisterhood in action!" cried my friend.

I have no idea if the little girl made it, but I hope that the super long line parted ways for one of the littlest fans. Sisterhood indeed.
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No Guts, No Glory? Wakker Dier Makes a Snuff Film in the Name of Animal Rights.

DigiBitch blog post by Kelsey Wallace, July 1, 2009 - 7:20pm; tagged Ancilla Tilia, animal rights, fetish model, fish, snuff film, Violence Against Women, viral videos, Wakker Dier.
Animal rights activists aren't typically thought of as being misogynistic, violent perverts, but maybe they should be. Well, at least the geniuses over at Wakker Dier should be. Wakker Dier (which means "Animal Awake" in Dutch) launched a viral video campaign last week, complete with a countdown to the unveiling of this video (Warning: The following video contains graphic violence):



Q: Was that snuff film starring a fetish model supposed to make viewers sympathetic toward fish? A: Yes. WTF???
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Global Anti-Gun Effort is Disarming

On the Map blog post by Mandy Van Deven, July 1, 2009 - 7:00pm; tagged Disarm Domestic Violence, guns, international.

Two weeks ago the Disarm Domestic Violence Campaign launched worldwide. The first international campaign to protect women from gun violence featured women activists from 28 countries who spoke out against small arms proliferation through art, advocacy, media outreach, and direct action.

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An Open Letter to Jenny Lewis

DigiBitch blog post by Malori Maloney, June 30, 2009 - 8:28pm; tagged advertising, Carl's Jr., commercials, Jenny Lewis, Moneymaker, Rilo Kiley.

Dear Jenny,

We go way back. Back to the days when you and Blake were more than just band mates. Back to the days before "Portions for Foxes" was used in that episode of The O.C. when Marissa skipped school to drive to L.A. with her soon-to-be girlfriend Alex. Even before you sang with the Postal Service on Give Up. I've been there through it all and now I've just got to let you know that I'm really, really disappointed. You can probably guess why, but just in case you need to have you memory jogged, please watch (and listen) to this:

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Featured Mom Blog: This Woman's Work

Breeder's Digest blog post by Veronica I. Arreola, June 29, 2009 - 11:36pm; tagged mom blog.

I've been reading Dawn forever and each time I get a chance to mention her as a mom blog I do. This Woman's Work is an amazing blog.

In a nutshell, Dawn has brought us along on her journey as a mom to Noah, wife to Brett, through her & Brett's desire to be parents again and their decision to bring Madison, through adoption, into their family. What sets Dawn's blog a part of other mom blogs is her honesty. The epitome of her honesty is how she is managing the open adoption of Madison.

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Adventures in Feministory: Emily Warren Roebling

DigiBitch blog post by Kelsey Wallace, June 29, 2009 - 9:45pm; tagged Adventures in Feministory, Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Warren Roebling, engineering, feminism, hipsters, John A. Roebling, New York.
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Hey there all you Brooklyn hipsters! Did you know that the Brooklyn Bridge is not only useful when one wishes to imply quirkiness (I'm talking to you, Gossip Girl), its completion was also overseen by the first ever woman field engineer?

Emily Warren Roebling was born in New York state in 1843, and became the chief engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge by default when her husband, Washington Roebling (the first chief engineer on the project) became ill. Hey, sometimes it takes a man contracting an exotic and fatal illness (Caisson disease, in this case) in order for a talented woman to get an opportunity to do her thing (sorry dudes, but it's true).
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Lies and the Lying Feminists Who Tell Them: the latest from Christina Hoff Sommers

Love / Shove blog post by Kjerstin Johnson, June 29, 2009 - 9:11pm; tagged academia, antifeminist feminism, antifeminist women, Christina Hoff Sommers, Chronicle of Higher Education, women's studies.

"Feminist misinformation is pervasive," Christina Hoff Sommers writes in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.“Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship” is the latest from the author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women and The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminisim is Harming our Young Men, adding to her legacy of anti-feminist feminism and raising a stink over the contemporary feminist movement in academia.

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