Bitch Guest Bloggers

Polly Allen

In the Frame

Blogged: Winter 2011
Sample Posts:  Artemisia Gentileschi, the Artist Who Broke the Mold, Guerrilla Girls Rule! (Here's How to Follow Their Lead), How Did You Discover Feminist Art?

Alex Alvarez

Racy Thoughts Blogged: Fall 2010
Sample Posts: Of Modern Families and Hot Tamales, Glee's Magical Friendship, Little Boxes, Little Boxes

 

Veronica Arreola

 Breeder's Digest
Blogged: Summer 2009
Sample Posts: Congratulations, it's a girl and you're a liberal!, Feminism and Caregiving, About that Ms. Cover

 

BeckySharper

Bed, Bitch & Beyond
Blogged: Fall 2009
Sample Posts: I blame porn, Three times the fun or just sloppy thirds?, The joy of casual sex

 

Megan Carpentier

The Dating Game
Blogged: Summer 2010
Sample Posts: 3 Things to Never put in an Online Dating Profile, Sluts Don't Get to be Happy, The Other Woman, and Why She Isn't Your Enemy

 

Anna Clark

Feminism and Sports
Blogged: Winter 2009
Sample Posts: To Be A Title IX Dad, Notre Dame Hires Pro-Choice Catholic as New Football Coach, Top Ten Reasons Why This Feminist is a Sports Fan

 

Cristen Conger

Isn't He Lovely
Blogged: Fall 2011
Sample Posts: Guy Talk with Hugo Schwyzer of the Good Men Project, The Myth of the Superior Penis, Do These Blue Jeans Make My Butt Look Gay?

 

Ouyang Dan

The Games We Play
Blogged: Winter 2009 (with The Transcontinental Disability Choir), Spring 2011
Sample Posts: Changing the Industry, The Chainmail Bikini, Role-Playing Morality

 

Michelle Dean

Tube Tied
Blogged: Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Sample Posts: Why aren't you watching Nurse Jackie?, A plea (for a better Glee), 30 Rock and the Problem with Rape Jokes

 

Katherine Don

Bringing Up Baby
Blogged: Fall 2011
Sample Posts:  Childbirth as Male Bonding Experience, The Traumatic Birth Scenes of Ye Olden Days, The Desperate Housewives' Guide to TV's Childbearing Tropes

 

Dorianisms

Stage Left
Blogged: Summer 2011
Sample Posts:  On NINE and Manpain,  Getting to the Theater—or Not,  "Die, Vampire, Die!" Reflections on Self-Doubt and Advocacy Work.

 

Sady Doyle

She Pop
Blogged: Fall 2009
Sample Posts:Will Ellen DeGeneres Make American Idol a Gayer Place?, Madonna, motherhood, and choices, John Mayer embraces his inner Tucker Max

 

Lisa Factora-Borchers

Feminisms = Plural
Blogged: Winter 2009
Sample Posts: Get real, get local when ending violence against women, An open letter to the feminist blogosphere, Challenging post-racial America

 

Liza Featherstone

Raising Trouble
Blogged: Spring 2010
Sample Posts: Pink and Blue Brains?, Worst Toy of the Year?, In Defense of Brangelina

 

Tasha Fierce

Size Matters, Sex and the Fat Girl
Blogged: Fall 2010, Spring 2011
Sample Posts: Fat Acceptance and You, Fabulous Fat Divas, Your Big Fat Reading List

 

Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey's Anatomy

Featuring posts by s.e. smith, Tasha Fierce,  Everett Maroon, Snarky's Machine, and Redlami
Blogged: Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Sample Posts:  Can't Fight Biology,  P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),   I Will Survive

 

Garland Grey

Sexual Inadequacy
Blogged: Summer 2011
Sample Posts:  t.A.T.u. and Synthetic Queerness, Public Displays of Affection, Ambiguously Gay Wizards

 

Rita Hao

For Realz?
Blogged: Spring 2009
Sample Posts: What happens to a queer Quiverfull?, Supermodel Self-Delusion, So you think you can apologize

