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Tell Us Your Favorite Feminist Twitters!

Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on November 4, 2011 - 2:49pm; tagged Twitter.

The Short: Leave us comments with your favorite feminist/Bitch related Twitter accounts!

The Long: We're putting together feminist Twitter reccomendations for our readers. There's no way our high-tech-feminist-radar-supercomputer could find all of the good Twitters, so we need your help! We want writers, blogs, media producers, personalities (Feminist Hulk, anyone?) or anyone that you think might be of interest to our other readers. We'll feed all of your submissions back into the supercomputer, along with some submissions of our own, press "enhance" and then we'll have our very own (very rough) reader-collaborative guide to Twitter!

Get the submissions rolling!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on November 4, 2011 - 2:45pm; tagged 7 billion, Barack Obama, birth control, family planning, graphic novel.

The blogs will never stop!

Feministe points us to a New York Times piece on the 7 billion-person milestone and the importance of birth control...
...and the Crunk Feminist Collective reminds us that the majority of consumption is done by the western world, not by "brown people" in population-dense countries.
The XX factor looks at a NY Times article about the "decline" of Southern manners that completely glosses over the whole aspect of race.
Racialicious tackles the problematic subject matter in Craig Thompson's new graphic novel Habib i.
Check out Muslimah Media Watch's new home at the Patheos blogs.
Transgriot looks at Barack Obama's admira ble work on transgender issues—and celebrates 3 million hits!
Choices takes some time to look at how the Mississippi personhood would affect everyone if voted in next Tuesday.

Let us know what you think or what you've been reading in the comments down below!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on October 28, 2011 - 12:26pm; tagged gender-neutrality, girl scouts, native appropriation, romantic industrial complex.

Spooky times, y'all.

Ms. Magazine speaks with Samhita Mukhopadhyay on her book about the "romantic industrial complex"—which we also have a snazzy review of in the new issue (/horn toot).
Help make a young feminist's day and sponsor the Crunk Feminist Collective's first Feminism 101 workshop.
Dear Halloween Pocahotties and Indian warriors, Native Appropriations has an open letter for you and so does the Ironing Board Collective. (FWD:Our post on appropriation and costumes).
Unsurprisingly, Fox & Friends was douche-y about Grinnell's new gender-neutral dorms.
Transgriot kicks back and opens a box of Thin Mints after hearing that the Girl Scouts openly welcomed a trans scout.
Check out the NY Times piece on Lynda Barry's writing workshops.
Help get this Alice Walker documentary made over at Indiegogo!
Not to mention, Portland plus-size clothing boutique Fat Fancy could use your help, too!
At Amptoons, Jeff Fecke writes "You Are Not Amber Cole's Father." Bianca Laureano discusses how "We're Still Blaming the Victim" at Media Justice.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on October 21, 2011 - 11:24am; tagged geek girl con, Kansas, movies, TMZ, trans identity, trans youth.

At the end of a long week, kick back with a couple of links, fresh off the Internet.

Jos Truitt over at Feministing, looking at the recent events in Topeka, Kansas, reminds us how the police really don't care about sexual violence.
Think Progress shakes it's head at a Fox News doctor suggesting that a transgender youth needs psychological evaluation.
Racialicious asks "why do so many TV fans hate black woman characters?"
Colorlines talks with Sundance fave director Dee Dee about her experiences of coming out.
Jarrah at Gender Focus recaps the Geek Girl Con panel featuring the Harlem Globetrotters Dream Team of Anita Sarkeesian, Leah Wilson, Kristy Guevara Flanagan, and our own Kjerstin Johnson and Kelsey Wallace
Tiger Beatdown goes ahead and calls out the call-out culture.
Transgriot gives TMZ a lesson on style (and it has nothing to do with clothes).

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on October 14, 2011 - 12:24pm; tagged Girls Rock Camp, halloween, Slutwalk, tv.

So many links, so little time.

At Clutch, Drew-Shane Daniels asks, "Why Won't TV Networks Let Black Actors Be Great?"
African Sexualities: A Reader, a groundbreaking anthology edited by Ugandan feminist/lawyer/academic Sylvia Tamale, is out!
Love Thursday Night 'Lights? You can catch Kirthana blogging at MTV Remote Control now too!
At xo jane, s.e. smith takes on the trend of the "mental patient" Halloween costume.
A woman with a disability writes on her perspective on Slutwalk over at the Ms. Magazine blog.
...while Black Artemis feels betrayed by some members of Slutwalk.
Finally, Joyce at Collapse Board makes us all jealous with her super cool tour of girls' rock camps across the US.

Tell us what you're thinkin'/readin' in the comments below!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on October 7, 2011 - 11:50am; tagged affirmative action, economy, Feminist Economics, Ms. Magazine, racism.

Another week, another round of excellent reading.

A must-read at Crunk Feminist Collective about ongoing racism within feminism (spurred by That Sign at NYC Slutwalk)
Emily Manual writes about how trans children are portrayed sympathetically by mainstream media for Raising My Boychick.
Ms. iw in the midst of their Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction book list! (Bitch's own Andi Zeisler made #33 for Feminism and Pop Culture!)
Amanda Hess delves into the world of prostate-health awareness marketing at GOOD.
Le Tigre and MEN's JD Samson reminds everyone that even our most beloved artists are struggling financially, too.
Adrienne Keene over at Racialicious takes a big bite out of an the "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" at UC Berkeley last week (and makes better jokes about it than that one).
Pursuit of Harpyness takes time to remember two pivotal social leaders whose obituaries you may not have read this week.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on September 30, 2011 - 12:08pm; tagged Everett Maroon, Mindy Kaling, Sugar Hill Records.

