Blogs

Andi is the co-founder of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, Andi's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers.

She passes her non-Bitch hours watching television and embroidering portraits of dogs, often simultaneously. Her other interests include painting, walking, candy, Scrabble, and the interrobang.

Briar Levit is a graphic designer who blends her love of design with social/environmental progress. She first began working with Bitch in 2003 (starting with the Transformation and Reinvention issue). After a grad school hiatus to Central Saint Martins in London, Briar has returned to where she knows she belongs, not only as a designer, but as a feminist and pop culture junkie.

Journalist, author, teacher, mom

Mandy Van Deven is a freelance writer, the founder of the Feminist Review blog, and the Associate Editor of GirlFuture. She's worked as a community organizer and nonprofit administrator for ten years in Brooklyn and Atlanta on issues such as educational equity for low-income girls of color, reproductive and sexual health, safety, queer rights, and economic inequality. Mandy is the co-author of Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment in Schools and on the Streets and a contributing writer for the Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism, both of which will be released later this year.

Nadra Kareem is a Los Angeles-based journalist and writer. She covers race relations for About.com and Racialicious.com.