 

J. Maureen Henderson

The Young and the Feckless
Blogged: Spring 2010
Sample Posts: Mo' Education, Mo' Problems?,The Myth of Gen Y Homogeneity, An Interview with Break the Silence's Morgane Richardson

 

Sarah Jaffe

Music Matters
Blogged: Fall 2010
Sample Posts: Robyn, Janelle Monae, & Fembot/Cyborg/Android Feminism, (Not A) Typical Girl, Hustle and Cuss (Or, Why I Love Alison Mosshart)

 

Rachel McCarthy James

Televism, Beyond the Panel
Blogged: Summer 2010
Sample Posts: Spoiler Alert! Lost is Heteronormative!, Family Guy's Racist Emmy Campaign, The Competent and Awesome Ladies of Bones,  An interview with RJ Edwards of Riot Nrrd,  An interview with Christine Smith of Eve's Apple

 

Chally Kacelnik

Iconography
Blogged: Winter 2011
Sample Posts: Covering Up Race, Romancing Women, It'd Be a Crime Not To

 

Thea Lim

Genderlicious
Blogged: Summer 2010
Sample Posts: I would Like to Buy Jhameel a Drank, Olivia Munn and I, Looking at "Why Misogynists Make Great Informants"

 

Emily Manual

Electro Feminisms
Blogged: Spring 2011
Sample Posts: Authorship and the Gendered Division of Labor, I'm in Love with a Strict Machine, Robyn, Torch Singer

 

 

La Macha

Team Queer
Blogged: Winter 2009
Sample Posts: Sex positive and hyper-sexualization in sports, Re(thinking) Walking: a collaboration, Boxing through adversity

 

Everett Maroon

Political InQueery
Blogged: Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Summer 2011
Sample Posts: Where in the world is Phyllis Schlafly?, Fictional political tropes, We're still at war, Policing Masculinity,  Where the DOMA Ends,  False Dichotomies in the Race for President

 

Thomas Page McBee

The Body Electric
Blogged: Fall 2009
Sample Posts: Tattoo Magazines and the Big Dumb, Oh baby binary!, The higher the hair, the closer to God: Halloween queers us all

 

Jess McCabe

Murder, She Blogged
Blogged: Summer 2011
Sample Posts:  Detectives in Distress,  Let's Celebrate the Spinster Detective,  The Tourist Detective, Colonial Legacies

 

Sarah Mirk

Beaker Bitch
Blogged: Summer 2009
Sample Posts: Big Pharma writes script for menopause research, Inside the bank of breast milk

 

Avital Norman Nathman

Mom & Pop Culture
Blogged: Spring 2009
Sample Posts:  McGender: Unpacking the Happy Meal, Once Upon A Remake, The Princess Paradox

Nadra Kareem Nittle

Race Card
Blogged: Winter 2010, Winter 2011
Sample Posts: Blagojevich Says He's "Blacker" than Obama, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Race and Domestic Violence, Ishmael Reed on “Precious”

Tammy Oler

The Female Gaze
Blogged: Spring 2009
Sample Posts: Romantic comedies: still not that into you, Re-imagining Revolutionary Road, Anne Hathaway: Just another casualty of bride wars

 

Anna Palindrome

We're All Mad Here
Blogged: Winter 2009 (with The Transcontinental Disability Choir), Summer 2011
Sample Posts:  Sucker Punch Tackles Abuse In Asylums,  Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Pop Culture,  How Pop Culture Influences "Real Life"

 

Ellen Papazian

Page Turner
Blogged: Summer 2009
Sample Posts: Six questions with writer and activist Staceyann Chin, Books for the anti-princess girl-feminist, Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, on Comfort Women

 

Melissa Petro

The H-Word
Blogged: Fall 2011
Sample Posts: What the H?, Reflections on Sex, Power, and Speaking the Truth,  “Make Your Own Porn”

 

Deesha Philyaw

The Bitch in Black
Blogged: Spring 2009
Sample Posts: Madea, Tyler Perry, and church-going black women, Michelle Obama, mom-in-chief, Precious set for nationwide release

 

Andrea Plaid

The Lady is a Tramp
Blogged: Summer 2010
Sample Posts: How Lena Horne helped me become a tramp, Aiyana Stanley-Jones at the altar of the media, What isn't feminism saying about masturbation?