Another week, another round of blogs to read!

Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency were featured on a French blog this week (translated version sans video ici)!
Miss "Grey's Rounds"? Everett Maroon is recapping Grey's Anatomy at his site, Trans/plant/portation.
I'm planning on taking the weekend off reading stories from Mindy Kaling's new book into the mirror and pretending they're mine.
Hey, Gene Lyons, thanks to your racist, sexist rebuttal to Dr. Melissa Harris Perry this week, someone's made a handy flowchart for whether or not you should compare someone you disagree with to the KKK.
FNX: First Nations Experience, a "new multimedia platform featuring authentic voices and stories reflecting the reality of the Native American experience and that of indigenous peoples worldwide," launched in Southern California this week on KVCR, with plans to expand within a year.
RIP Sylvia Robinson, rap record producer and R&B singer. Robinson produced the groundbreaking "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang and "The Message" by Grandmaster Flesh and the Furious Five.
You're Welcome says thanks, but no thanks to comparing being trans to being fat, or being gay to being black, or other identity comparisons.

Tell us what you think or share your favorite posts of the week in the comments!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on September 23, 2011 - 2:33pm; tagged comic books, Detroit, First Nations, Native Americans, On Our Radar, Reel Grrls, Troy Davis.

My, what a week.

Still reeling from the murder of Troy Davis? Check out "10 things anyone can do to help exonerate innocent people and prevent wrongful convictions" from The Innocence Project, and continue the fight for justice.
The first post in a series on queer identity and gaming is up at Yin Soaked Boy.
Have you been reading BFP's excellent series on Detroit at Feministe? The latest is on Rick Snyder's welfare cuts and going beyond "Capitalism."
Attention non-Native rock bands, fashionistas, hipsters, or anyone that feels the need to wear "tribal" wear, Media Indigena has a letter for you. And at Native Appropriations, Adrienne takes a tour through Urban Outfitters' "Navajo" obsession (behold, the "Navajo hipster panty"), and includes a sample of the cease and desist letter the Navajo Nation Attorney General sent UO several months ago.
Laura Hudson at Comics Alliance shows how DC's "rebooted" Starfire and Cat Woman aren't sexually liberated superheroines, it's just more of the same old T&A.
Shadow and Act has some excerpts from reviews of forthcoming Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, which racebends Brontë's novel to feature a black Heathcliff who deals with race as well as class struggle.
Hey, Seattle-area readers! Do you remember Reel Grrls, the nonprofit that Comcast almost defunded? Well they're having a screening showing student made films about—what else—media justice.

Let us know what you think in the comments, and tell us what's on YOUR radar!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on September 19, 2011 - 11:06am; tagged abortion, eye taping, HPV, HPV vaccine, On Our Radar.

Phew, what a weekend! Why don't you kick back, relax and read some of our favorite posts from the Internet from last week with this special On Our Radar, Special Monday edition!

Get ready to toss some rice and shed some tears because Kevin Keller, the first openly homosexual member of Archie comics' Riverdale Gang, is being joined in matrimony next January.
Minh-ha T. Pham writes about the discomforting and not-so-new phenomenon of eye taping to appear "Asian."
Remapping Debate horrifies everyone with the simple statistics about constricting abortion regulation in the US.
Cartoon Movement calms everyone down by educating us about the other side of the war on women's health.
Alex Vesey sits down and reads Record Collecting for Girls so you don't have to.
Lena Chen tells us that dating her just because you have an Asian fetish is definitely a dealbreaker (bonus points if you read guest blogger Garland Grey's dealbreaker).
Amy Rebecca Klein kindly points us to a letter from a man to a woman, telling her that no, she is not crazy.
The Feminist Peace Network fill us in on some points we might not have thought about regarding the HPV vaccine debacle.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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Bitch HQ post by Mac Pogue on September 9, 2011 - 3:12pm; tagged Asian women, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, gender, Nepal, On Our Radar, Oprah Winfrey.

Hey everyone, take it easy with some of these fine links, hand-picked from all over the web.

Caitlin Boston gives us some pretty concrete pointers on how to hit on not harass an Asian girl.
Feministe dances a jig over Nepal's landmark gender legislation.
Attention students and academics! Of Another Fashion, a Tumblr started by Threadbared's Minh-ha Pham to archive the overlooked fashion of American women of color, is now available on the academic search engine WorldCat.
Gamepro doesn't buy the "but no one was supposed to read that" defense after a slur slips into a popular game's code.
The Huffington Post's fair Canadian branch calls out a supposedly "ethical" pro-oil ad campaign on Oprah's TV network.
Fbomb reminds us that this whole Dominique Strauss-Kahn ordeal is still bad news.
The Pursuit of Harpyness decided that her boss is so awesome she deserves her own tribute.
The XX Factor slap their forehead after reading a psychological study that thinks sex hormones influence your fetus' future career.

Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

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