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Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on June 10, 2011 - 1:01pm; tagged Allied Media Conference, anti-racism, Comedy, comics, fathers, Glenn Beck, Jane Lynch, QUILTBAG, riot grrrl, taxes, trans, websites.

Another week, another collection of web adventures.

  • ColorLines shares responses to the claim of a "post-racial society."
  • At TransGriot, Monica reports on an anti-trans* "bathroom bill" in Maine. If you're a Maine citizen, check the link at the end to see how you can help.
  • Bitch contributor Sarah Jaffe unpacks the impacts the Bush tax cuts have had for their tenth anniversary at AlterNet.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle's blog wants a Hangover cure.
  • The Crunk Feminist Collective examines Kreayshawn's success and appropriation.
  • Are you near Detroit (or stoked to travel)? Check out the Allied Media Conference 2011 on June 23-26!
  • Bitch contributor Jarrah Hodge lists some of her favorite websites at Gender Focus.
  • The Times gives their two cents about the enduring influence of Riot Grrrl.
  • Feministing rounds up the paternalistic responses to Steven Levitt's already alarming statement, "If the answer is that I wouldn’t want my daughter to do it, then I don’t mind the government passing a law against it."
  • AfterEllen talks about Jane Lynch hosting the Emmys this fall. Will you be tuning in?
  • Debbie Reese at American Indians in Children's Literature looks at Census data and the effects of not having "American Indian" as a preset option.
  • Queerty wants to know your take on the treatment of Kevin, the openly gay character in Archie comics.
  • Shakesville passes on the news about Glenn Beck's next project: essentially a YouTube channel. Good riddance!

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On Our Radar

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on June 3, 2011 - 2:27pm; tagged chocolate, condoms, Eve Ensler, Facebook, gender, homophobia, police brutality, privilege, QUILTBAG, racism, rape, science fiction, soccer, wtf?.

Bringing you fine, feminist work from around the web!

  • Bitch YA Blogger Jessica Stites follows up on police response to Ms.' petition demanding they apologize for having a woman who reported her rape fined.
  • Queerty shares a video and list, "Just In Case You Forgot Why The Family Research Council Is A Hate Group."
  • Monica at TransGriot provides a history lesson about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. (Trigger warning for discussion of racism and physical violence.)
  • Bitch contributor Sady Doyle reports on Friday's protest of last week's shameful "not guilty" verdict at the Raw Story.
  • Shakesville's Melissa McEwan comments on the latest fail by the New York Times. (Quotable: "This column smells like barf.")
  • Tom at Original Plumbing talks about the Lambda Literary Awards and being an out artist.
  • Check out V-Girls' latest project: collecting photo, video and text submissions for the I Am an Emotional Creature workshops they'll be leading with Eve Ensler in South Africa.
  • The Guardian reports on author Naipaul's eyeroll-inducing insistence that no woman could write as well as him.
  • Feministe's Clarisse gives us the rundown on feminist sci-fi awards!
  • Bitch contributor Emily Manuel blurbs about the "fauxtreversy" around baby Storm's biological sex being a secret and the "imposing their ideology" accusation at Tiger Beatdown.
  • At AlterNet, Laura Rena Murray explains the wrongheaded practice of police pointing to condom-carrying as evidence of being a sex worker... and the oft-dismissed bill that would prevent it.
  • Mother Jones reports on the FIFA soccer scandal.
  • WTF? Feministing discusses Cadbury's new ad, which compares Naomi Campbell and a chocolate bar.

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Calling All Publishing Interns!

Bitch HQ post by Brian Frank on June 2, 2011 - 12:43pm; tagged internships, publishing.
We've got a publishing internship opening on the business side of Bitch in early July at our Portland office and would LOVE it if you could help us spread the word (or apply)! We're accepting applications now, and will be doing interviews later this month on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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On Our Radar

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on May 27, 2011 - 1:34pm; tagged black film, book reviews, college, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Facebook, feminist blogosphere, identity politics, interviews, jokes, links, marriage equality, On Our Radar, police brutality, QUILTBAG, sexuality, tv, victim-blaming.

Friday is linkday!

