• Amy Pascal, the chief of Sony studios, gave a fantastic interview to Forbes's Dorothy Pomerantz. Indiewire's Women in Hollywood blog has some of the most trenchant excerpts, including this one, on female characters in film: "They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter." [Women in Hollywood]
If you subscribe to Bitch magazine, your copy should be in your mailbox or swiftly making its way there. For everyone else, our new issue Micro/Macro is available to buy online today. We chose five articles from the issue to post online for free—check them out and feel free to buy the whole issue!
FROM MICRO/MACRO:
• All Hail the Queen: Writer Tamara Winfrey Harris digs into race, womanhood, and perceptions of Beyonce's feminism in article that friend-of-Bitch Cheryl Strayed called, "So wise, perceptive, deep and dead on it made my heart thump." It features the great portrait of Beyonce seen above by artist Irana Douer.
• Sized Up: Anna Mollow—the co-editor of Sex and Disability—explains why fatness is a queer and feminist issue.
• Gaming the System:Fans have pushed for better and more female characters in video games, but some of the most promising game ideas are dead on arrival.
•Written Off: Black female screenwriters have penned some amazing films, but are routinely ignored by the Academy Awards.
I wrote recently, on Twitter, that I was getting the word “feminist” tattooed on my ass. I was only joking, but I might as well have been serious. It’s true that in all the most important things I am—mother, writer, hiker, wife, daughter, seeker—feminism is at the center. It’s a descriptor so clear and permanent it seems to me it’s inked on my ass whether it’s literally there or not. I’ve been a feminist since before I knew what a feminist was. It’s an indelible part of my identity and it informs everything I do.
Have you been looking for a body-positive magazine written by feminist, queer-friendly women who don't take themselves too seriously? Welcome to Ms. Fit. [Autostraddle]
Ok, we're still talking about it cause it's so ridiculous. Female athletes have been out for decades: and here's a timeline to prove it. [BuzzFeed]
• Top WNBA draft pick Brittney Griner has been in the news a ton lately, but not because she's gay. Autostraddle discusses her graceful, casual acknowledgment of her identity, and, well, we love this girl: "Don't worry about what other people are going to say, because they're always going to say something." [Autostraddle]
Goodmorning everyone! Here's a sample of the news we've been reading at the Bitch HQ.
Were you told in school that if you took birth control, your mother probably hates you? Well the high schoolers at George Washington High were, and this one rad student spoke out. [Think Progress]
The new Dove ad: some love it, some hate it. It's certainly not without its problems, and this feminist blogger explains why. [Jazzy Little Drops]
To add insult to injury, this one trans woman in Georgia that was incarcerated for allegedly exposing her breasts in public was placed and harassed in the men’s ward. Unfortunately this story happens all the time, but it’s still one worth reading. [Advocate]
If you're in New Jersey today and tomorrow, you’re in luck! Why? Because there’s a conference happening at Rutgers University on Trans Politics and Strategies for Social Change. [Institute for Research on Women]
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