 

Sara Reihani

Dark of the Matinée
Blogged: Summer 2011
Sample Posts:  Celebrity Hate Crush // Bad Teacher,  That Boy's Life // Super 8,  21st Century F*ck // Friends With Benefits

 

Kristin Rawls

Preacher's Daughter
Blogged: Fall 2011
Sample Posts: Class Consciousness in Mavis Staples' "You Are not Alone", Women in Country and the Construction of Femininity, Anti-Feminism in the Music of the Christian Right

 

Anita Sarkeesian

Mad World/Tropes vs Women
Blogged: Spring-Fall 2010, Spring-Fall 2011
Sample Posts:  Retro Sexism and Über Ironic Advertising,  The Smurfette Principle,  The Straw Feminist

 

Lisa Schmeiser

Screen Shot
Blogged: Winter 2010
Sample Posts: Why a sex-crimes show is surprisingly female-friendly, Is cable TV access is a feminist issue? , Why it may not matter whether a woman ever hosts Late Night

 

Brittany Shoot

The Biotic Woman, No Kidding
Blogged: Winter 2010, Winter 2011
Sample Posts: Intro to Eco-Feminism, Vegans of Color, Is Temple Grandin an Activist?, Are Childfree People Angry?

 

s.e. smith

Push(back) at the Intersections, We're All Mad Here
Blogged: Winter 2009 (with The Transcontinental Disability Choir), Winter 2010, Summer 2011
Sample Posts: Lady Gaga and Feminism, Glee and Me, Stieg Larsson, Feminist Hero?,  Of Course We Should Dislike This Character! She's Crazy!,  Parenting While Crazy

 

Snarky's Machine

Snarky's Cinemachine
Blogged: Summer 2010
Sample Posts: Thelma Schoonmaker, the cut master, Hollywood, I can quit you, The Salt Supremacy

 

Natalie Stein

Sapphic Salon
Blogged: Winter 2009
Sample Posts: The Adam Lambert Double Standard, Why Lady Gaga is important for gay women, Nicki Minaj and the lesbian problem in hip-hop

 

Jennifer K. Stuller

Grrrl on Film
Blogged: Summer 2009
Sample Posts: Kicking ass and taking names: an actress spotlight on Tura Satana, Female directors: a film herstory awareness post, Tarantino & me: a response to Inglourious Basterds

 

The Transcontinental Disability Choir

Featuring posts by s.e. smith, Ouyang Dan, Annaham, Abby Jean, Anna, Lauredhel
Blogged: Winter 2009
Sample Posts: Glee-ful Appropriation, Popular Songs That Get Disability (Mostly) Right, What is Ableist Language and Why Should You Care?

 

JDTress

The Long Goodbye
Blogged: Winter 2011
Sample Posts: Oprah on Master Class,  (Sung in the tune of Peter Tosh) Veganize it!,   Oprah at Her Best

Juliana Tringali

The Box
Blogged: Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Sample Posts: Meh's Anatomy, The Box's crush-of-the-week: Daniel Dae-Kim, Cougar me this

 

Mandy Van Deven

On the Map, Takin' It to the Streets
Blogged: Spring 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2011
Sample Posts: The Turkish Delight in Woman-Designed Mosque, Argentinian Marriage Is Soooo Gay!, Hateraid: International Commercials Edition,  Transit Justice is a Civil Rights Issue,  Class-ifying Street Harassment

 

Alyx Vesey

Tuning In, Bechdel Test Canon
Blogged: Spring 2010, Fall 2010
Sample Posts: Janelle Monae's "Tightrope", M.I.A.'s "Born Free", Treme's Musical Gender Gap, Fat Girl, Southern Comfort