  • Bitch Leadership Council member and Feminist Coming Out Day organizer Lena Chen shares her experiences writing a popular sex blog as a college student on Salon.
  • RH Reality Check passes on a video of parents of a killed gay soldier speaking out for marriage equality in Minnesota.
  • Marcia Herring evaluates Degrassi's surprisingly (and infuriatingly) poor recent address of date rape at Feministing and Bitch Flicks.
  • Bitch contributor Alyx Vesey reviews BrassBastardz' Timeline for Scratched Vinyl.
  • HuffPo discusses the argument of whether Facebook postings can constitute fireable offenses.
  • Over at Jezebel, Dodai Stewart talks about those ridiculous "Are white people being discriminated against?" polls and shares a powerful clip from the upcoming documentary, Dark Girls, about being black with dark skin in the USA.
  • Also at Jezebel, Jenna Sauers reports on Miley Cyrus' recent tweets against Urban Outfitters' anti-gay politics and knock-off fashions.
  • Mounia talks about the media's continued depiction of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the victim on Feministe. ColorLines rounds up the implicit messages of this coverage.
  • Also at ColorLines, Thoai Lu reports on a shocking incident by the D.C. Metro Police against an elder in a wheelchair. Trigger warning for video and description of physical violence.
  • Bitch contributor Jarrah Hodge reviews Feminism for Real, which is now for sale at Bitch Mart, for her blog, Gender Focus.
  • Bitch contributor Emily Manuel talks about that Rapture that didn't happen, and why we're compelled to joke about it, at GlobalComment.
  • AfterEllen gives us the news on The United States of Tara and Nurse Jackie. Preview: Only one of these shows is getting another season.
  • Cross-posted at Her Blueprint and Racialicious, Simba Russeau writes of Algerian activist Randa and her book of interviews, Memoirs of Randa the Trans.
  • Also at Racialicious: "No, Joan Walsh, racial criticism does not equal 'identity politics.'"

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On Our Radar

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on May 20, 2011 - 12:49pm; tagged Bechdel Test, civil rights, coming out, environmentalism, It Gets Better, oppression, ORIGINAL PLUMBING, QUILTBAG, Roseanne, Tegan and Sara, trans identity, vibrators, victim-blaming.

Links, links, links!

  • Salon explores the implications of the fate of the Wonder Woman show described in Jennifer K. Stuller's podcast. (Spoiler alert: It's not going to air.)
  • Muslimah Media Watch writes of Arab women and democracy.
  • ColorLines speaks of CNN anchor Don Lemon's coming-out (good for him!) and their hopes that analysis of the intersection of racism and homophobia will go further.
  • In the gross-but-perhaps-unsurprising file: ColorLines also discusses Ron Paul's stance against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Meanwhile, Mother Jones compiles his "15 Most Extreme Positions."
  • In better news, Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen provides numbers indicating increasing support for QUILTBAG rights, even in conservative circles, for HuffPo.
  • Liz of Our Turn proposes a Bechdel Test for politics.
  • On AlterNet, Bitch contributor Brittany Shoot interviews Will Potter on his new book about the law's disproportionate punishments for environmental activists like himself.
  • TransGriot shares author Janet Mock's "It Gets Better" video.
  • Bitch contributor s.e. smith unpacks the victim-blaming media surrounding the leader of the International Monetary Fund's arrest for sexual assault on Tiger Beatdown.
  • The divine Kate Harding blogs about this same IMF coverage, the media surrounding Schwarzenegger, and what it all implies about the USA's troubling confusion between consensual affairs and assault. (via AlterNet)
  • AfterEllen relates Tegan and Sara member Sara Quin's response to rapper Tyler the Creator's misogyny and homophobia.
  • Ms. speculates on why vibrators still aren't mainstream.
  • Are you in NYC? Mark your calendar for next weekend's release party for Original Plumbing's Green Issue!

Et tu?

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The Bitch High-Five: Who's Your Dream Vacation Partner?

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on May 20, 2011 - 9:19am; tagged Bitch High Five, books, Harold and Maude, Lane Kim, movies, Nancy Drew, Parks and Recreation, television, vacation.

Each month in our newsletter (sign up right here on the homepage if you haven't already!), we poll Bitch staffers and readers on their top five in different categories and posting the polls and results here on the Bitch blog. So c'mon, give us five!

poll by twiigs.com
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Bitch Wins an Utne Independent Press Award!

Bitch HQ post by Kelsey Wallace on May 19, 2011 - 10:38am; tagged Bitch HQ, Independent Press Awards, Utne Reader.
Andi, a white woman with dark hair, holds a glass award and looks at the cameraBitch Media proudly took home the Utne Independent Press Award for Social/Cultural Coverage at last night’s awards ceremony at the MPA-Association of Magazine Media’s Independent Magazine Media Conference in San Francisco. 2011 marks Bitch’s tenth Utne nomination since 1999 and first-ever win, making this honor all the more exciting. Thanks Utne!

(On the left: Andi, Bitch's editorial director, with the award after last night's ceremony.)
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New Articles from the Reverb Issue of Bitch!

Bitch HQ post by Kjerstin Johnson on May 18, 2011 - 11:04am; tagged articles, bitch magazine.

an illustration of the face of a smiling African woman. She has short hair. Two laurels, representing film prizes, frame her facean artistic, green photo of the pop star Ke$ha looking high or wasteda graphic illustration of robot with three distinctly male heads, with anti-religion symbols on his body


The next issue of Bitch magazine—the Reverb issue—is on its way to mailboxes and newsstands! We've uploaded several articles for you to read online, including a look at women in the contemporary Atheist movement ("The Unbelievers: New Atheism and the Old Boys' Club" by Victoria Bekiempis), an interview with the woman behind the sci-fi short everyone is talking about ("The Africa That I Know: a Q&A with Pumzi Director Wanuri Kahiu" by Samantha Burton), a critical look at the upsurge in booze-soaked anthems ("Party Out of Bounds: Booze, the Pleasure Principle, and Party-Girl Pop" by Gabrielle Moss), and the epic weirdness of Epic Meal Time's objectification ("Pork Underbelly" by Jessica Critcher).

But there's even more that makes the Reverb issue absolutely fabulous—it's Bitch magazine's 15-year anniversary, and we've printed three different, limited-edition covers, one of which will be landing in your mailbox! Check all three covers out here!
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On Our Radar

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on May 13, 2011 - 1:07pm; tagged Blog Roundup, book reviews, breast cancer, fairy tales, fanfiction, female scientists, gender, Lady Gaga, law, mother's day, On Our Radar, QUILTBAG, sex-positive, sluts, trans identity, web series.

Time for a blog roundup!

  • Former Bitch intern Katie Presley reviews Anuradha Roy’s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, on the Ms. blog.
  • Bitch contributor Chally writes on representing representations of feminism, saying, "when feminism becomes about defending the identity rather than doing the work, that’s when we have a big problem."
  • The Crunk Feminist Collective shares their post-Mother's Day musings.
  • Bad Reputation compares retellings of The Little Mermaid.
  • HuffPo reports on a pro-QUILTBAG church ad... and the "progressive" group that refuses to run it.
  • Bitch contributor Sady Doyle discusses H.R. 3 and so-called pro-life Democrats at Global Comment.
  • In better news, Mother Jones relates that the Navy will now perform same-sex marriages!
  • Bitch contributor Jaclyn Friedman spoke at the Boston SlutWalk; check out the video and transcript of her speech!
  • ColorLines praises the web series "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and Friends."
  • Feministe's Clarisse Thorn names her "Central Sex-Positive Feminist Ideas."
  • At Gay YA, Bitch contributor Everett Maroon talks about his goals as a trans writer. On his personal blog, he writes of Chaz Bono and the simplistic ways in which people talk about gender.
  • AfterEllen takes on a subject near and dear to the hearts of many queer web addicts: lesbian shipping wars!
  • Feminist polygamy? Katherine Butler explores the concept on AlterNet.
  • xkcd had a recent win with an edition about female scientists. Feministing reprints the "Marie Curie" comic and talks about why it's right on target.
  • Community star Ken Jeong is excerpted on Racialicious regarding Mother's Day and his wife's battle with breast cancer.
  • The new Topside Press is looking for short fiction by and/or about transgender people! Read more at their homepage.
  • Original Plumbing debuts the trailer for Nick Krieger's memoir, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender.
  • Garland unpacks Lady Gaga's "Judas" at Tiger Beatdown, including a phrase I never knew I always wanted in my life: "racy biblical slash fic."

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On Our Radar

Bitch HQ post by Deb Jannerson on May 6, 2011 - 1:43pm; tagged anti-war, Canada, death, Islam, media coverage, mother's day, movies, Parenting, Prop 8, reproductive rights, trans identity, Twitter.

Stop. Link time. (It had to be said.)

  • For RH Reality Check, Jaime Jenett bravely discusses her experiences as a non-biological lesbian parent of an ill child while enduring the daily hurt of Prop 8 stickers... and makes eloquent efforts to communicate with those who don't believe she deserves rights (reposted at AlterNet).
  • Mother Jones offers advice on how to wade through media coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
  • Jane Laplain of Questioning Transphobia talks about trans* identity and the one-word-or-two-words question... and why it matters.
  • ColorLines shares the Center for Reproductive Rights video "They're Coming for Roe."
  • Shakesville provides an open thread on the results of Canada's election.
  • Racialicious reports on the release of the book I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, edited by Maria Ebrahimji and Zahra Suratwala, and featuring writing by Muslimah Media Watch editor Fatemeh Fakhraie.
  • More feminist than Mulan? At Bitch Flicks, Whitney Mollenhauer takes notes on the film Tangled. Thoughts?
  • Bitch contributor EvMaroon writes a letter to his future child about the United States of America's history and the death of bin Laden.
  • At the Huffington Post, Stephanie Green praises the new adaptation of Jane Eyre. Have you seen it? What are your feelings?
  • Jos from Feministing presents an anti-war poem from Palestinian and US-American poet and activist, Suheir Hammad.
  • Monica at TransGriot reminds readers to make their nominations for the 2011 Black Weblog Awards by Saturday!
  • Bitch contributor Jarrah Hodge comments on Twitter culture at Gender Focus.
  • Ms. has a few suggestions on how to spend your Mother's Day weekend.
  • And speaking of mothers, check out the Mama's Day campaign, celebrating immigrant, queer, poor, and single mothers by the Strong Families initiative. Watch their great video here!

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